Achieve Quote by Lydia Sigourney

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

The career of a writer is comparable to that of a woman of easy virtue. You write first for pleasure, later for the pleasure…

— Marcel Achard

“Unhappy as the event must be for Lydia, we may draw from it this useful lesson: that loss of virtue in a female is…

— Jane Austen

No one writes a story like Lydia Davis. In the years since she began publishing her lyrical, extremely short fiction, she has quietly become…

— Jonathan Messinger

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov

“A lot is being said today about the influence that the myths and images of women have on all of us who are products…

— Adrienne Rich

She is not a writer at all, really; she is merely a gifted eccentric.

— Michael Cunningham

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

— Siri Hustvedt

“Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”

— Joanna Russ

Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my…

— Emma McLaughlin

“It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which…

— Christine Brooke-Rose