Book Quote by Virginia Woolf

“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

“Yet it is the masculine values that prevail. Speaking crudely, football and sport are ‘important’; the worship of fashion, the buying of clothes ‘trivial’.…

— Virginia Woolf

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

[Preface to second edition:] ... I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the…

— Anne Bronte

“People will point to books written about women, by men, and books written by women, and say, ‘Tell me, what is the difference?’ The…

— Shireen Dodson

Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.

— Jayne Anne Phillips

“I am a dash man and not a miler, and it is probable that I will never write a novel. So far the novels…

— J.D. Salinger

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

But the only important thing in a book is the meaning it has for you; it may have other and much more profound meanings…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”

— Virginia Woolf

The vehemence with which certain critics have chosen not simply to criticize what I've written, but to challenge my writing this story at all,…

— Joyce Maynard

“Critics are the eunuchs of literature. They stand by in envious awe while the whole man and his partner demonstrate the art of living.”

— John Steinbeck