Cold Quote by Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying…

— Kate Braverman

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

The soul of woman must be expansive and open to all human beings, it must be quiet so that no small weak flame will…

— Edith Stein

I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

— Madame de Stael

Women, I believe, search for fellow beings who have faced similar struggles, conveyed them in ways a reader can transform into her own life,…

— Carolyn Heilbrun

Women do not have as great a need for poetry because their own essence is poetry.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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

— Jennifer Weiner

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin I'm writing to free myself and free women from this prison. My…

— Huda Sharawi

There's two kinds of women--those you write poems about and those you don't.

— Jeffrey McDaniel

Women were naturally pure souls, on so much higher a spiritual plane to begin with than men.

— Naomi Ragen

Women are treated as unjustly in poetry as in life. The feminine ones are not idealistic, and the idealistic not feminine.

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel