Female Writer Quotes

“I guess it’s like, in my head, my writing can be as great as I want it to be. But as soon as I declare I’m a writer, I’ll have something to prove. It’s hard to admit that you think you’re good at something creative. And then it’s so much worse for women. We’re told to shrug off compliments, to scoff when someone tells us we’re good at something. We shrink ourselves, convincing ourselves what we’re creating doesn’t actually matter.”
― Rachel Lynn Solomon, Today Tonight Tomorrow

“Love is no destruction, but rather instruction, nourishment and sustenance for those who trust in it, for Love is repletion and the abyss and the fullness of the sea.”
― Marguerite Porete, Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

“Love: Such a Soul, says Love, swims in the sea of joy, that is in the sea of delights flowing and streaming from the Divinity, and she feels no joy, for she herself is joy, and so she swims and flows in joy without feeling any joy, for she dwells in joy and joy dwells in her; for through the power of joy she is herself joy, which has changed her into itself.
Now they have one common will, like fire and flame, the will of the lover and that of the beloved, for love has changed this Soul into itself.

The Soul: Ah, sweetest, pure, divine Love, says this Soul, how sweet is this changing by which I am changed into the thing that i love better than I love myself! And I am so changed that i have therein lost my name for the sake of loving, I who can love so little; and I am changed into that which I love more than myself, that is, into Love, for I love nothing but Love.”
― Marguerite Porete, Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

“The beauty of their silence was in everything that they heard around them.”
― Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“By having the sun rise every day, the earth and the sky are renewing their commitment to work together. And we in turn honor that relationship and directly benefit from it.”
― Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“Of these death-white realms I formed an idea of my own: shadowy, like all the half-comprehended notions that float dim through children’s brains, but strangely impressive.”
― Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

“Don't just write a strong female protagonist. Be one.”
― Adrienne Posey

“once you make yourself a freak and special any bastard starts to use you. That's half of the fierce fight in Africa'

— Elizabeth”
― Bessie Head, A Question of Power

“Love: Ah, Reason, says Love, you will always see with one eye only, you and all those who are nurtured by your doctrine. For the man is indeed one-eyed who sees the things which are before his eyes yet does not know what they are; and this is the case with you.”
― Marguerite Porete, Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

“Back at the Davydokovo apartment, we sat mesmerized in front of Grandad's Avantgard brand TV. It was all porn all the time. Porn in three flavors: 1)Tits and asses; 2) gruesome close-ups of dead bodies from war or crimes; 3) Stalin. Wave upon wave of previously unseen documentary footage of the Generalissimo. Of all the porn, number three was the most lurid. The erotics of power.”
― Anya von Bremzen, Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking: A Memoir of Food and Longing

“A girl with a notebook becomes a woman with vision.”
― Adrienne Posey

“Her words dance on the page.”
― Adrienne Posey

“You have to live your life if you’re going to do original work. Your work will come out of an authentic life ...”
― Louise Glück

“It also made her think of the sounds of ceremony: the eagle whistles, the drum, the shakers. It made her think that we really are replicating the sounds of nature through our music and celebrations, all of which help heal us.”
― Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“With the help of Creator, our grandfather sun and grandmother moon agreed to work together with our mother, the earth, to create life. Then other beings of Creation were placed on the earth and in the sky. We, humans, Anishnaabe, were the last to be placed here. This is why we refer to ourselves as the younger brothers and sisters to the rest of beings in Creation.”
― Aimée Craft, Treaty Words: For As Long As the Rivers Flow

“Reason: Ah, Love, says Reason, when are such Souls in the true freedom of Pure Love?

Love: When they have no longing, no feeling, and at no time any affection of the spirit; for such customs would enslave them, being too far away from the peace of freedom in which few men permit themselves to dwell. And also they do nothing, says Love, which is opposed to the peace of their inner being, and so in peace they bear the orders of Love.”
― Marguerite Porete, Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

“There are two kinds of people who live a life of perfection though works of virtue in spiritual affection.
The first are those who in all things mortify the body, performing the works of charity, and they have such pleasure in their works that they do not perceive that there can be any better state of being than that of works of virtue and a martyr's death, longing to persevere in it through the help of many prayers, always increasing their good intentions, always preserving this way of life, always holding fast as they do to it and convinced as they are that this is the best of all the states of being that can be. Such people, says Love, are blessed, but they become lost in their works, because of the satisfaction which they have in their state of being.
Such people, says Love, are called kings, but that is in a land where men see only with one eye, for truly those who have two eyes consider them as slaves.”
― Marguerite Porete, Marguerite Porete: The Mirror of Simple Souls

“I decided early that I would be a writer when I grew up. That, I thought, was the profession that went with the kind of woman I wanted to become: one who is free to do whatever she chooses.”
― Ariel Levy, The Rules Do Not Apply