Women Writers Quotes
Women Writers Quote of the day
Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
I am protective of the gentle slope of stomach bulging like an early pregnancy, at my waist. I've earned its existence with everything I've been forced to swallow.
Our mothers were largely silent about what happened to them as they passed through this midlife change. But a new generation of women has already started to break the wall of silence.
Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight.
Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women
She felt the phrase “demand her rights” had lain inside her forever, waiting.
If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line.
The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!
They were from different generations, culture, nations. But even these things did not divide them so much as their separate conceptions of what it meant to be a woman.
What wouldn’t my people give for a few bites of the biryani she ordered me to throw away yesterday because she said it smelt?
The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.
The master's tools will never dismantle the master's house. They may allow us to temporarily beat him at his own game, but they will never enable us to bring about genuine change.
That's what a poem is. Words which have a hidden meaning. A poem is like a secret.
Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick.
Can you be inside and outside at the same time?I think this is where I live.I think this is where most women live.I know this is where writers live.Inside to write. Outside to glean.
A question that always makes me hazy is it me or are the others crazy'Albert Einstein
A strong woman builds her own world. She is one who is wise enough to know that it will attract the man she will gladly share it with.
she was completely wholeand yet never fully complete
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces...
The depths of her thoughts will have you never wanting to surface for air...
Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....
The voice of a Black woman should always be HERSELF ...No edits - no erasure - no pressure - no expectations - no additions - no intruders
Live your life in such a way that you'll be remembered for your kindness, compassion, fairness, character, benevolence, and a force for good who had much respect for life, in general.
I prefer to be on the side of losers, the misunderstood or lonely people rather than writing about the strong and powerful.
Some women are born with an instinct for knowing how things work—and what to do when they break.
Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying
Before there were books, we read each other.
If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention.
I Became a free woman when I decided to stop dreaming, freedom that is waiting for nothing .. and anticipation is a state of slavery" - Ahlam (Chaos of the Senses)
Confrontation is what happens when you are less than honest and you get caught.