Early love Quote by Alyxandra Harvey

“Oh, what's the good of talking about men?" cried Mary impatiently; "why, one might as well be a lady novelist or some horrid thing.…

— G.K. Chesterton

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“There was nothing particularly special about her, except that she was good with numbers, and very good at lying, and she made her home…

— Maggie Stiefvater

“She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she…

— Sarah Beth Durst

“For a moment I have the alarming thought that maybe I want heroines so I can be their best friend and loyal sidekick without…

— Samantha Ellis

“But she was too big to be a thief, too honest to be an assassin, too intelligent to be a wife, and too proud…

— Terry Pratchett

“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by…

— Joanna Russ

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“If I spoke all I think on this point, if I gave my real opinion of some first-rate female characters in first-rate works, where…

— Charlotte Brontë

“Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up.”

— Stephanie Davies

“She was truly one of the most ancient and wildest of creatures.”

— Thea Harrison

“When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed,…

— Gabrielle Zevin