124 Quotes About Women-writers

I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.

And the last word may go to Virginia Woolf: Jane Austen was born before those bonds which (we are told) protected woman from truth, were burst by the Brontës or elaborately untied by George Eliot. Yet the fact remains that Jane Austen knew much more about men than either of them. Jane Austen may have been protected from truth: but it was precious little of truth that was protected from her.

Leaders bleed.

Great’ writers were so obviously supposed to be male, and not anyone’s aunt.

You are unique like a fingerprint...Press yourself hard to create the foundation of your uniqueness.

We are strangers; we write as individual captive Martians.

Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own

They think the recipe for a 'home-maker' is- a woman who isn't smart enough, lacks skills and above all isn't ambitious enough! Well she is every bit as smart as the woman who puts on a suit to go to work in a man's world to prove- times have changed! She is every bit as intelligent!

The Brain—is wider than the Sky—