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.
"Now the white prairie was sky, and the stars lay under my feet." - Zitkala-Ša From her short story collection American Indian Stories, publish...
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"Prudence allows too little room for the mysterious whisperings of life." - Margaret Fuller This was Fuller's advice to Emerson on living a little...
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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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"And the Spring would come again! Oh, it would come again!" - Willa Cather From her novel O Pioneers! The illustration depicts several themes from...
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"There is a certain slant of light on winter afternoons" - Emily Dickinson Dickinson's famously rigid meter and rhyme scheme seemed quaint and alm...
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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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"Run mad as often as you choose" - Jane Austen Everyone needs to cut loose once in a while, to throw off the restraints (in this case, some seriou...
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"Individuality is more than nationality." - Sui Sin Far From her collection Leaves from the Mental Portfolio of an Eurasian, 1890. Sui Sin Far as ...
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