Feminism Quote by Jeanette Winterson

“They immediately spent a moment in bemused silence in honor of the perilous little paradox that was the English female”

— Julie Anne Long

“In Jane Austen it was the critical faculty that would not be quieted; and that faculty in her, played on men and women.”

— Mary Lascelles

“Yes, people of both genders pop up at events to hold forth on irrelevant things and conspiracy theories, but the out-and-out confrontational confidence of…

— Rebecca Solnit

“The conspiracy of women. We are in it together, make no mistake.”

— Colum McCann

“Silencing women silences justice.”

— DaShanne Stokes

“The allegation that English girls had no conversation must be true; but theirs was a SPEAKING silence. Their eyes and smiles were eloquent! She…

— Edith Wharton

“There is a certain kind of stupidity reserved for women's dealings with men.”

— Françoise Sagan

“Just as she was unaware of the hidden currents of politics running below the surface of College affairs, so the Scholars, for their part,…

— Philip Pullman

“It simply isn’t a woman’s nature to be silent for prolonged periods of time.”

— Maya Banks

“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

“Even the women began to see us as something so foreign to their community that nothing we said could possibly be of any relevance…

— Geraldine Brooks

“She dearly hoped her gender would not be a problem because she did not have the time to educate a man on the fine…

— Beverly Jenkins