Book Quote by Jane Austen

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs,…

— Jane Austen

“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

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

“You must go around the states lecturing to women. And the inoffensive writers who've never dared lecture anyone, let alone women-they are frightened of…

— Dylan Thomas

“Women must find their own answer. That’s the important thing. I’m no longer interested in books about women written by men. Even if I…

— Marguerite Duras

“Yet if women are so flighty, fickle, changeable, susceptible, and inconstant (as some clerks would have us believe), why is it that their suitors…

— Christine de Pizan

A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't…

— Charlotte Bronte

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought…

— Colm Toibin

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

Women are books, and men the readers be...

— Benjamin Franklin

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian