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 Ovid
I am the poet of the poor, because I was poor when I loved; since I could not give gifts, I gave words.
Dripping water hollows out stone, not through force but through persistence.
Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.
Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses
As wave is driven by wave And each, pursued, pursues the wave ahead, So time flies on and follows, flies, and follows, Always, for ever and new. What was before Is left behind; what never was is now; And every passing moment is renewed.
