Suzanne Fox

“When the memory of one's predecessors is buried, the assumption persists that there were none and each generation of women believes itself to be faced with the burden of doing everything for the first time. And if no one ever did it before, if no woman was ever that socially sacred creature, "a great writer," why do we think we can succeed now?”
― Joanna Russ, How to Suppress Women's Writing

“What if I told you I’m incapable of tolerating my own heart?”
― Virginia Woolf, Night and Day

“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women”
― Virginia Woolf, A Room of One’s Own

“... it had become agreed that Jane would be excused household duties. It sounds like a tiny thing – and indeed it was – but a tiny trickle of water gradually hollows out a stone. Jane’s ducking out of the housework in order to write would lead inexorably onwards, upwards, towards women working, to women winning power in a world of men. This is the significance of trying to reconstruct the detail of Jane Austen’s daily life.”
― Lucy Worsley, Jane Austen at Home