Astounded Quote by Doris Lessing

[The Golden Notebook] was not a trumpet for Women's Liberation. It described many female emotions of aggression, hostility, resentment. It put them into print.…

— Doris Lessing

'The Notebook' is one of my favorite love stories.

— Taylor Schilling

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite…

— Nora Ephron

'The Notebook' was beautiful, and I was crying because its hero and heroine had died together.

— R. Kelly

“Meantime, other “feminist bibles”had appeared, Simone de Beauvoir’s The Second Sex being the best. Which brings me to something no one believes. When I…

— Doris Lessing

And people tended not to bother a woman with a book.

— Cherie Priest

The big takeaway I got from 'Thelma & Louise' was the reaction of women who had seen the movie being so profound, so different.…

— Geena Davis

People like [Memoirs of a Woman Doctor], whether young people, young women, even critics - male critics - they were not shocked by it.…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I honestly don't remember the book well enough to register any surprise about anything. I don't remember anything being shocking to me.

— Jeff Tweedy

I had been fed, in my youth, a lot of old wives' tales about the way men would instantly forsake a beautiful woman to…

— Dorothy Parker

When I was a kid and going to the movies I was overwhelmed by the way women were always second-class citizens in the film.

— Brit Marling

I don't think my book is any more shocking than if I went out right now and brought back your local newspaper and found…

— Donald Ray Pollock