Genre :: Feminism (10 books)

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  #14

  To the Lighthouse

  by Virginia Woolf

  (14 Reviews)

  642 Points

  "Yes, of course, if it's fine tomorrow," said Mrs. Ramsay. "But you'll have to be up with the lark," she added.

  

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  #28

  The Color Purple

  by Alice Walker

  (15 Reviews)

  392 Points

  "You better not never tell nobody but God. It'd kill your mammy."

  

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  #33

  Mrs Dalloway

  by Virginia Woolf

  (13 Reviews)

  365 Points

  "Mrs. Dalloway said she would buy the flowers herself. For Lucy had her work cut out for her. The doors would be taken off their hinges; Rumpelmayer’s men were coming. And then, thought Clarissa..."

  

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  #50

  The Handmaid’s Tale

  by Margaret Atwood

  (14 Reviews)

  316 Points

  "We slept in what had once been the gymnasium."

  

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  #65

  The Golden Notebook

  by Doris Lessing

  (4 Reviews)

  266 Points

  "The two women were alone in the London flat."

  

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  #229

  The Second Sex

  by Simone de Beauvoir

  (4 Reviews)

  90 Points

  "Woman?"

  

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  #230

  The Awakening

  by Kate Chopin

  (7 Reviews)

  89 Points

  "A green and yellow parrot, which hung in a cage outside, kept repeating over and over: "Allez vous-en! Allez vous-en! Sapristi! That's all right!""

  

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  #468

  A Room of One's Own

  by Virginia Woolf

  (6 Reviews)

  32 Points

  "But, you may say, we asked you to speak about women and fiction -- what has that got to do with a room of one's own? I will try to explain."

  

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  #507

  The road from Coorain

  by Jill Ker Conway

  (3 Reviews)

  24 Points

  "The western plains of New South Wales are grasslands."

  

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  #581

  Rubyfruit Jungle

  by Rita Mae Brown

  (2 Reviews)

  10 Points

  "No one remembers her beginnings."

  

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