/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.18069841]

Who's your favorite female author and why?

[Anonymous No.18069846]

don't have any, female writers are generally subpar
I'm trans btw not sure if that matters

[Anonymous No.18069881]

Post it

[Anonymous No.18069885]

The only female writer I ever liked was Evelyn Waugh. All the rest were pure cancer.

[Anonymous No.18069910]

>>18069841
Djuna Barnes. Because.

[Anonymous No.18069958]

Savitri Devi because of her ideological consistency and proven intelligence during a time when women were oppressed in all forms of higher education.

[Jesus No.18070155]

>>18069841
does she pay you? doing it for free? for a chance to sniff her holes?

[Anonymous No.18070189]

>>18069958
>schizo bitch LARPing as a pajeeta
stunning

[Anonymous No.18070243]

>>18069958
She’s a racetraitor and a schizo

[Anonymous No.18070256]

>>18070243
so the standard women now she was ahead of her time

[Anonymous No.18070292]

>>18070256
You jerkoff to BLACKED.

[Anonymous No.18070509]

>>18069841
agatha christie

[Anonymous No.18070534]

Vanessa Place
unironically the only contemporary female writer that is respectable

[Anonymous No.18070561]

Marilyn Robinson.
There aren't many great, contemporary, Christian authors. When you find one you Gregg holds of them with both hands.

[Anonymous No.18070570]

>>18069841
Sei Shonagon.

>In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.

>Pleasing things: finding a large number of tales that one has not read before. Or acquiring the second volume of a tale whose first volume one has enjoyed. But often it is a disappointment.

>In spring it is the dawn that is most beautiful. As the light creeps over the hills, their outlines are dyed a faint red and wisps of purplish cloud trail over them. In summer the nights. Not only when the moon shines, but on dark nights too, as the fireflies flit to and fro, and even when it rains, how beautiful it is! In autumn, the evenings, when the glittering sun sinks close to the edge of the hills and the crows fly back to their nests in threes and fours and twos; more charming still is a file of wild geese, like specks in the distant sky. When the sun has set, one's heart is moved by the sound of the wind and the hum of the insects. In winter the early mornings. It is beautiful indeed when snow has fallen during the night, but splendid too when the ground is white with frost; or even when there is no snow or frost, but it is simply very cold and the attendants hurry from room to room stirring up the fires and bringing charcoal, how well this fits the season's mood! But as noon approaches and the cold wears off, no one bothers to keep the braziers alight, and soon nothing remains but piles of white ashes.

>A man who has nothing in particular to recommend him discusses all sorts of subjects at random as if he knew everything.

>I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.

>To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you’re somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.

>Letters are commonplace enough, yet what splendid things they are! When someone is in a distant province and one is worried about him, and then a letter suddenly arrives, one feels as though one were seeing him face to face. Again, it is a great comfort to have expressed one's feelings in a letter even though one knows it cannot yet have arrived. If letters did not exist, what dark depressions would come over one! When one has been worrying about something and wants to tell a certain person about it, what a relief it is to put it all down in a letter! Still greater is one's joy when a reply arrives. At that moment a letter really seems like an elixir of life.

>How ever did I pass
>the time before I knew you?
>I think of that past time
>as now I pass each passing day
>in lonely sorrow, lacking you.

>If writing did not exist, what terrible depressions we should suffer from.

>Someone who butts in when you're talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who butts in, be they child or adult, is most infuriating.

[Anonymous No.18070637]

>>18070570
>Someone who butts in when you're talking and smugly provides the ending herself. Indeed anyone who butts in, be they child or adult, is most infuriating.
kek btfo by a child interrupting you
>To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you’re somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.
literal rupi kaur
>I am the sort of person who approves of what others abhor and detests the things they like.
so edgy

[Anonymous No.18070669]

>>18070189
You will never speak 11 languages like her.

>>18070243
She wasn't a race traitor. She married purely for citizenship and furthering her ideology. She was a known lesbian who had a fling with a woman while imprisoned. Anyone who has read her knows this.

[Anonymous No.18070671]

>>18070637
A thoroughly enriching and nuanced post - thank you, anon.

[Anonymous No.18070676]

>>18069841
Woolf for novels and essays, Paglia for philosophy, and Schnackenberg for poetry.

[Anonymous No.18070683]

Charlotte Brontë. Her writings are extremely charming and I really enjoy the slow yet steady progression of her characters. Her depiction of relationships is both natural and endearing.

[Anonymous No.18070749]

Donna Tartt

[Anonymous No.18070813]

>>18069910
Based. I just copped nightwood and read the first 5 pages and the style was excellent

[Anonymous No.18070815]

>>18070671
it's a non-male author. why should i be nuanced when criticizing something with zero nuance itself

[Anonymous No.18070822]

>>18069841
The only good one

[Anonymous No.18070961]

>>18070815
>lol fuck women amirite!? c-can you tell i'm not a newfag?
Why do you attempt to fit in so much? Is discussing literature not enough for you?

