Age Quote by Virginia Woolf

I'd love to do more Shakespeare but Shakespeare didn't write parts for older women.

— Geraldine James

There aren't that many great female roles in Shakespeare - none that I'd be desperate to play.

— Maxine Peake

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

It was easier to do Shakespeare than a lot of modern movie scripts that are so poorly written.

— Jessica Lange

“Suppose, for instance, that men were only represented in literature as the lovers of women, and were never the friends of men, soldiers, thinkers,…

— Virginia Woolf

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless,…

— Ellen Terry

Nor sequent centuries could hitOrbit and sum of Shakespeare's wit.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Gender mattered a whole lot less to Shakespeare than it seems to matter to us.

— John Irving

“Let's dispel the idiotic notion that the plays were not written by Shakespeare. Of course they were written by Shakespeare. How can we look…

— Paul Barnes

Shakespeare was writing about his time, and it was a time when women were beginning to demand a voice, demand a say in their…

— Phyllida Lloyd

Where does an actress go after playing Cleopatra's magnificent death? Why didn't Shakespeare write more - and more powerful - roles for mature women?

— Harriet Walter

“If Shakespeare had never existed, he asked, would the world have differed much from what it is today?”

— Virginia Woolf