American literature Quote by Matthew Quick

“The violence between women is unbelievable...women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.”

— Tori Amos

The women of the South have brought into American literature a unique mixture of domesticity and grotesquerie.

— James Dickey

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

— Naomi Wolf

“Again, I know that story is suspect in the high precincts of American fiction, but only because it brings entertainment and pleasure, the same…

— Pat Conroy

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

— Naomi Wolf

The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the…

— Michelle Dean

“in favor of southern womanhood as much as anybody, but not for preserving polite fiction at the expense of human life.”

— Harper Lee

“As women, we are the protagonists of our own personal novels. We are called upon to be the heroines of our own lives, not…

— Erin Blakemore

“For whatever the era, nationality, gender and genre; whether realistic, traditional, fabulist, historical, fantasist, minimalist, crossover, the writer worthy of the literary arts and…

— Gregorio C. Brillantes

“But she had a lively acquaintaince with confinement through the works of women novelists, especially those of the unmarried ones.”

— Stella Gibbons

“Woolf liberates the text, the imagination, the fictional character, and then demands that liberty for ourselves, most particularly for women.”

— Rebecca Solnit

“All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.”

— Abhijit Naskar