Elizabethan Quote by Ben Kingsley

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

— John Irving

Shakespeare writes such wonderful parts for women, parts that work so well today. I think he really liked women.

— Geraldine James

“... All who have brought about a state of sex-consciousness are to blame, and it is they who drive me, when I want to…

— Virginia Woolf

There's something about doing Shakespeare with a single gender, whether it is all-male or all-female, that opens up certain possibilities. You are able to…

— Phyllida Lloyd

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless,…

— Ellen Terry

Shakespeare has great ability to skirt around a subject and portray human nature.

— Kelli O'Hara

You could argue we are a different audience today,but on the other hand what is it that makes Shakespeare great? It is that he…

— Sam Wanamaker

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

— Virginia Woolf

I wouldn't call myself a modern Shakespeare, but Shakespeare was probably to his generation what I am to mine.

— Zach Braff

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than…

— Julia Stiles

There are a lot of theories about Shakespeare.

— Christina Ricci