„Sappho and Emily Dickinson are the only woman geniuses in poetic history.“

— Camille Paglia

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„For the rest of history, all over the world, people will be trying to save this same dead woman. This woman who just wanted to die.“
— Chuck Palahniuk
„She has been condemned to death by hanging. A manmay escape this death by becoming the hangman, awoman by marrying the hangman. But at the presenttime there is no hangman; thus there is no escape.There is only a death, indefinitely postponed. This isnot fantasy, it is history.“
— Margaret Atwood
„There is properly no history; only biography.“
— Ralph Waldo Emerson