Ambition Quote by Jean Stafford

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

— Anton Chekhov

“I started writing to get women, or rather a particular woman, and I continue writing because it’s now a compulsion.”

— Jarod Kintz

“Sometimes she narrates her actions inside her head in third-person. Does that make her a writer or a woman?”

— Kate Zambreno

“No woman has ever written enough.”

— bell hooks

“You can critique her writing, but not her lifestyle.”

— Lisi Harrison

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“You'll never be able to silence the woman who was born to write.”

— Melody Lee

“Man is always trying to create a woman who will fill his needs, and that makes her untrue to herself.”

— Anaïs Nin

“She read every author she could get her hands on who wrote a strong female protagonist who triumphed in the end.”

— Wendy Wax

“And reading this way - with no deadline, no agenda - she remembered why she loved literature so much. It was like fucking a…

— Emily Maguire

“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

“But perhaps one day I will be entrusted with daughters of my own, and if so, I swear I will not see their minds…

— Geraldine Brooks