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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

[Madelaine Lucas @madelaine_lucas]

I wrote about unconventional heroines, screwball comedies & the pleasures of language itself in The Bloater by Rosemary Tonks. TY @astra_mag for the opportunity & @Samuel_Rutter for the editorial wisdom 💘
https://t.co/mINncd9I3V

[Midas @midascampaigns]

"We need to raise our voices ourselves"

It's #WITMonth! Founder of independent publisher @3TimesRebel, Bibiana Mas, talks to host @ben_d on the #TheCultureShot about championing female voices & minority languages in fiction.

LISTEN: https://t.co/ppbb2yv7y5

#podcast #feminism

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"I hate writing, I love having written."

Dorothy Parker #ReadMoreWomen

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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

[Jane Austen’s House @JaneAustenHouse]

“What dreadful Hot weather we have! – It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.” ☀️

Jane Austen, September 1796

#heatwave #janeausten #janeaustenshouse

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“This world is out of date”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

[PW Print Studio @PWPrintstudio]

@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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@PWPrintstudio Love that one of Shirley Jackson!

[Lucy Scholes @LucyScholes]

For this month's Re-Covered column, I've written about Alethea Hayter's pioneering group biography 'A Sultry Month', the plot of which pivots on a tragic event that took place in London 176 years ago today. Originally published in 1965, it's about to be re-issued by @FaberBooks!

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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