Women Writers

From Sappho's early call-to-action, 'become a voice,' to Emily Dickinson's 'hope is the thing with feathers,' this boldly illustrated collection br...

"She was becoming herself, casting aside that fictitious self which we assume like a garment." - Kate Chopin This poignant quotation is from Chopi...

"I am excessively diverted." - Jane Austen Aren't we all, though? With any luck, it's the fault of a delicious read. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for...

"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...

"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!"  This illustration is an ode...

"Become a voice." - Sappho From the poetry of Sappho. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for $48 (regularly $72) Code: 3PRINTSSee all prints here  • 11x...

"When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter, do they?" - Virginia Woolf Sometimes we can all use a little perspecti...

"I am no bird, and no net ensnares me." - Charlotte Brontë Despite being the daughters of a vicar and growing up in a parsonage, Anne, Charlotte, ...

"The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them." - Ida B. Wells Trailblazing journalist Ida B. Wells knew what she stood for an...

"There is no denying the wild horse in us." - Virginia Woolf   She’s all poise and pearls, but look closer: Behind the passive exterior, a passio...

"She is too fond of books and it has turned her brain." - Louisa May Alcott From her novel Work: A Story of Experience. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints ...

"Some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm." - Willa Cather From her novel The Song of the Lark. In our illustration, an ocean scene i...

"I resolved never to be conquered." - Harriet Jacobs It goes without saying that Harriet Jacobs was an extraordinary human being. From an illitera...

"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson We love the way this quotation captures Emily Dickinson's quiet streng...

"I will write my story for my better self." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Of writing many books there is no end;And I who have written much in pro...

"Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same." - Emily Bronte, "Wuthering Heights  An egg in its nest, composed of two halves that f...

"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate.  It ne...

"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...

"I am half agony, half hope." - Jane Austen The letter has arrived! But what fortune will it bring? What word? Happiness or ruin? • 11x14 inch ...

"Invention does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos." - Mary Shelley From the introduction to her novel Frankenstein. We respo...

"The libraries of the world are thrown open to me." - Mary Shelley From the novel The Last Man by Mary Shelley. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for $48 ...

"I long to do some good in the world before I leave it." - Anne Brontë From her letters. The author of The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Brontë i...

"Our deeds determine us as much as we determine our deeds." - George Eliot From her novel Adam Bede. SPECIAL OFFERAny 3 prints for $48 (regularly ...

"Forever is composed of Nows" - Emily Dickinson Why is it that the most profound human truths are so often conveyed by the most eye-roll inducing,...