Virginia Woolf: Elizabethan tombstones In centuries past, women were burdened with many children and had no opportunity to write. Read more
Lament of a Modern American Woman – please join the choir Today, American men are sitting in the waiting room while the women give birth to a new nation. Read more
Virginia Woolf: "women minister to men" “Sir, a woman’s composing is like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well, but you are surprised to find it done at all.’” Read more
Virginia Woolf: to write a work of genius …to write a work of genius is almost always a feat of prodigious difficulty. Read more
Dachau Didn’t Move Me We didn’t tell the Irish, “Time’s up! They’re growing potatoes again. Read more
Virginia Woolf: If Shakespeare had had a sister… Any woman born with a great gift in the sixteenth century would certainly have gone crazed, shot herself Read more
Virginia Woolf: Why did no woman write that extraordinary literature? [Woman] dominates the lives of kings and conquerors in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger Read more
REVIEW: HUNGER, by Roxane Gay I put down the book discouraged and unimpressed, though a little better informed about people I know who have been tragically transformed by a childhood violation. Read more
Virginia Woolf ..when womanhood ceases to be protected Anything may happen when womanhood has ceased to be a protected occupation Read more