Books Quote by Phyllis Rose

“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely talented &…

— Anonymous

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

— Okky Madasari

In the circle where I was raised, I knew of no one knowledgeable in the visual arts, no one who regularly attended musical performances,…

— Shirley Hazzard

“So many of the conscious and unconscious ways men and women treat each other have to do with romantic and sexual fantasies that are…

— Nora Ephron

I've always been able to do what I wanted. On the other hand, my mother was. She considered the fact of being a woman…

— Indira Gandhi

There is no bleaker moment in life of the city than that one which crosses the boundary lines between those who have not slept…

— Anais Nin

“The poorer women lived from wages, the richer women sank their money into houses they often shared with other beguines. That did not stop…

— Michael Pye

“It was all very well being in love with one of the most beautiful women who had ever lived, but it had a tendency…

— H.O. Charles

[Turkish women] had lived free of the veil for 5,000 years, and had been covered only in the last 600 years.

— Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

“ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of…

— Angela Carter

“Spring was becoming summer, not yet the oppressive heat of July and August, but sweaty days that were harbingers. Of course, now we had…

— J.M. Redmann

I talked to women who lived there, to get their speech patterns and outlook on life - and how narrow that is.

— Ellen Burstyn

I'm ecstatic to be known as pad man, as it makes a difference to women's lives.

— Arunachalam Muruganantham

“You have to admit that most women who do something with their lives have been disliked by almost everyone.”

— Francoise Gilot

Hair, in fact, is probably the bane of most women's lives.

— Joan Collins