"Feminist literary critics have shown how in the 19th century women writers began to acknowledge women as their muses and their role models... Elizabeth Barrett Browning admired the work of George Sand and Mme. de Staël, while her work, in its turn, was an inspiration to Emily Dickinson. Margaret Fuller and Sarah Orne Jewett acknowledged their indebtedness to Mme. de Staël, the author of Corinne... The list could be indefinitely extended to show the almost desperate search of writing women for authoritative female predecessors."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Gerda Lerner The Creation of Feminist Consciousness (1993)
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Anne_Louise_Germaine_de_Sta%C3%ABl
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
47 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Anne Louise Germaine de Staël →
Related Quotes
"Ought not every woman, like every man, to follow the bent of her own talents?"
"Tout comprendre rend très-indulgent."
"Be happy, but be so by piety."
"Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities."
"On cesse de s'aimer si quelqu'un ne nous aime."
"L'amour est l'histoire de la vie des femmes; c'est un épisode dans celle des hommes."
"The evil arising from mental improvement can be corrected only by a still further progress in that very improvement. …"
"If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but whe…"
"One must, in one's life, make a choice between boredom and suffering."
"The human mind always makes progress, but it is a progress in spirals."