Binding Quote by James Parton

“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

“The Woman Poet // Die Dichterin You hold me now completely in your hands. My heart beats like a frightened little bird's Against your…

— Gertrud Kolmar

“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

“When he describes woman, each writer discloses his general ethics and the special idea he has of himself; and in her he often betrays…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Life, it has been agreed by everyone whose opinion is worth consulting, is the only fit subject for novelist or biographer; life, the same…

— Virginia Woolf

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance; very various;…

— Virginia Woolf

“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 shall be poets! When woman's unmeasured bondage shall be broken, when she shall live for and through herself, man--hitherto detestable--having let her go,…

— Arthur Rimbaud

“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

“In all ages woman has been the source of all that is pure, unselfish, and heroic in the spirit and life of man.....poetry and…

— Anonymous

“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who are products…

— Adrienne Rich