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
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