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 OConnor
I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.
A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.
Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.
So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note...
A grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.
