# Quote — Joanna Russ, The Female Man

> Dismissing the whole thing as the world’s aberration and not mine, I went back to bed.

- Author: [Joanna Russ](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joanna-russ.md)
- Book: [The Female Man](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joanna-russ/the-female-man.md)
- Page: 25
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Joanna_Russ#The_Female_Man_(1975)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/joanna-russ/the-female-man/dismissing-the-whole

## More from this book

> As my mother once said: The boys throw stones at the frogs in jest.
>
> But the frogs die in earnest.

p. 196 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joanna-russ/the-female-man/as-my-mother.md)

> Remember: I didn’t and don’t want to be a “feminine” version or a diluted version or a special version or a subsidiary version or an ancillary version, or an adapted version of the heroes I admire. I want to be the heroes themselves.
>
> What future is there for a female child who aspires to being Humphrey Bogart?

p. 206 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joanna-russ/the-female-man/remember-i-didnt.md)

> Remember, I don’t threaten. I don’t play. I always carry firearms. The truly violent are never without them.

p. 181 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/joanna-russ/the-female-man/remember-i-dont.md)