Climbs Quote by Gertrude Stein

“Perhaps if by chance I was seen arranging the shop window in my underpants, some lady in need of strong literary emotions would be…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“A woman should be like a great book— the kind you can’t forget, long after the last page.”

— Angelika Regossi

“I feel I owe it to the women that their stories should be told fully by us—the descendants and heirs to their very real…

— Philippa Gregory

“What if, for once in history, a woman's story could be untethered from what we need it to be in order to feel better…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the…

— Maya Rodale

“Throughout our emotional odyssey in the unembellished narrative of our life, we may sense many alluring voices that are enticing us into a beguiling,…

— Erik Pevernagie

“Sexual revelation in literature, must be tactful and must serve plot”

— Gore Vidal

“And here, of course, we come to the one occupation of a female protagonist in literature, the one thing she can do, and by…

— Joanna Russ

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”

— Virginia Woolf

“Re-vision--the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction--is for women more than…

— Adrienne Rich

“Right now she is reading Virginia Woolf, all of Virginia Woolf, book by book-She is fascinated by the idea of a woman like that,…

— Michael Cunningham

“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