Books Quote by Julianna Baggott

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

— Michelle Dean

Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit.

— Florence King

Literature has the power to change lives, minds, and hearts.

— Anonymous

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

— Anonymous

I think literature has lost it's power. Great novels continue to be written, but they are no longer changing the world.

— Don DeLillo

It has seemed to me that literature, as I meant it, was embattled, that it was increasingly difficult to find writing doing what I…

— Dorothy Allison

Reading has made such a profound difference to my life. I'm sure I became a writer because of the power of literature in my…

— Katherine Paterson

I certainly wouldn't be writing books if it hadn't been for the feminist blogosphere, and I think that's a really amazing thing.

— Jessica Valenti

“I think of feminism as poetry; we hear histories in words; we reassemble histories by putting them into words.”

— Sara Ahmed

Feminism is teaching. I've gotten a lot of pleasure pushing younger writers that I've met and worked with.

— Erica Jong

Literature has become my life.

— Mikhail Bulgakov

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It…

— Abraham Verghese