Art Quote by Jan Avgikos

“Female forms of exquisite grace and beauty began to mingle in his mental adventures; nor was he long without looking abroad to compare the…

— Walter Scott

“I thought about writing the character as male, but then I would be forced to portray him as a woman in a man's body.”

— Chris Stocking

“figure full of the affluent beauty of womanhood in its prime, bearing unmistakable marks of the polished pupil of the world in the grace…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“She was beautiful. Not despite her so-called flaws but because of them—those scrapes and life experiences that made her body like no other woman’s.…

— Ray Smith

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

“He managed to make his request with the minimum of time given to speculating what she looked like naked, forgiving himself for the instant…

— Elizabeth George

“We began our stories. Her face changed as most women’s do when they listen to their men: from amusement to horror to incomprehensibility.”

— Stephen Tobolowsky

“It would take a denial of all cultural tradition for women to produce even a true 'female' art. For a woman who participates in…

— Shulamith Firestone

Her beauty might fascinate men, but it was difficult to charm them when she stood mute. . . .

— Michelle Moran

“The voices of the women had the especially sweet and rapturous charm of a gentle stroke passing over the surface of one’s skin.”

— Jeff VanderMeer

“Masculine desire is as much an offence as it is a compliment; in so far as she feels herself responsible for her charm, or…

— Simone de Beauvoir