Women Writers Quotes

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Germany Kent
“Advice to my younger self:

1 Start where you are with what you have
2 Try not to hurt other people
3 Take more chances
4 If you fail, keep trying”
Germany Kent
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Virginia Woolf
“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”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Maquita Donyel Irvin Andrews
“I didn't come looking for you the day you uninvitedly appeared on my doorstep

How did we go from nonchalant conversation
me waiting for you to turn me off
with corny jokes and mind dumbing conversation
to
love

To love and mind blowing chemistry that I've yet to make sense of
What are you here to teach me?”
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

Mrinalini Mitra
“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!”
Mrinalini Mitra, Belief

Barbara Delinsky
“Every woman feels. It just takes the right man to make things combust.”
Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints

Barbara Delinsky
“When the truth emerges, it can’t be ignored. Nor will it wait.”
Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints

“We are diamonds in the rough
Through the thrust and toil, we come out strong
We are the breath of the earth,
Our wombs tell of humanity's birth
We are seeds splattered on putrid soils
Still we sprout, through every storm
We are not here to survive,
We are here to live...
Inward and outward
In the incandescence of our existence
Yes, our voices may sometimes be broken
But our spirit remains indestructible.
We are women, unapologetically!”
Chinonye J. Chidolue

Emily Dickinson
“The Brain—is wider than the Sky—”
Emily Dickinson, The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson

Virginia Woolf
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”
Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

Barbara Delinsky
“Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.”
Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints

Barbara Delinsky
“Being friends is different from being lovers. It’s a sea change.”
Barbara Delinsky, Blueprints

Maquita Donyel Irvin Andrews
“She was rare, few and far between
She suspected he would be as well
And the thought of two rare, few and far between individuals
Doing all that was necessary for that rare, few and far between
Meeting to occur
Drove her to write”
Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles

AVA.
“my strength should not threaten you.
my strength is not a threat to your strength.
you are strong.
you are beautiful.
you are lush.
you are powerful.
as you are.
as i am.

imagine the force we would be together
if we lifted each other up.
imagine the force we would be together
if we didn't tear each other down.”
AVA., you are safe here.

Chris Kraus
“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story of one person. It was the kind of story (dare I say it?) that women are supposed to write because all its truths are grounded in a single lie: denying chaos.”
Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

Ana Claudia Antunes
“Inequality and poverty, unhealth and no wealth are hand in hand.
And if we are all born equal that should be true in all lands.
We cannot divide the world between poor and rich countries.
It's like saying the ones are good, the others are junkies.
That can only increase more prejudice, miseries and sorrow.
Turning the wheel today it will lead to a better tomorrow.”
Ana Claudia Antunes, The Mysterious Murder of Marilyn Monroe

Nava Atlas
“You'll be amazed how much you have in common with Edith Wharton (who struggled to feel worthy of success), Louisa May Alcott (who badly needed money), Madaleine L'Engle (who could have papered an entire house with her rejection letters) and other writers...”
Nava Atlas, The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life

Simone de Beauvoir
“The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.”
Simone de Beauvoir, Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter

Deborah Sandella
“The intellectual and constant retelling of a victim story becomes a broken record, deepening the groove of helplessness in the nervous system.”
Dr. Deb Sandella

Clarice Lispector
“She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.”
Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

Willa Cather
“O Sacred Heart of Mary!" she murmured by his side, and he felt how that name was food and raiment, friend and mother to her. He received the miracle in her heart into his own, saw through her eyes, knew that his poverty was as bleak as hers. When the Kingdom of Heaven had first come into the world, into a cruel world of torture and slaves and masters, He who brought it had said, "And whosoever is least among you, the same shall be first in the Kingdom of Heaven.”
Willa Cather

Nava Atlas
“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as with being reluctant to use the one that's already lurking inside, just waiting for the chance to speak up. Many of us, especiall,y those from the generations taught to be good, accommodating girls, are afraid of sounding too strong, too loud, too unconventional, or simply too much like the self we're afraid to reveal to the world. Most of us have at least an inkling of what form our writing voice should take, if only we might find the courage to reveal it.”
Nava Atlas, The Literary Ladies' Guide to the Writing Life

Perry Brass
“If you are what you eat, then why aren’t you what you desire?"
Desire stands in the great no-man’s land of human activity: the zone of most conflict, fear, and anxiety. It scares us. We are often asked to hate it—by those who claim to have given it up for “better” things, and who often, hypocritically, haven’t.”
Perry Brass

Deborah Sandella
“To allow uncomfortable feelings is to be fully alive because it opens the emotional faucet that also supplies joy and excitement.”
Dr. Deb Sandella

Lorna Sage
“Like all the girls back then I knew that being too clever was much worse than being too tall. Being five foot three, tongue-tied and blonde I mostly passed muster, except that I was so unskilled in small talk that I sometimes blurted big words (hypocrisy, or pretentiousness), which jumped out of my mouth like the toads of the fairy tale before I knew it. In any case, you could cultivate the wrong sort of silence - the sort that implied brooding self-absorption rather than attentiveness.”
Lorna Sage, Bad Blood

Rebecca Traister
“..the expectations of Republican Motherhood – in which women’s obligations were the instilling of civic virtue in offspring and the moral maintenance of their husbands.”
Rebecca Traister, All the Single Ladies