No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"... No woman has ever written enough.
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Bell Hooks
When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women
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Gustave Flaubert
I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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Virginia Woolf
Being a woman is a terribly difficult trade since it consists principally of dealings with men.
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Joseph Conrad
There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.
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Mae West
More Quotes By Frank Herbert
Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.
At first I did not love you, Jude; that I own. When I first knew you I merely wanted you to love me. I did not exactly flirt with you; but that inborn craving which undermines some women's morals almost more than unbridled passion--the craving...
I know women are taught by other women that they must never admit the full truth to a man. But the highest form of affection is based on full sincerity on both sides. Not being men, these women don't know that in looking back on...
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man cruelly, she encourages him to love her while she doesn't love him at all. Then, when she sees him suffering,...
Happiness was but the occasional episode in a general drama of pain.