Books Quote by Heather Mac Donald

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

— Otto Weininger

The persecution of genius fosters its influence.

— Tacitus

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

— Flora Tristan

It's still true that literary works by women, gays, and writers of color are often framed as specific, rather than universal, small rather than…

— Cheryl Strayed

“Neither black/red/yellow nor woman but poet or writer. For many of us, the question of priorities remains a crucial issue. Being merely "a writer"…

— Trinh T. Minh-ha

genius has no limit of sex or race.

— Olive Schreiner

It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors…

— Jesmyn Ward

“How could women ever have had genius when all possibility of accomplishing a work of genius - or just a work - was refused…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Gender consciousness has become involved in almost every intellectual field: history, literature, science, anthropology. There's been an extraordinary advance

— Clifford Geertz

The study of women's intelligence and personality has had broadly the same history as the one we record for Negroes ... in drawing a…

— Gunnar Myrdal

Women of genius commonly have masculine faces, figures and manners. In transplanting brains to an alien soil God leaves a little of the original…

— Ambrose Bierce

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen