From Sappho’s ancient call-to-action, "become a voice," to Virginia Woolf’s call for intellectual freedom in A Room of One's Own, these foundational writers had a remarkable impact on future generations. Our illustrations are a visual ode to these visionary women, and our way of drawing attention to the immense contribution women writers have made.
"My candle burns at both ends;it will not last the night;But ah, my foes, and oh my friends -It gives a lovely light!" - Edna St. Vincent Millay T...
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"Hope is the thing with feathers" - Emily Dickinson For this illustration, we used Emily Dickinson's own words as line elements to create the "th...
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"Become a voice." - Sappho From the poetry of Sappho. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine art paper made in New York • Ele...
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"I will write my story for my better self." - Elizabeth Barrett Browning From her poem Aurora Leigh. • 11x14 inch art print with white border •...
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"Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door." - Emily Dickinson We love the way this quotation captures Emily Dickinson's quiet streng...
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"Imagination! Who can sing thy force?" - Phyllis Wheatley From her lyrical poem, On Imagination Phyllis Wheatley’s story is exceptional. As a you...
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"If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain." - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's extraordinary poetry at its most intimate. It ne...
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"If you are scorched earth, I will be warm rain." - Murasaki Shikibu This lovely line is from Shikibu’s 11th century, profoundly influential work ...
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"Until we are all free, we are none of us free." - Emma Lazarus Best known for her poem The New Colossus, which is inscribed on the Statue of Li...
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"The Future is only dark from outside - Leap into it, and it explodes with Light." - Mina Loy From her manifesto Aphorisms on Futurism, first pub...
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"Fate is a cunning hussy." - Elizabeth Gaskell An amusing zinger from an unfairly overlooked Victorian novelist. The fun passage (which defies t...
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"I taste a liquor never brewed" - Emily Dickinson From Emily Dickinson's ecstatic poem on communing with nature. We used another line from the po...
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"Yes I do, darling, I love you." - Zora Neale Hurston We discovered this disarmingly simple, yet powerful quotation while reading one of Ms. Hurst...
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"Fate is strong, but love is stronger." - Emily Brontë From her poem The Two Children. • 11x14 inch art print with white border • Premium, fine ...
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"Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose." - Gertrude Stein From her poem, Sacred Emily. The rose, rich with meaning and cultural weight, has become ...
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"All things that pass are wisdom's looking glass." - Christina Rossetti It is often the most difficult lessons in life that shape us into the best...
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"Every mother should be a true artist." - Frances Harper From her short story, The Two Offers. It was the first short story published by an Afric...
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"Even the iris bends when a butterfly lights upon it." - Amy Lowell Amy Lowell worked tirelessly to make poetry relevant again in America. She wa...
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"And now - unwittingly you've made me dream of violets" - Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson From her poem Sonnet, written in 1922. Poet, essayist, diarist...
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"Whirl up, sea—whirl your pointed pines,splash your great pineson our rocks,hurl your green over us,cover us with your pools of fir." - H.D. ...
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