Feminism Women In Literature Quotes

#1. Chorus of women: [ ... ] Oh! my good, gallant Lysistrata, and all my friends, be ever like a bundle of nettles; never let you anger slacken; the wind of fortune blown our way.

Aristophanes

#2. The woman who realizes that she is bound by a million Lilliputian threads in an attitude of impotence and hatred masquerading as tranquility and love has no option but to run away, if she is not to be corrupted and extinguished utterly.

Germaine Greer

#3. My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

Katherine Heigl

#4. I am fascinated that no one I have read seems to have noticed that the literature on Picasso continually turns grown-up women into girls.

Siri Hustvedt

#5. I chose the songs for the music more than for the lyrical content and it wasn't until the end of the recording and when we were trying to decide running order that I realized how sad a lot of the songs could sound.

Vashti Bunyan

#6. Magistrate: May I die a thousand deaths ere I obey one who wears a veil!
Lysistrata: If that's all that troubles you, here take my veil, wrap it round your head, and hold your tounge. Then take this basket; put on a girdle, card wool, munch beans. The War shall be women's business.

Aristophanes

#7. She was tattooed on every part of his body. Deeper, in his heart, his very soul. A permanent brand that would never wear off.

Maya Banks

#8. You are the beauty I've been seeking all my life. My existence was dark, grim, full of struggle, until you. You are the light that pushes the darkness away. When I'm with you, I can see my way, and I can breathe again.

Jennifer Ashley

#9. Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#10. Psychologists cannot fix the world so they fix women.

Germaine Greer

#11. People think I'm selling feminism in my books, but what I'm really doing is writing advertising copy for expensive private colleges that most women can't afford anyway. Oh, and try to find a job with a major in English literature. No luck? Joke's on you, sucker!

Mary Gordon

#12. There are many ways to be beautiful. Fighting, swearing, and ignoring tradition could make a women irresistible.

Fatema Mernissi

#13. Judge your enemy based upon capabilities, not intent, you have to look at the enemy and really almost make a worst case call every time.

Norman Schwarzkopf

#14. In truth we know by experience that song has great force and vigour to move and inflame the hearts of men to invoke and praise God with a more vehement and ardent zeal.

John Calvin

#15. Liberty is terrifying but it is also exhilarating.

Germaine Greer

#16. Sleeping is forbidden at the age of 22. It's all work and no play.

Usher

#17. Marriage cannot be a job as it has become.

Germaine Greer

#18. Pure air, sunlight, abstemiousness, rest, exercise, proper diet, the use of water, trust in Divine power-these are the true remedies.

Ellen G. White

#19. I guess that's the story of life: what you most fear never happens, but what you most yearn for never happens either. This is the difference between life and fiction. I suppose it's a good trade-off. But I'm not sure.

Philip K. Dick