Biographies Quote by Kate Zambreno

it never really occurred to her that literary men, if they like women at all, do not want literary women but girls.

— Muriel Spark

Carla Hesse has given us an astonishing new look at women's struggle for independent expression and moral autonomy during the French Revolution and afterward.…

— Natalie Zemon Davis

“If all literary women had such thoughtful angels for husbands, they would live longer and write more. Perhaps that wouldn't be such a blessing…

— Louisa May Alcott

When in company with literary women, make no allusions to 'learned ladies,' or 'blue stockings,' or express surprise that they should have any knowledge…

— Eliza Leslie

I write literary biographies, so above all, I have to love the subject's books. But choosing a subject is tough.

— Blake Bailey

The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline;…

— Kate Zambreno

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.

— Joan Frank

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine…

— Whitney Cummings

One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in…

— Erin Belieu

Women tend to reinvest their proceeds in one another, in their communities, in their children.

— Dina Powell

Women tend to live longer than men do. Women tend to have, unfortunately, their salaries peaked sooner than men's do. Both of these things…

— Sallie Krawcheck

In the area of trading, it is now an academically demonstrated fact that women tend to be a little bit more risk-adverse. They don't…

— Christine Lagarde