Leaning her silly, beautiful, drunken head on my shoulder, she said, "Oh, Esther, I don't want to be a feminist. I don't enjoy it. It's no fun." "I know," I said. "I don't either." People think you decide to be a "radical," for God's sake, like deciding to be a librarian or a ship's chandler. You "make up your mind," you "commit yourself" (sounds like a mental hospital, doesn't it?). I said Don't worry, we could be buried together and have engraved on our tombstone the awful truth, which some day somebody will understand: WE WUZ PUSHED.

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.