Words to Live By: Women's Work Edition
Presented without comment, here is a collection of quotes that I have cheekily categorized as 'women's work'.
All are from books I have read; if you like the sounds of these books you can find out more here.
It’s all down to girls, one way or another.
Catherynne M. Valente
And women did what women had always done when they were left with a farm or a vineyard or a castle to run. They did the best they could. And sometimes they found a better way, by the exercise of desperation and mother-wit.
Kerry Greenwood
Women are always liked better if we sacrifice ourselves for something bigger—and something bigger always means including men, even though something bigger for men doesn’t usually mean including women.
Gloria Steinem
Ever notice how muses are always female? Inspiring is women’s work.
Catherynne M. Valente
I am also glad that I am showing these men that women can hold up their end. The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in which Canada and women. It is wonderful to feel the grandness of Canada in the raw, not because she is Canada but because she’s s something sublime that you were born into, some great rugged power that you are a part of.
Emily Carr
How absolutely incredible that Milicent [Patrick] was creating these masculine monsters while reveling in her lady glory. How marvellous that she refused to try and fit into the boys' club, that she was unapologetically herself and marched into that male-dominated space in her heels [...] It was a revelation to me that you can be a strong woman in a pair of steel-toed boots or a pair of sparkling pumps.
from 'The Lady From The Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Milicent Patrick' by Mallory O'Meara
You have magic in your hands, Miranda.
Jacqueline Carey
