Fictional-men Quote by Kate Atkinson

“One cannot read a novel without ascribing to the heroine the traits of the one we love.”

— Alain de Botton

“It was a compound of self-reliance, hard knocks, heart hunger, unceasing work, and generosity. There was no form of suffering with which the girl…

— Gene Stratton Porter

“I seek a woman, the woman of my desires. Who won’t be scared by loyalty and truth, nor turn away from the darkness of…

— Anne de Gandt

“She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.”

— Chad Harbach

“She wanted all or nothing, illogically, irrationally, even though something inside of her knew that nothing would be too hard, and all was impossible.”

— Jennifer E. Smith

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

“The one thing which seems to me quite impossible is to take into consideration the kind of book one is expected to write; surely…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“And at last, the lonely young man who belonged to no one finally belonged to someone, forever, and the practical girl who would not…

— Melissa de la Cruz

“She found herself suddenly surrounded by a host of assumptions. It was assumed that she trembled for joy in his presence, languished in his…

— Vita Sackville-West

“I want her to be neither dressed nor undressed, neither fed nor unfed, and moreover she must not be all alone, but nevertheless no…

— Christopher Van Dyke

“She was constitutionally unable to endure any man being in love with any woman not herself,”

— Margaret Mitchell

...there must be something she wanted; and that therefore she was no lady.

— Elizabeth Bowen