Daisy-bowman Quote by Lisa Kleypas

“Miss Peyton,” Lillian Bowman asked, “what kind of man would be the ideal husband for you?” “Oh,” Annabelle said with irreverent lightness, “any peer…

— Lisa Kleypas

“You're confusing desire and love,' she said, watching him. 'They are not the same.' 'I do love you. I feel near to murder at…

— Eloisa James

Shakespeare writes such wonderful parts for women, parts that work so well today. I think he really liked women.

— Geraldine James

“In the busyness of living, he is the kind of man that makes a woman pause and write romantic poetry.”

— Terry a O'Neal

“We probably read Shakespeare in the first place for his stories, afterwards for his characters. . . . To become intimate with Shakespeare in…

— Charlotte Mason

“Married against their will, kept in one room, and to one occupation, how could a dramatist give a full or interesting or truthful account…

— Virginia Woolf

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

“I want a marriage of companions—one of shared lives and shared poems,' he murmured. 'If we were husband and wife, we would collect books,…

— Lisa See

What we know is that Shakespeare wrote perhaps the most remarkable body of passionate love poetry in the English language to a young man.

— Stephen Greenblatt

We're very lucky, men, that there are these fabulous parts. Women - once you've done all the parts in Shakespeare, they start running out.…

— Ian Mckellen

“It is true that biographical readings of the plays are dangerous, unregulated, prone to sentimentalization. It is absurd to cherry-pick passages of poetry written…

— Charles Nicholl

“It is heresy to say that we shall ever again produce a poet of Shakespeare's stature, but we have faith that when the spirit…

— Alfred B. Douglas