Austen Quote by Virginia Woolf

Jane Austen was an extraordinary woman; to actually be able to survive as a novelist in those days - unmarried - was just unheard…

— Julie Walters

Jane Austen's characters for women are always very strong, opinionated and elegantly written, so they're always great for an actress to have a chance…

— Tamsin Egerton

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch

I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

But the novels of women were not affected only by the necessarily narrow range of the writer's experience. They showed, at least in the…

— Virginia Woolf

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

I'm really aware that in fiction, women are pretty much equal. There's a lot of very successful women novelists. Not so much [for women…

— Emma Donoghue

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Jane Austen had created six heroines, each quite different, and that gave Charlotte courage. There wasn't just one kind of woman to be.”

— Shannon Hale

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld