Books Quote by Helen McCrory

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

There is this giant void in the culture about women in that age group as heroines, as romantic beings, as sexual beings and as…

— Naomi Wolf

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

— Virginia Woolf

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers don't address it these days, but it doesn't change the fact.

— Betty White

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

— Edna Longley

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

I think older women still have a full life. Maybe the writers dont address it these days, but it doesnt change the fact.

— Betty White

I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

— Terry Pratchett

I'd always read omnivorously and often thought much literary fiction is read by young men and women in their 20s as substitutes for experience.

— Neil Cross

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

— Phyllis Rose

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about…

— Olympia Dukakis