Women in Literature Quotes

Everytime I read 'Pride and Prejudice' I want to dig her up and beat her over the skull with her own shin-bone.

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Women excel more in literary judgment than in literary production,--they are better critics than authors.

I'm perfectly happy when I look out at an audience and it's all women. I always think it's kind of odd, but then, more women than men, I think, read and write poetry.

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

Every time there's a really good story, there's women in it. We may not get as many roles, but the roles we get are really good, I think, for the most part.

Some of the writers I've praised are Sara Paretsky, Val McDermid, Elisabeth George and Minette Walters. Strangely enough, almost all are women.

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

Wonderful women! Have you ever thought how much we all, and women especially, owe to Shakespeare for his vindication of women in these fearless, high-spirited, resolute and intelligent heroines?

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When a woman writes a story of adventure, a stout sea tale, a manly battle yarn, anything without wine, women, and love, then I will begin to hope for something great from them, not before.

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

Anyone who had ever read a novel knew that governesses were supposed to be meek and downtrodden.

I love any books by Kelly Sue DeConnick or Marjorie M. Liu; it's lovely to have successful, talented female writers doing great work in comics.

All things I do are in every woman. Every woman is Medea. Every woman is Jocasta. There comes a time when a woman is a mother to her husband. Clytemnestra is every woman when she kills.

I'm always really comfortable writing strong, smart ladies. That's kind of my bailiwick.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

I only want to write books and movies about women.

It remains an incredible struggle for women in theater, and, in particular, playwrights and directors, to get their work seen and to not only get seen, but to get it to Broadway.

I am a woman. I write SF. And it's not acceptable to treat me as anything less than an equal. I won't stand for it.

I've worked in predominately male sets my entire life. Shakespeare? Let's talk about that.

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about.

I do not think I ever opened a book in my life which had not something to say upon woman's inconstancy. Songs and proverbs, all talk of woman's fickleness. But perhaps you will say, these were all written by men.