Suzanne Fox

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Suzanne’s Quotes

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

tags: feminism, male-privilege, patriarchy, women, women-writers

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“Second-hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack. Besides, in this random miscellaneous company we may rub against some complete stranger who will, with luck, turn into the best friend we have in the world.”
― Virginia Woolf, Street Haunting

tags: books, literature, reading, words

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“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before, if no woman was ever that socially sacred creature, "a great writer," why do we think we can succeed now?”
― Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing

tags: women-writers

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“It was the kind of story everybody likes, about a tough girl who becomes a truer version of herself by uncovering her vulnerability. It was the kind of story people like because its universe is played out in the story of one person. It was the kind of story (dare I say it?) that women are supposed to write because all its truths are grounded in a single lie: denying chaos.”
― Chris Kraus, I Love Dick

tags: expectations-of-women, female-vulnerability, female-writers, feminism, vulnerability, women, women-writers

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“... it had become agreed that Jane would be excused household duties. It sounds like a tiny thing – and indeed it was – but a tiny trickle of water gradually hollows out a stone. Jane’s ducking out of the housework in order to write would lead inexorably onwards, upwards, towards women working, to women winning power in a world of men. This is the significance of trying to reconstruct the detail of Jane Austen’s daily life.”
― Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen at Home

tags: feminism, jane-austen, women-writers

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