“No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much"… No woman has ever written enough.”
Source: remembered rapture: the writer at work
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American author, feminist, and social activist 1952Related quotes
“All a writer has to do to get a woman is to say he's a writer. It's an aphrodisiac.”
Saul Bellow (1915–2005) Canadian-born American writer
As quoted in "Dailer's Choice" by Harriet Van Horne, in New York Magazine Vol. 10, No. 13 (28 March 1977), p. 80
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“Too much is written by the men who can't write about the men who do write.”
Source: Martin Eden (1909), Ch. XXXII
“A man is always afraid of a woman that loves him too much”
John Gay (1685–1732) English poet and playwright
Source: The Beggar's Opera
Reinaldo Arenas (1943–1990) Cuban poet/novelist/playwright
Source: On a writer’s responsibility in “The Literature of Uprootedness: An Interview with Reinaldo Arenas” https://www.newyorker.com/books/page-turner/the-literature-of-uprootedness-an-interview-with-reinaldo-arenas in The New Yorker (2013 Dec 5)
“I'm a writer first & a woman after.”
Katherine Mansfield (1888–1923) New Zealand author
Letter to John Middleton Murry (3 December 1920), from The Collected Letters of Katherine Mansfield, vol. IV
“Woman's faith and woman's trust,
Write the characters in dust.”
Walter Scott book The Betrothed
The Betrothed, Chap. xx.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Maurice Sendak (1928–2012) American illustrator and writer of children's books
As quoted in Boston Globe interview (4 January 1987)