[Anonymous No.18070995]

>>18069885
kek

[Anonymous No.18071013]

>>18070961
fit in? why is it my fault that women almost always suck when it comes to art?

[Anonymous No.18071056]

>>18069841
I haven't read an entire book by a female

[Anonymous No.18071059]

>>18071013
I've really gotten the swelling feeling that 4chan isn't for me anymore over these last few years. Perhaps I should leave instead of constantly (and legitimately) pleading of your ilk that you go back. You're really just here for an echo-chamber, a place to virtue-signal like some fucking subreddit.

[Anonymous No.18071069]

>>18071059
You will literally never be a real woman

[Anonymous No.18071083]

>>18071059
Yes, you should leave.

[Anonymous No.18071093]

>>18071069
Hey, welcome! You'll fit right in here.
>>18071083
Greener pastures it is, then. I'd still hope that you stop being retarded, but miracles are miracles.

[࿇ C Œ M G E N V S ࿇ !1IK0C7irKA No.18071125]

>>18071059
yes leave you fucking woman sympathizer. if you want me to be politically correct just to 'fit in' to your worldview then kindly kys. /lit/ is an incel board. so fuck your mother

[Anonymous No.18071263]

All she cared about was her poetry. She lived in a world where literary women could have commercial success but she didn’t want anyone messing with her work and kept it to herself apart from sharing it with a few trusted people.

[Anonymous No.18071275]

>>18069841
Mary Shelley is the only female author worthy of praise.

[Anonymous No.18071287]

>>18071275
her chad husband was her ghostwriter

[Anonymous No.18071331]

>>18071125
>no caps
wtf did you do with him?

[Anonymous No.18071386]

>>18070243
You are not even aryan you negrified mutt unlike the brahmin she married.

[Anonymous No.18071421]

>>18069841
Not sure about nonfiction authors, but I enjoyed the works of Ursula K. Le Guin quite a lot.
Some of the most refined fantasy world-building was done by her.

[Anonymous No.18071482]

>>18069841

[Anonymous No.18071555]

>>18069841
Jane Austen made Nabokov admit women could write.

[Anonymous No.18071610]

>>18070570
>woman
>the VERY FIRST quote is about sex

Clockwork.

[Anonymous No.18071625]

>>18071482
Why is she wearing her glasses

[Anonymous No.18071672]

>>18071625
What a dumb question.

[Anonymous No.18071681]

>>18071482
is this real?
also: moar

[Anonymous No.18071740]

I guess Sylvia Plath, Jane Austen, or Mary Shelley.

[Anonymous No.18071775]

I find women writers not all that interested in creating things that I would enjoy.
They seem to be more focused on taking things I enjoy away from me.

[Anonymous No.18071787]

>>18071610
It's a random collection of quotes from Goodreads, anon. It reflects the tastes of the users rather than the author.

[Anonymous No.18071840]

>>18071482
Please anon, where ?

[Anonymous No.18071856]

>>18071482
Whore! Makes jewtube bucks out of /lit/ incels but bangs Chads like any common slut!

[Anonymous No.18071883]

>>18071386
>negrified mutt
I’m european you fucking nigger
Your schizo whore was a married a poo-in-loo shitskin
Pic rel her “aryan” husband

[Anonymous No.18071910]

>>18071625
Because she can't see without them

[Anonymous No.18071916]

>>18071787

>ask classmates what they're researching
>male classmates are all researching fascinating, unique, or at least ambitious things
>woman: "Misogyny in Rome"
>woman: "Misogyny and Hamlet"
>woman: "The intersection of misogyny and periods in Hamlet"
>woman: "Women"
>woman: "Opinions about women having sex in Weimar newspapers"
>woman: "Women in the work of Robert Musil"
>woman: "Vagina"
>woman: "I have a vagina"
>woman: "I'm a woman btw. Vagina here"
>woman: "Sex and periods in gender"
>woman: "Woman perceptions of woman, ,vagina, cooters breasts woman period I'm on my period clitorises in the work of the band Oingo Boingo and Hamlet's Perception of Clitoris Vagina Gender Studies"
>woman: "Queering Gender in Medieval Manuscripts: Your period or MY period?"
>woman: "Misogyny, Periods, and You: Ernst Cassirer on Substance, Function, and My Gay Love Affair with Gender Studies"
>woman: "Women in 'Woman's Work': Gendering Gender in the Social Sciences"
>woman: "Prostitution and Gender in Antebellum Calcutta"
>woman: "Gender"
>woman: "Sex and gender studies"
>woman: "Tampons, pads, and ironclads: Stonewall Jackson and Freebleeding"
>woman: "Einstein contra Bergson: Who rapes me more by having existed?"

