Books Quote by Katha Pollitt Download Open image “Like Broadway, the novel, and G-d, feminism has been declared dead many times” — Katha Pollitt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Books Broadway Dead man Feminism Has beens Novel
Women's writing was coming along fine until feminists came along and turned it into Women's Lit. — Florence King Copy Share Image
I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Feminism is dead. The movement is absolutely dead. The women's movement tried to suppress dissident voices for way too long. There's no room for… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it? — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into… — Laurie Frankel Copy Share Image
“Feminism was good for me, as were any number of causes, but as I developed as a thinking person, the truisms and dogmas of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Feminism has tried to dismiss the femme fatale as a misogynist libel, a hoary cliche. But the femme fatale expresses woman's ancient and eternal… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Feminism is still one of those taboo words, so hardly anybody talks about it. People usually go gender-neutral and say the book and film… — Emma Donoghue Copy Share Image
“I should say that it was only for me that Marxism seemed over. Surely, I would tell G. at least once a week, it… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
One of the very important ideas of feminism for me has always been women helping and supporting each other. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
funny how ready people are to believe that counseling, which even when voluntary takes years to modify garden-variety neuroses, can work wonders in months… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“Maybe I’m not cut out for monogamy,” G. had said to me early on. “Maybe I should just live in a room by myself… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
For many people, feminism is one of those words of which, as St. Augustine said about time, they know the meaning as long as… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
When it comes to ideas - and religions are, among other things, ideas - there is no right not to be offended. ... In… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
In a better world, science teachers would teach creationism along with evolution as an exercise in critical thinking. — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
We need to say that women have sex, have abortions, are at peace with the decision and move on with their lives. We need… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
“I’m a writer; I can float for hours on a word like “amethyst” or “broom” or the way so many words sound like what… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
A feminist is a person who answers 'yes' to the question 'Are women human?' Feminism is not about whether women are better than, worse… — Katha Pollitt Copy Share Image
I think a new world will arise out of the religious mists when we approach our Bible with the idea that it is not… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
If what I write is literature, I guess you'd better emphasize the 'litter.' — Lydia Lunch Copy Share Image
My sentences got sharper and my stories more efficient, and I gradually learned to imagine the reader more clearly and to empathize with that… — Karen Thompson Walker Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
“Within the pages of books, I've journeyed to Mandalay, the Milky Way and Santa Fe, without once having to leave my armchair.” — Kevin Ansbro Copy Share Image
“Tacitus did not write a most dangerous book. His readers made it so.” — Christopher K. Krebs Copy Share Image
“Take some books and read; that’s an immense help; and books are always good company if you have the right sort.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Reader, if you are gifted with nerves like mine, aspire to any character but that of a wit. — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
I think books in which people are really happy and things are going well are probably the most challenging novels there are to write,… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
