Endowment Quote by Samuel Johnson

“But for this epoch we must wait—wait, perhaps, till kings and nobles, enlightened by reason, and, preferring the real dignity of man to childish…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

Whatever be the motives which induce men to write,--whether avarice or fame,--the country becomes more wise and happy in which they most serve for…

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Male writers who never find the stabilizing force of an understanding woman in their lives usually end up as the jaded figures of their…

— Janvier Chouteu-Chando

Writing is in fact an entirely outworn, decayed and corrupt convention whose chief & most conspicuous character is its monumental witness to the conservatism,…

— Eric Gill

when it comes to their essential faculty as writers, all writers are androgynous beings.

— Nadine Gordimer

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

— Anton Chekhov

while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for…

— Joyce Carol Oates

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

I claim that every woman in this century and in our culture sphere who has ventured into male-dominated institutions - 'literature' and 'aesthetics' are…

— Christa Wolf

To be a woman and a writer is double mischief, for the world will slight her who slights "the servile house," and who would…

— Dilys Laing

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud