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 Muriel Rukeyser
The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
No one wants to read poetry. You have to make it impossible for them to put the poem down--impossible for them to stop reading it, word after word. You have to keep them from closing the book.
Always our wars have been our confessions of weakness
