James Tiptree Jr. quotes

James Tiptree Jr.

"Being, I imagine, must be very simple. It is Becoming which is so messy and which I am all for."
James Tiptree Jr.
Simple Growth Becoming
"Absolutes are absolutely dangerous."
James Tiptree Jr.
Dangerous Extremes Absolutes
"Certainly my inner world will never be a peaceful place of bloom; it will have some peace, and occasional riots of bloom, but always a little fight going on too. There is no way I can be peacefully happy in this society and in this skin. I am committed to Uneasy Street. I like it; it is my idea that this street leads to the future, and that I am being true to a way of life which is not here yet, but is more real than what is here."
James Tiptree Jr.
Real Fighting Ideas
"Passing in any crowd are secret people whose hidden response to beauty is the desire to tear it into bleeding meat."
James Tiptree Jr.
People Secret Tears
"All I can say is that laughter is my music; I would deeply suspect an argument which hadn't laughter."
James Tiptree Jr.
Laughter Argument Suspects
"You can understand why a system would seek information - but why in hell does it offer information? Why do we strive to be understood? Why is a refusal to accept communication so painful?"
James Tiptree Jr.
Communication Doe Information
"Man is an animal whose dreams come true and kill him."
James Tiptree Jr.
Dream Animal Men
"good is too often allied with vulnerability and evil with power."
James Tiptree Jr.
Evil Good And Evil Vulnerability
"I've had too many experiences in my life of being the first woman in some damned occupation."
James Tiptree Jr.
Occupation Firsts
"Evil is the voltage of good; the urge to goodness, without the potential of evil, is trivial."
James Tiptree Jr.
Evil Goodness Voltage
"Anyone who shoots a real gun at you when drunk and angry is simply not husband material, regardless of his taste in literature."
James Tiptree Jr.
Husband Real Gun
"I am one of those that always get accidentally guillotined when the Great Day of Liberation comes, because ... I guess ... I am full of parentheses. Revolutions can't abide parentheses."
James Tiptree Jr.
Great Day Revolution Liberation
"The only way I can possibly heat my so-called mind up to working temperature is to imagine I'm talking to someone I admire."
James Tiptree Jr.
Talking Mind Way
"You know, exams are like war -- the birth rate of ideas goes up. Anything to keep from this dismal regimen, says poor mind, and hopefully tosses up another distraction."
James Tiptree Jr.
War Ideas Birth Rate
"I cannot teach -- if I teach as teaching should be I become so exhausted I nearly die, I seem to have no middle gear."
James Tiptree Jr.
Teaching Gears Exhausted
"I dreamed horse and lived horse and expected, if necessary, to marry a horse; for all practical purposes I was a horse."
James Tiptree Jr.
Horse Hero Purpose
"Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects."
James Tiptree Jr.
Crazy Army Personality

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