“We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it felt like to be alive in our time. That's what our job is as writers is to present that and create it. Our job as writers isn't to make as much money as we can. Our job is to create a record of this time. That's why if you leave out women and the stories of women, we failed at our mission. All of us. Men and women.” IfsMenStoriesAgeJobsOrderFeltRecordsAliveMen And WomenMissionsOur Time Author:Marsha Norman
“Had there been no Renaissance and no Italian influence to bring in the stories of other lands English history would, it may be, have become as important to the English imagination as the Greek Myths to the Greek imagination; and many plays by many poets would have woven it into a single story whose contours, vast as those of Greek myth, would have made living men and women seem like swallows building their nests under the architrave of some Temple of the Giants.” MenMayMadeImportantPlayStoriesSeemsImaginationInfluenceLandBuildingPoetMen And WomenMythGreekGiantsTemplesItalianNestsRenaissanceWovenEnglish HistoryGreek Myth Book:The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays Source: The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Volume IV: Early Essays
“I think the gender story will become less fraught with hard edges - and not that we'll have androgyny, but that men and women will move more fluidly into each other's domains.” ThinkingMenHardStoriesMovingMen And WomenEdgesGenderDomainAndrogyny Author:Elizabeth Lesser