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 Robert Southey
Literature cannot be the business of a woman's life, and it ought not to be.( Southey's reply to Charlotte Bronte)
It is not for man to rest in absolute contentment.
As sure as God is good so surely there is no such thing as necessary evil.
Is but the threshold of eternity.
It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions. They have their place in heaven also.
