“ Trouble is you never knew her. Died too soon. It's always a pity when they die too soon, but maybe it's worse when they live too long. Florence Stevenson
“ I went back to the women and said, 'Tell me exactly what you want us to do.' And they said, 'Don't do anything for us, do somethingfor our children'. Nicholas D. Kristof
“ He [Shakespeare] was a wordsmith who loved to act and to see things from many points of view.(...) His genius lay in being able to see all sides of an argument. Tina Packer
“ He [Hamlet] sees ghosts and listens to dreams. And when his ghost father tells him that he (Hamlet Senior) was killed by his brother and asks Hamlet Junior to avenge his death, in the right, honorable… Tina Packer
“ Stranger inside me, when you are born, I will give youa closed book and ask you never to read it, never rest, never forgive a man who wants to save you. Traci Brimhall
“ [Shakespeare realized that] Women are able to understand themselves better on a personal level and survive in the world if they dress in men's clothing, thus living underground, safe (...). The presen… Tina Packer
“ [Talking about Othello] His dying words are about the service he has done to the state -not what he has done to Desdemona. (...) He acknowledges not love but the power structure (...). Othello believe… Tina Packer
“ [Talking about Rosalind in As You Like It] She disguises herself as a boy, drops all the covering inhibitions of "femininity", and really searches for her true self (...) Her disguise gives her the ab… Tina Packer
“ Men don’t think, high and low-alike, they take what a woman does for them for granted. D.H. Lawrence
“ [Talking about ancient Greece](...) the great institutions (...) were created by older males who then trained younger males. They all had a strong homoerotic element. (...) This thereby increased the… Tina Packer
“ A bumper sticker from the 1970s read, “A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle. Steven Pinker
“ Some problems we share as women, some we do not. You hear your children will grow up to join the patriarchy and testify against you, we fear our children will be dragged from a car and shot down in th… Audre Lorde
“ 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
“ The history keepers will no doubt tell their own tale, and the priests another. It is the men's accounts that seem to survive a world obsessed with conquest, our actions beyond bedchamber and hearth r… Tosca Lee
“ It is harder for queens, who have no luxury of meekness. History does not know how to reconcile our ambition or our power when we are strong enough to survive it. The priests have no tolerance for tho… Tosca Lee
“ Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is… Virginia Woolf
“ Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women Virginia Woolf