[Anonymous No.18071956]

>>18071916
Hot

[Anonymous No.18071963]

>>18070637
>To wash your hair, apply your makeup and put on clothes that are well-scented with incense. Even if you’re somewhere where no one special will see you, you still feel a heady sense of pleasure inside.
I like this one

[Anonymous No.18072012]

>>18071916
- and what has this to do with Sei Shonagon...?

[Anonymous No.18072026]

>>18071672
>>18071910
What kind of a poindexter fucks in classes.

[Anonymous No.18072046]

>>18069841
Sylvia Plath because she wasn't fake.
And Mystic is a great poem.

[Anonymous No.18072068]

>>18072026
Glasses can be hot. I still need to know if that was kat and if yes where the video is to be found.

[Anonymous No.18072083]

>>18072068
Hot outside of sex
It's not, because she's probably a virgin or if not only has had sex with her father, one of his friends, and some shitlib from glass, and wouldn't know positions.

[Anonymous No.18072117]

>>18072083
Eh
Is she your waifu ? Sounds awfully protective.

[Anonymous No.18072122]

>>18072083
>she's probably a virgin
Anon...

[Anonymous No.18072127]

>>18069841
Jan Kerouac - tragic life, liked her father. Not a great writer though.
Mary Shelley - Not very good, but chose interesting subjects. Mathilda and Falkner are enough to respect her, although I'm pretty sure Percy Shelley should get a co-author credit for Frankenstein
Emily Bronte- Just based, let's be honest
Marguerite Yourcenar- same as above
Jane Austen - decent, not great
Flannery- comfy

>>18069958
>likes pajeets

>>18070509
no

>>18070561
The Bill Forsyth movie was beeter than her one book it was based off. Jesus Christ I love that film.

>>18070570
Pillow Book?

>>18070683
For me it's Emily, Charlotte was too sane

>>18070822
no

>>18071263
decent, respectable desu. Pretty good.

>>18071275
>>18071287
I mean stuff like Mathilda is extremely poorly-written, but she had a knack for doing interesting subject matter. I ignore Frankenstein when discussing her, her other books are fine enough to read.

>>18071555
No he didn't he taught Mansfield Park, that 'great,' quote isn't sourced anywhere. He also liked Shirley Jackson's short story.

[Anonymous No.18072138]

>>18072122
She's a virgin insofar as she hasn't had a real dicking.

>>18072117
No I don't even find her that attractive and her videos are terribly annoying, but I'm just being frank here.

[Anonymous No.18072146]

>ctrl f "denise pinch"
>0 results
ngmi

[Anonymous No.18072153]

>>18072138
Reads like your shielding yourself. I dont even watch her, just seen her face on here. Still want to see source of the image.

[Anonymous No.18072181]

>>18072127
>Pillow Book?
Yes.

[Anonymous No.18072315]

Virginia Woolf

[Anonymous No.18072601]

Bump for Kats delicious nudes. NOW.

[Anonymous No.18072627]

>>18069841
ive never read a book written by a woman

[Anonymous No.18072650]

Jean Stafford

[Anonymous No.18072939]

>>18069841
Eudora Welty by far.
>She wept for what happened to life.
Kino in context. The Optimist's Daughter is one of very few books that have made me cry.

[Anonymous No.18072950]

>>18072627
>he hasn't read The Tale of Genji
Go back, plebe.

[Anonymous No.18072985]

>>18069841
The one who wrote the Odyssey

[Anonymous No.18072998]

>>18072950
im so sory

[Anonymous No.18073012]

>>18069841
Margaret Mitchell

[Anonymous No.18073029]

>>18069841
>bareback dreams

[Anonymous No.18073046]

>>18072985
Absolutely based Butler bro.

[Anonymous No.18073050]

>>18071681
it's real, it's russian pornhub whore

[Anonymous No.18073051]

>>18073050
Source. Also sad that its not kat :((

[Anonymous No.18073127]

>>18073051
don't remember
iirc she deleted all videos

[Anonymous No.18073145]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2CBpXlmfJA

>i shattered your inner thighs and laughed while i was doing it

Reminder that her and her sister are INSATIABLE muff huffers.

[Anonymous No.18073147]

>>18073127
Why live ?

[Anonymous No.18073156]

>>18073147
found it: sextaseptima

[Anonymous No.18073213]

>>18073156
Thanks anon

[Anonymous No.18073299]

>>18069841
Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights it's probably one of the best English Novels of the Romantic era. Certain elements - mirrors, duality, the perception of time, are similar to Borges and Nabokov, though done in a premodern style.

