Writing Quote by Monique Wittig

“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

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“In Greek, Humanity, anthropotita, is female and it feels suitable to call her a she from now on. She is all. She is the…

— Christos Tsotsos

“Long, I am woman who speaks but one language, the language of the fall--discontentment and self-condemnation, the critical eye and the never satisfied.”

— Ann Voskamp

Some feminist critics debate whether we take our meaning and sense of self from language and in that process become phallocentric ourselves, or if…

— Paula Gunn Allen

“Every body allows that the talent of writing agreeable letters is peculiarly female.”

— Jane Austen

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I was gradually coming to have a mysterious and shuddery reverence for this girl; nowadays whenever she pulled out from the station and got…

— Mark Twain

“The heroine of my writings is She, whom I love with all the forces of my being, She who always was, is and will…

— Leo Tolstoy

“Women are an eternal subject, which is a lot like being subjected, or subjugated, or a subject nation, even.”

— Rebecca Solnit

There is a song of Gainsbourg that Jane Birkin sang, and the words are beautiful in French. It says, "Le jeu et les moi."…

— Agnes Varda

She is written in a foreign tongue.

— Henry James