Books Quote by Howard Mittelmark

“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

“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

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…

— Leslie Fiedler

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

“It never occurs to her that she will not be a writer and only occasionally does it occur to her, depressingly, that she is…

— Jean Stafford

“perhaps the sexes are more akin than people think, and the great renewal of the world will perhaps consist in one phenomenon: that man…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as…

— Virginia Woolf

“Being a woman was a trap. Something would bring you down before you turned twenty-three. The only time the world shows you any favor,…

— Heather O'Neill

“In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity—as happens when they overhear for…

— Tom Wolfe

“For men rise or fall based entirely on what the women in their lives demand of them.”

— Kim Wright

“Literature and fiction are full of femmes fatales, but there is also an homme fatal, an altogether rarer bird, and pity help the lonely…

— Mary Stewart

“You can learn a lot about the longings and generalized gender anxieties of an era by the kinds of fake women it dreams up.”

— Carina Chocano