Books Quote by Anonymous

“One could not but play for a moment with the thought of what might have happened if Charlotte Brontë had possessed say three hundred…

— Virginia Woolf

“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not…

— Erin Blakemore

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”

— Virginia Woolf

“This book is for women trying to find their "right"place, when so much they have had faith in has let them down.”

— D. Adiba

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Literature is mostly about having sex and not having children. Life is the other way around”

— David Lodge

“People will point to books written about women, by men, and books written by women, and say, ‘Tell me, what is the difference?’ The…

— Shireen Dodson

“in favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.”

— Harper Lee

“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is…

— Jean Stafford

“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious…

— Virginia Woolf

“I suspect that Jane Austen's practice of denying herself the aid of figurative language which, as much as any of her other habits of…

— Mary Lascelles

“A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who…

— Margaret Mitchell