American woman Quote by Joseph McCarthy

I first read 'Madame Bovary' in my teens or early twenties.

— Lydia Davis

Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of an Average Woman was one of those books I read in my mid-twenties that was life-changing. I think I…

— Elizabeth Peyton

Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary tale. Emma…

— Sophie Barthes

Madame Bovary is one my favorite novels. Emma Bovary will always be an enigma, but as the years pass, I feel that I understand…

— Sophie Barthes

But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.

— David Mitchell

“It was such a meaningful display of how our stories and journeys are woven together into a narrative of what it means to be…

— The Women's March Organizers

“She was bold, and yet she was reserved. She was sensual and girlish, but she was never coy. So I think that what she…

— Paul Fees

“A woman should be like a great book— the kind you can’t forget, long after the last page.”

— Angelika Regossi

So she [Eleanor Roosevelt] is an amazing First Lady. What other First Lady in U.S. history has ever written a book to criticize her…

— Blanche Wiesen Cook

“The choice of the point(s) of view from which the story is told is arguably the most important single decision that the novelist has…

— David Lodge

Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such an independently…

— Natalie Dormer

I'm so intrigued by women throughout history where the significance of what they were representing at that time is obscured by the fact a…

— Zoe Saldana