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"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass." ― Maya Angelou #ReadMoreWomen
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“Outside the leaves on the trees constricted slightly; they were the deep done green of the beginning of autumn. It was a Sunday in September.” Ali Smith #ReadMoreWomen
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RT @madelaine_lucas: I wrote about unconventional heroines, screwball comedies & the pleasures of language itself in The Bloater by Rosemar…
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RT @midaspr: "We need to raise our voices ourselves" It's #WITMonth! Founder of independent publisher @3TimesRebel, Bibiana Mas, talks to…
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“A library at night is full of sounds: the unread books can't stand it any longer and announce their contents, some boasting, some shy, some devious.” Helen Oyeyemi #ReadMoreWomen
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@Paras_A83 @BillboardChris @WomenReadWomen I think you've tagged the wrong account. I fully support trans rights
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“Life is just a short walk from the cradle to the grave, and it sure behooves us to be kind to one another along the way.” Alice Childress died #OnThisDay in 1994 #ReadMoreWomen
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RT @JaneAustenHouse: “What dreadful Hot weather we have! – It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.” ☀️ Jane Austen, September 17…
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“This world is out of date” Irish novelist and playwright, Kate O'Brien died #OnThisDay in 1974 #ReadMoreWomen
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“If our love is a sin, then heaven must be full of such tender and selfless sinning as ours.” Radclyffe Hall was born #OnThisDay in 1880 #ReadMoreWomen
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"My little dog - a heartbeat at my feet." Edith Wharton died #OnThisDay in 1937 #ReadMoreWomen
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“It is simply this: do not tire, never lose interest, never grow indifferent—lose your invaluable curiosity and you let yourself die. It's as simple as that.” Tove Jansson was born #OnThisDay in 1914 #ReadMoreWomen
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“So long as you write it away regularly nothing can really hurt you.” Shirley Jackson died #OnThisDay in 1965 #ReadMoreWomen
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“Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.” Jamaica Kincaid #ReadMoreWomen
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who clean the house who cook the food who bless the babies who stay too true who make the clothes who buy the shoes who sleep too little who sing no blues Mahogany L. Browne, ‘nameless’ #ReadMoreWomen
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Where to begin... Maya Angelou, Virginia Woolf, Octavia Butler, Ursula K Le Guin #ReadMoreWomen
@WomenRead I’ve done portraits of a variety of brilliant women, but what other female writers might you and your followers suggest? Check out my Etsy for more of my work 😉 #printmaking #linoprint #etsy #pwprintstudio
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RT @LucyScholes: For this month's Re-Covered column, I've written about Alethea Hayter's pioneering group biography 'A Sultry Month', the p…
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“Time was a wave, almost cruel in its relentlessness as it whisked her life downstream, a life she had to constantly strain to keep from breaking apart.” Han Kang #ReadMoreWomen
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