Alessandra Stanley quotes:

When Shonda Rhimes writes her autobiography, it should be called How to Get Away With Being an Angry Black Woman.

One of the less vaunted joys of Austen is that she is one of the greatest writers in the English language who also happened to write witty romance novels. Women enjoy the love stories in Austen the same way men read Hemingway for the hunting and fishing: it provides guiltless pleasure.