Quote by Carol Shields

“Women were different from men in such matters. Was it that they were, instead of more sensitive, as reputed, more callous, and less romantic…

— Thomas Hardy

“She was convinced that women were as often victims of themselves as they were of men.”

— John Irving

“Women: i liked the color of their clothing; the ay they alked; the cruelty in some faces; now and then the almost pure beauty…

— Charles Bukowski

“We began our stories. Her face changed as most women’s do when they listen to their men: from amusement to horror to incomprehensibility.”

— Stephen Tobolowsky

“Women brought life but the most important origin stories spoke the real truth, which was that women more often brought death.”

— Nnedi Okorafor

“So often we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happens in the main room, in the kitchen,…

— Lisa See

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“It is well known that women outlive men; could it merely be superior vanity that keeps them going?”

— Truman Capote

“Besides, women were better suited to bear sorrow than men.”

— Oscar Wilde

“Unlike women, men weren’t emotional creatures who easily revealed their every intimate thought and sentiment like women did.”

— E.N. Joy

“Where men brushed me aside and ignored my requests, talents and opinions, women strapped on armor and waged war. Men barely acknowledged my efforts.…

— Rachel Higginson

“The part of the tradition that I knew best was mostly written (or rewritten for children) in England and northern Europe. The principal characters…

— Ursula K. Le Guin