For women, there's simply no easy way of finding some kind of fulfillment. The whole idea of going from your own world to an alien world makes sense … - Joanna Russ

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For women, there's simply no easy way of finding some kind of fulfillment. The whole idea of going from your own world to an alien world makes sense only if you're not an alien in your own world. It's very hard to feel at home here when you're not. So women either don't go into space-you're either there or here but without much traveling in between-or you came from there and now you're here, but what the hell are you doing here?