Books Quote by Anton Chekhov

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

— Wendy Wax

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“A woman should be like a great book— the kind you can’t forget, long after the last page.”

— Angelika Regossi

“I’d been wandering about in the enchantments of romance, afflicted with the worst female curse on earth, the need to mold myself to expectations.O”

— Sue Monk Kidd

“When the feminine feels safe and at peace, everything around her blossoms. This includes the lives of the people she respects and cares for.”

— Robin S. Baker

“A female character can: Like babies, Be devoted to her lover, Cry, Be gentle, Be scared, Be uncertain, Take advice, and still be a…

— Celine Kiernan

“I thought of happy endings, how novelists usually flinched. To admit your characters are doomed means you are too.”

— Darcey Steinke

“It’s time to be a woman again whose essence is grounded in her sensual feminine identity.”

— Lebo Grand

“Mrs. Miniver suddenly understood why she was enjoying the forties so much better than she had enjoyed the thirties: it was the difference between…

— Jan Struther

“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”

— Chad Harbach

“It was a circumstance to be noted on the summer morning when our story begins its course, that the women, of whom there were…

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

“And like every ending, it was a strange mix of exuberance and sorrow.”

— Jennifer E. Smith