Animal Quote by Virginia Woolf

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

Women are books, and men the readers be...

— Benjamin Franklin

“I had come at last, in the course of this rambling, to the shelves which hold books by the living; by women and by…

— Virginia Woolf

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I…

— Alexander McCall Smith

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

What these books have conclusively proven is that the diffence between men and women is exactly 38 pages.

— Paul Scofield

Most books are bought by women.

— Gloria Steinem

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks

“I was arguing not that everyone should read books by ladies—though shifting the balance matters—but that maybe the whole point of reading is to…

— Rebecca Solnit