1930s Quote by Muriel Spark

“At thirty-six, Margaret believed her “mind and character” were already “too much formed” through “a liberal communion with the woful struggling crowd of fellow…

— Megan Marshall

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen

“How many like her were out there? People to whom the twenty-first century was a foreign landscape. No bright tomorrows for this lot, they…

— Alan James Roll

Young women today, as in the fifties, find themselves entering the big world and having to make choices.

— Robert Gottlieb

To thousands of elder women in the late sixties and early seventies [the private women's club movement] came like a new gospel ofactivity and…

— Laura E. Richards

“They were women then My mama's generation Husky of voice stout of Step With fists as well as Hands How they battered down Doors…

— Alice Walker

“I had affairs with a few girls of my own age, and they taught me that no girl, however intelligent and war-hearted, can possibly…

— Stephen Vizinczey

“Within this enclosed women's world, so to say, behind the walls and fortifications of it, I felt the presence of a great ideal, without…

— Karen Blixen

“what she did during her lifetime but in the meaning of her life, the inspiration she gave to others, particularly women, to search for…

— Andrew Morton

“She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred almost any source of information to the printed page; she had an immense…

— Henry James

“would place beside her in my mind’s eye the young competent woman, proud, courageous, and generous, I’d known as a child. I was living…

— Jill Ker Conway

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of…

— Arsene Houssaye