Books Quote by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who are products…

— Adrienne Rich

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”

— Virginia Woolf

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and”

— Virginia Woolf

“It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life--be she a genteel lady or a serving girl--might find a happier home…

— Tessa Dare

“I think that here lies the sense of literary creation: to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“The sense of literary creation is to portray ordinary objects as they will be reflected in the kindly mirrors of future times; to find…

— Vladimir Nabokov

“[Women] are conditioned to ever prove ourselves, as if our value is contingent on our ability to meet the expectations of others. As if…

— Melissa Febos

To a man who is uncorrupt and properly constituted, woman always remains something of a mystery and a romance. He never interprets her quite…

— James Parton

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

Once more I can climb about and remind you that a woman in this epoch does the important literary thinking.

— Gertrude Stein

“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by…

— Joanna Russ