Book Quote by Florence King

“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

Who is it can read a woman?

— William Shakespeare

“A woman at one of mother's parties once said to me, "Do you like reading?" which smote us all to silence, for how could…

— Rachel Ferguson

She had always been a reader… but now she was obsessed. Since her discovery of the book hoard downstairs from her job, she’d been…

— Louise Erdrich

“Oh, reading! There is something singularly unattractive about a woman reading a book, I always think. Hunched and squinting in a corner while everyone…

— Kate Riordan

“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to…

— Rebecca Solnit

My only books Were woman's looks,- And folly 's all they 've taught me.

— Charles Lamb

She wondered if literature might lose some of its interest when she reached an age or state of mind where her life was set…

— Charles Frazier

It was at this time that she entirely gave up on reading. The covers of books looked like coffins to her, either shabby or…

— Alice Munro

“She herself was a victim of that lust for books which rages in the breast like a demon, and which cannot be stilled save…

— Robertson Davies

“I should have never taught you girls to read! I suspect you have been reading the Bible behind my back-that is enough to fill…

— Anne Fortier

My only books were woman's looks, and folly's all they've taught me.

— Anonymous