Books Quote by Camille Paglia

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only…

— Miranda July

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks why there…

— David Gilmour

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the…

— Maya Rodale

“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”

— Joanna Russ

One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in…

— Erin Belieu

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself…

— Ray Bradbury

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books.

— Paul Auster