Women Quote by Bertrand Russell

Every housemaid expects at least once a week as much excitement as would have lasted a Jane Austen heroine throughout a whole novel.

— Bertrand Russell

“...all the great issues in human life make their appearance on Jane Austen's narrow stage. True, it's only the stage of petty domestic circumstance,…

— ian watt

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

— Julie Walters

All my life I thought that the story was over when the hero and heroine were safely engaged -- after all, what's good enough…

— Mary Ann Shaffer

“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

“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man of her…

— P.D. James

“How to explain the sheer tingling joy one experiences when two interesting, complex, and occasionally aggravating characters have at last settled their misunderstandings and…

— Margaret C. Sullivan

Jane Austen was writing about boring people with desperately limited lives. We forget this because we've seen too many of her books on screen.

— Mark Haddon

“I felt like a Jane Austen heroine all of a sudden, confusedly looking on at all the people she loves, their myriad unpredictable couplings…

— Julie Powell

Jane Austen we know never let two men converse alone in any novel because what they said would be unknown to her.

— Jane Gardam

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

“The late John Gardner once said that there are only two plots in all of literature. You go on a journey or a stranger…

— Mary Morris