“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
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
"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
“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
“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
“What dreadful Hot weather we have! – It keeps one in a continual state of Inelegance.” ☀️
Jane Austen, September 1796
#heatwave#janeausten#janeaustenshouse
“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
“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
“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
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
@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
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!
“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