Affair Quote by Tina Fey

I wrote my first play, Uncommon Women and Others, in the hopes of seeing an all-female curtain call in the basement of the Yale…

— Wendy Wasserstein

“A startling thought this, that a woman could handle business matters as well or better than a man, a revolutionary thought to Scarlett who…

— Margaret Mitchell

“Because I’m a peer. We aristocrats always try to get someone else to do something before we have to do it ourselves.” He gave…

— Lisa Kleypas

Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the…

— Jane Austen

“That happens a lot with Shakespeare. The women go after what they want; the men wind up suckered into things.”

— Gayle Forman

“Growing up, women were not the mystery—I knew how they worked, or thought I did. Men were the mystery, obscure in their violences and…

— Kenji Yoshino

“None of us can be expected to perform every minute of our lives. But a lot of us might tap into the power, excitement,…

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

The last act crowns the play.

— John Ruskin

“There are thousands of other women to choose from. You understand me? And this court runs on ambition alone.”

— Cindy Pon

“As a rule, people who act lead the most commonplace lives. They are good husbands, or faithful wives, or something tedious...How different Sibyl was!…

— Oscar Wilde

“I was managing simultaneously to love women and justice, which is no easy matter.”

— Albert Camus

“Her boldness only served to remind him that he had strayed into a world of masculine privilege even greater than the one he had…

— Teresa Medeiros