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Mrs. Johnson was one of our most important First Ladies. Quietly but firmly, she advised LBJ on rhetoric, strategy, and personal relations and helped…

— Michael Beschloss

“One genuine criticism is more precious than a thousand false praises!”

— Avijeet Das

“The little blue book was rattling around in my purse. I took it out and turned to the last thing he had said ("You…

— Joanna Russ

I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her…

— Emma Watson

In our current society, it is considered a weakness to be female and a treason to protest this. Highlighting inequality results in aggressive insults…

— Clementine Ford

“For she had a great variety of selves to call upon, far more than we have been able to find room for, since a…

— Virginia Woolf

Now in reality, the world has paid too great a compliment to critics, and has imagined them to be men of much greater profundity…

— Henry Fielding

[Samuel] Johnson's conversation was by much too strong for a person accustomed to obsequiousness and flattery; it was mustard in a young child's mouth!

— Hester Lynch Piozzi

You know, you can't always criticize without somebody being at the end of the stick. And she perhaps did not always grant credit to…

— William A. Rusher

“How are you to get up the sympathies of the audience in a legitimate manner, if there isn't a little man contending against a…

— Charles Dickens

“Instead of making history and electing the first woman President, they now had to face a stinging rebuke and come to terms with the…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“One tiny stain on a woman’s reputation was as bad as a lifetime of debauchery.”

— Elizabeth Charles