Contrast Quote by Flora Tristan

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing.

— Edna Longley

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

— Erica Jong

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“Who says great literatue has to be written by men? Who says great literature has to be about scary, creepy stuff like adulterers being…

— Anna Quindlen

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Naomi Wolf

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

“Miss Austen’s novels … seem to me vulgar in tone, sterile in artistic invention, imprisoned in the wretched conventions of English society, without genius,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the…

— Virginia Woolf

Slavery is the parent of ignorance, and ignorance begets a whole brood of follies and vices; and every one of these is inevitably hostile…

— Hinton Rowan Helper