Biographies Quote by Catherine Drinker Bowen

“History may well be a series of stories we tell about the past, but the stories are not just any stories. They're not chosen…

— Thomas King

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was…

— Alison Weir

Like many rich men, he thought in anecdotes; like many simple women, she thought in terms of biography.

— Anita Brookner

We all draw inspiration from women whose names make the headlines and whose stories are in the history books, but often our greatest inspiration…

— A'Lelia Bundles

autobiography at least saves a man or woman that the world is curious about from the publication of a string of mistakes called 'Memoirs.

— George Eliot

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as…

— Virginia Woolf

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

— Kate Zambreno

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of…

— H. W. Brands

“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