Bacchus Quote by Hilda Doolittle

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most…

— Honore de Balzac

“Seeing the woman as she was made them remember the envy they had stored up from other times. so they chewed up the back…

— Zora Neale Hurston

“I come for the woman,” the Comanche repeated, never taking his gaze from her. “And I bring my finest horses to console her father…

— Catherine Anderson

“Women seemed to him to be in possession of all kinds of undesirable properties, chiefly madness.”

— Kate Atkinson

“From "Her Kind" I have found the warm caves in the woods, filled them with skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks, innumerable goods; fixed the…

— Anne Sexton

“In normal circumstances a lovely young woman alone would have thought of nothing else; the whole edifice of female government is based on that…

— Virginia Woolf

Madame Bovary and a flying carpet, they are both untrue in the same way. Somebody made them up.

— Salman Rushdie

“The One God fashioned women to expose the elements men are made of" said Queen Nefertiti.”

— Naguib Mahfouz

“My wife's name was Mala. The marriage had been arranged by my older brother and his wife. I regarded the proposition with neither objection…

— Jhumpa Lahiri

“She was a Victorian girl; a girl of the days when men were hard and top-hatted and masculine and ruthless and girls were gentle…

— Angela Carter

“Who is this woman who took on the Emporer Barbarosa, comparing him to an infant and a madman, and threatened that God’s sword would…

— Matthew Fox

“imagine the desert mothers, with hair tangled tighter than their theology and breasts that flowed milk and mystic wisdom. they knew how to draw…

— Beth Morey