Able Quote by Eliza Leslie

“A humour of reading books, except those of devotion or housewifery, is apt to turn a woman's brain... All affectation of knowledge beyond what…

— Jonathan Swift

“I'm afraid, Belle, that being a lady is more than proper clothes. It is an attitude. From your...experience, you may know more of business…

— Donald McCaig

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

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas

You can tell when women have a sensibility about, or a sense of bravery or a sense of understanding about their personal style that's…

— Jacob Hashimoto

“Womenfolks have powerful imaginations when it comes to a man, an’ she can read things into him he never knew was there, and like…

— Louis L'Amour

“Of the numerous regrettable elements that go to make up the unlawful carnal-knowledge industry, I should single out for distinction the look of undisguised…

— Christopher Hitchens

I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had…

— Lydia M. Child

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

— Kate Zambreno

“She has a fine genius for poetry, combined with real business earnestness, and "goes in"--to use an expression of Alfred's--for Woman's mission, Woman's rights,…

— Charles Dickens

“The ability of women is not acknowledged; indeed, it is concealed. Wise women pretend that all they are doing is running a household when…

— Phillippa Gregory

She was widely read enough to appreciate my literary wit but not so widely read that she knew my sources. I like that in…

— David Mitchell