I think," said my neighbour, her chin very high in the air (and still spiffed, I am glad to say) "that women who've never married and never had children have missed out on the central experiences of life. They are emotionally crippled." Now what am I supposed to say to that? I ask you. That women who've never won the Nobel Peace Prize have also experienced a serious deprivation? It's like taking candy from a baby; the poor thing isn't allowed to get angry, only catty. I said, "That's rude, and silly," and helped her to mashed potatoes. ...."You can't catch a man." "That's why I'll never be abandoned," said I. Fortunately she did not hear me. Did I say taking candy from babies? Rather, eating babies, killing babies, abandoning babies. So sad, so easy.

She died early in the morning on April 29 2011. Delany was quoted as saying that Russ was “slipping away” and had long had a “Do Not Resuscitate” order on file. Though by then Joanna Russ was no longer an active member of science fiction fandom Joanna Russ was interviewed by phone during Wiscon (the feminist science fiction convention in Madison Wisconsin) in 2006 by her friend and member of the same cohort Samuel R.

She is the author of a number of works of science fiction fantasy and feminist literary criticism such as How to Suppress Women's Writing as well as a contemporary novel On Strike Against God and one children's book Kittatinny. Joanna Russ (February 22 1937 – April 29 2011) was an American writer academic and feminist. She is best known for The Female Man a novel combining utopian fiction and satire.