Women In Literature Quotes
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Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,
they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
they are better critics than authors. — Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington
The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.
— Phyllis Rose
The most difficult thing for a wise woman to do is to pretend to be a foolish one.
— W. Somerset Maugham
The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."
— Kate Zambreno
So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.
— Zora Neale Hurston
I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.
— Edna Longley
Anything could happen in the company of a woman whose usual status is 'apparition'.
— Margot McCuaig
A man kills enough. A woman keeps on walking.
— Marie Clements
Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it.
— Sahndra Fon Dufe
I have such an intense pride of sex that the triumphs of women in art, literature, oratory, science, or song rouse my enthusiasm as nothing else can.
— Elizabeth Cady Stanton
The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.
— James Dickey
Transgender women do not think of themselves as men wearing women's clothing, they ARE women.
— Cheryl B. Evans
I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.
— Siri Hustvedt
Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.
— Germaine Greer
A woman writer, quitting love before literature when love lets her down, will put literature before love.
— Doris Lessing
There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.
— Marguerite Duras
Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.
— Germaine Greer
Just so long as all our literature is pervaded with the thought that women are inferior, so long will our sex be held in a low estimate.
— Lillie Devereux Blake
She said she had learnt one thing from Balzac: that a woman's beauty is a treasure beyond price.
— Dai Sijie
Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.
— Germaine Greer
I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster.
— Mohsin Hamid
For some reason, people try to fill you with food when you're filled with grief. I didn't need food. I needed a reason to keep living
— Priscille Sibley
In literature, older women are not often given center stage.
— Kate Christensen
We (women) are a powerful force, but it is not our fists that propel us, it is our minds and wiles.
— Khaalidah Muhammad-Ali
There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.
— Fatema Mernissi
in literature. Neither of them minded women
— Robert Galbraith
We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.
— Okky Madasari
I feel like elements of race and identity and ethnicity are sort of missing in all of literature, not just in women's literature.
— Cristina Henriquez
In a time when women were almost silent or invisible in literature, Scripture affirms and celebrates women.
— Sarah Bessey