American woman Quote by Padgett Powell

“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

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of…

— H. W. Brands

An interviewer asked me what book I thought best represented the modern American woman. All I could think of to answer was: Madame Bovary.

— Joseph McCarthy

Notable American Women is an enchanting and moving novel. Like Italo Calvino and Lewis Carrol, Ben Marcus reconfigures the world that we might see…

— Maureen Howard

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm more interested than Philip Roth in understanding women, even if I do it imperfectly. But that book, Portnoy's Complaint, is literary punk in…

— Karan Mahajan

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

— Caitlin Moran

“SOME OF THE WOMEN YOU WILL MEET on these pages, you will already know. Some you’ll know by name, and others, including some of…

— Mick LaSalle

“ It is a special vanity of Southern women to believe that they are different from other American women.” -Sharon McKern, author of Redneck…

— Deborah Ford

Great women scholars like Jane Harrison and Gisela Richter were produced by the intellectual discipline of the masculine classical tradition, not the wishy-washy sentimentalism…

— Camille Paglia

In most homes, from what I know of them, even though the woman's place in that particular home might be in the home, still,…

— Anita Rau Badami

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on…

— Adriana Trigiani