Alive Quote by Anna Maxwell Martin

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance…

— Tamsin Egerton

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened…

— Alessandra Stanley

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

It was strange to think that all the great women of fiction were, until Jane Austen's day, not only seen by the other sex,…

— Virginia Woolf

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard…

— Julie Walters

The great thing about Jane Austen - the reason we're all still obsessed with her - is that she gets inside a woman's mind…

— Jennifer Coolidge

“Austen's works have endured because she had a superb narrative technique and a gift for creating characters who feel as real as life itself.…

— Syrie James

“Jane Austen did not become one of the most renowned authors in the English language by having her characters dye their armpit hair and…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

Jane Austen has often been praised as a natural historian. She is a naturalist among tame animals. She does not study men (as Dostoevsky…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

I know what the attitudes of the readers are: These are guys who love women and respect women.

— Christie Hefner