Energy Quote by Anna Hope

Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous…

— Dale Spender

“Reading is an intimate act, perhaps more intimate than any other human act. I say that because of the prolonged (or intense) exposure of…

— Harold Brodkey

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated.…

— Jane Austen

“The energy that rapes and pillages women, and the world, and doesn’t see the long term, is an unbalanced, penetrating, aggressive male energy. It’s…

— Laura Dodsworth

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality…

— Alfred Bester

Who is it can read a woman?

— William Shakespeare

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

— Madame de Stael

A well-read woman is a dangerous creature.

— Lisa Kleypas

“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who are products…

— Adrienne Rich

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

Reading is like breathing. If you take it away, first I become antsy, then violent.

— Robert Jordan

... there is a lightness about the feminine mind--a touch and go--music, the fine arts, that kind of thing--they should study those up to…

— George Eliot