[Anonymous No.18073522]

>>18069910
Came here to say this. I even have a cat named Djuna

[Anonymous No.18073646]

>>18071263
The grad student producers licensed by apple did her dirty

[Anonymous No.18074674]

>>18069841
Donna Tartt

[Anonymous No.18074720]

[Anonymous No.18074736]

>>18069841
Homer

[Anonymous No.18074743]

>>18069841
i don't read women nor do i read jezebel threads

[Anonymous No.18075563]

Mickey Zucker Reichert. Married to her.

[Anonymous No.18075566]

xD

[Anonymous No.18075576]

>>18069841
I've only read samples of fe.ale authors and they're all trash. Give me some good sci gi or fantasy that would change my mind

[Anonymous No.18075609]

>>18069841
Don't know any, lol

[Anonymous No.18075657]

>>18069841
middlemarch was good
fuck off yes it was

[Anonymous No.18075659]

>>18069841
who is this and are there any pics of her feet?

[Anonymous No.18075664]

j.k rowling
i wanna be a wizard

[Anonymous No.18075712]

>>18075659
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbxOJwr0lFc

[Anonymous No.18075736]

>>18071125
ALL CAPS MOTHERFUCKER DO YOU SPEAK IT

[Anonymous No.18075751]

>>18075736
tell ya there was a riot in my heart when all caps died

[Anonymous No.18075758]

>>18069841
Ayn Rand because fuck commies

[Anonymous No.18075762]

>>18071059
everyone would be better off never coming back to this website. BUT, there are people who disagree with the prevailing politics and norms here -- we've just gotten good at mentally filtering out unproductive chuds.

[Anonymous No.18076253]

>>18071263
Unfathomably based. Dickinson is god tier.

[Anonymous No.18076319]

>>18075758
came here to post this

[Anonymous No.18076329]

>>18075712
man she looks like she doesn't shave down there.

she looks like the type of girl to diddle her hairy muff with her brothers electric toothbrush while reading Sarah J Maas and leave a single pubic hair lodged between the bristles afterwards

[Anonymous No.18076332]

>>18075758
I thought Ayn Rand was a commie?

[Anonymous No.18076370]

imagine if you could take a cotton swab and wipe it between the crevice of her big and second toe after she just got done running a marathon and putting it in a petri dish with agar so you could have your very own paperbackdreams footsweat bacteria colony, and you could take care of it over the course of decades, graduating to larger and larger petri dishes as it grows, reading it books (all of which are on her book list), and playing it bach's fugues and chopin's preludes on the piano, and showering it with words of love and devotion until one day it finally gains sentience and forms the words 'dada' in the petri dish' at which point you lift the lid and consume it all with a yogurt spoon and the sentient foot bacteria colony becomes one with your own gut flora

[Anonymous No.18076377]

Anyone read Carson McCullers? I’m interested in her

[Anonymous No.18076450]

>>18069841
Margaret Atwood
She wrote Oryx and Crake which was my favourite book in middle school.

[Anonymous No.18076506]

>>18069841
flannery o'connor

[Anonymous No.18076832]

>>18070669
The lesbian attraction is definitely there in Defiance, but she also condemns acting on homosexual impulses as disgusting in the same book. She's the greatest woman of the 20th century.

[Anonymous No.18076856]

>>18075712
She prides herself on being an enthusiastic consumer of garbage. Sad!

[Anonymous No.18076877]

>>18071883
You'll never be a true aryan if you're from Europe. Gargle all the points of Gobineau and his ideological descendants but you're just a northerner barbarian. You have no past before 15th century so you're desperate to steal others' just like your secretly beloved blacks.
If you're from South, that's even worse.

[Anonymous No.18077031]

>>18071916
>Personal experience as a reference point

[Anonymous No.18077277]

She's so cute bros
>ywn cuddle with Sei Shonagon in a comfy pillowful room

[Anonymous No.18077283]

>>18077277
Oh wait, that's Shikibu. Well, my point still stands

[Anonymous No.18077311]

>>18071916
heh

[Anonymous No.18077940]

>>18072127
>For me it's Emily, Charlotte was too sane
I have yet to read her, but I'm really looking forward to doing so.

[Anonymous No.18078709]

>>18069841
Toni Morrison. I really like 'Paradise' and 'Love'.

[Anonymous No.18078721]

>ctrl+f Vanessa Place
>1 result
>no (You)'s
/lit/is a pseud board

[Anonymous No.18079794]

>>18077277
>>18077283
patrician spotted

[Anonymous No.18079881]

>>18078721
Is she actually good? 'Cause Notes on Conceptualisms read like shit.

[Anonymous No.18079998]

>>18071916
Holy fuck I'm dying

[Anonymous No.18080048]

>>18077277
Imagine how frail and helpless she must've felt under all those layers of clothing + that long hair preventing her from moving too much + her pampered lifestyle, only using her hands to write. She must've been soft and pale as fuck.

[Anonymous No.18080134]

>>18071916
kek

[Anonymous No.18080855]

bump

[Anonymous No.18080881]

>>18079881
read La Medusa