We need art to live fully and to grow healthy. Without it we are dry husks drifting aimlessly on every ill wind, our futures without promise and our present without grace.
(Maya Angelou, "Art for the Sake of the Soul," in Even the Stars Look Lonesome, p.133)
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• Women writers and artists speaking about the creative process
• Quotes on women writers and artists, and other creative women
What this blog is about
This is not a typical "quotes" blog. Rather than succinct sayings or tiny snippets of a writer's work, it is a slowly growing collection of text by and about women writers and artists. It also occasionally delves into how creative women handle marriage and children. The text is taken from creative women themselves, as well as from scholars and others writing about women in the arts.
Frequency of updates
Usually updated once a week. Subscribe to the RSS Feed if you'd like the entries automatically dumped to your email Inbox.
Topics/People Quoted
- acknowledgement (1)
- actors--Fonda-Jane (1)
- actors--Hepburn-Katherine (1)
- adolescence (2)
- African writers (1)
- African-American experience (1)
- artists--Bush-Kate (1)
- artists--Madonna (1)
- artists--mitchell-joni (1)
- autobiography (2)
- career (1)
- childhood (1)
- consciousness (2)
- criticism (1)
- domesticity (2)
- female body (2)
- feminine (2)
- feminist writers (4)
- humor (1)
- inspiration (1)
- journals (3)
- lyrics (1)
- men (1)
- midwives (1)
- money (1)
- motherhood (4)
- music (1)
- northrup-christiane (1)
- novelists (3)
- oral histories (1)
- pioneer women (1)
- poets (2)
- psychology (3)
- reading (2)
- reproduction (1)
- self-expression (4)
- singers (3)
- solitude (3)
- writers--Angelou-Maya (1)
- writers--Atwood-Margaret (1)
- writers--Austen-Jane (1)
- writers--Cartland-Dame Barbara (1)
- writers--Cofer-Judith Ortiz (1)
- writers--Danticat-Edwidge (1)
- writers--Dickinson-Emily (1)
- writers--Didion-Joan (1)
- writers--Dillard-Annie (1)
- writers--Dowd-Maureen (1)
- writers--hammad-suheir (1)
- writers--Harjo-Joy (1)
- writers--hooks-bell (2)
- writers--Kingsolver-Barbara (1)
- writers--L'Engle-Madeleine (1)
- writers--Lebowitz-Fran (1)
- writers--Minot-Susan (2)
- writers--Montagu-Ashley (1)
- writers--Morrison-Toni (1)
- writers--O'Connor-Flannery (1)
- writers--Oates-Joyce Carol (1)
- writers--Olsen-Tillie (1)
- writers--Parker-Dorothy (1)
- writers--Plath-Sylvia (2)
- writers--Rice-Anne (1)
- writers--rich-adrienne (1)
- writers--Roseman-Janet-Lynn (1)
- writers--Shields-Carol (1)
- writers--Smith-Katherine (1)
- writers--Tabios-Eileen (1)
- writers--Vera-Yvonne (2)
- writers--Walker-Alice (1)
- writers--Walker-Rebecca (1)
- writers--Welty-Eudora (1)
- writers--Woolf-Virginia (2)
- writers-childless (2)
- writers-English (2)
- writers-German (1)
- writers-Japanese (1)
- writing (2)
- writing process (1)
Send us your quotes
If you have a quote about a creative woman you'd like to include, please send an electronic version to thebethblevins -at- gmail.com, embedded in the message. We'll give you an attribution and link to your web page or biography.
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2. Using the Amazon widget to buy any of the books listed there that you might want to buy (clicking on the link here will send you straight to Amazon and will give me a tiny commission if you purchase it).
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