Adam Quote by Geoffrey Chaucer

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Now I see the Bible as it was written: the inspired word of God, but also a historical document preserving the ancient hegemony of…

— Willie Parker

“If God meant woman to rule over man, He would have taken her out of Adam’s head. Had He designed her to be his…

— Michael O'Donnell

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

I don't think that women necessarily always write like women. I was a writer on the 'Comedy Central Roasts' for a while, and I…

— Whitney Cummings

“If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing…

— Louisa May Alcott

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

“O woman’s counsel is so often cold! A woman’s counsel brought us first to woe, Made Adam out of Paradise to go Where he…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would…

— Dilys Laing

Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of…

— William Makepeace Thackeray