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Even though the story [Fences] is set during the 1950s, some contemporary women might have trouble understanding her decision. -- Denzel Washington
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work. -- Camille Paglia
Patriarchy, routinely blamed for everything, produced the birth control pill, which did more to free contemporary women than feminism itself. -- Camille Paglia
Women's studies needed a syllabus and so invented a canon overnight. It puffed up clunky, mundane contemporary women authors into Oz-like, skywriting dirigibles. Our best women students are being force-fed an appalling diet of cant, drivel and malarkey. -- Camille Paglia
Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field. -- Eleanor Catton
So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that. -- Donna Leon
I think one of the reasons I've done so much period work is because I feel so depressed by how society chooses to represent women in contemporary work. -- Romola Garai
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction. -- Emma McLaughlin
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women is pretty great. Which is to say there is a ton of amazing work out there. These women are writing hard. There's much to be said. We're on it, chief. -- Jami Attenberg
A lot of men do have a fear of my ultra-femininity. Sometimes people say I look like a drag queen, that I look scary, but I think that's a fear of my confidence. Most women in contemporary culture pare down their femininity, so there's a slight androgyny about them, and I think men have got used to seeing that. -- Paloma Faith
No aspect of our contemporary lives has been untouched by women's work. -- Dyllan McGee
There are few subjects that match the social significance of women's education in the contemporary world. -- Amartya Sen
the backlash convinced the public that women's 'liberation' was the true contemporary American scourge - the source of an endless laundry list of personal, social, and economic problems. -- Susan Faludi
The many faces of intimacy: the Victorians could experience it through correspondence, but not through cohabitation; contemporary men and women can experience it through fornication, but not through friendship. -- Thomas Szasz
When I spoke at the 2012 Contemporary Women Writers' Conference in Taipei, I thought it offered an appropriate moment and site to announce my new manifesto10 and profession - to be a writer. -- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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