Advantage 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

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen…

— 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

“Perhaps I shall. Yes, yes, if you please, no reference to examples in books. Men have had every advantage of us in telling their…

— Jane Austen

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

“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

“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

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

“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

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 much more than men in touch with their emotional intelligence. That explains why women read fiction books while men stick to the…

— M.Z.Riffi

“There are more similarities between the writing of men and women than there are differences. Aren't we all just trying to tell stories? How…

— Roxanne Gay