Book Quote by Susan Griffin

I read that book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue', got a bit desperate halfway through and ate it.

— Jo Brand

“What does it say about our culture that the desire for weight loss is considered a default feature of womanhood?”

— Roxane Gay

“I write books that I want to read. I write books that feature curvy heroines because I'm a curvy woman myself and it gets…

— Seraphina Donavan

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

“A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience." -Naomi Wolf”

— Stacey M. Rosenfeld

“This is a book about women. This is a book about girls who had a ton of fear and personal flaws and faced insurmountable…

— Ann Shen

“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

“And since a novel has this correspondence to real life, its values are to some extent those of real life. But it is obvious…

— Virginia Woolf

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

“The damage to her body, the wear and the weariness, were all products of conscious, determined choices made by a girl she hadn’t been…

— James S.A. Corey

I know of no other book that so fully teaches the subjection and degradation of women.

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton