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QUIZ! 6 Years of Quizzes: Women’s Words – which famous female author wrote these words?

Late January sees the 6th anniversary of me writing quizzes for For Reading Addicts. Since then I have written over 800 quizzes, 2 quiz books and run out of ideas! This series of mini-quizzes goes back to the very beginning taking old ideas but with some modern updates thrown into the mix. Enjoy.

We’ve also just turned our best quizzes into a book that you can keep! Take our quizzes home, or purchase it as a gift for a friend.

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    I don’t ask myself what did I live for. That is a man’s question. I ask whom did I live for.

    • Zadie Smith
    • Elizabeth Taylor
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    I can promise you that women working together – linked, informed and educated – can bring peace and prosperity to this forsaken planet.

    • Isabel Allende
    • Arundhati Roy
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    Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

    • Virginia Wolf
    • Patricia Highsmith
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    I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures.

    • Jane Austen
    • Aphra Behn
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    I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life’s a bitch. You’ve got to go out and kick ass.

    • Maya Angelou
    • JK Rowling
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    And like an artist with no art form, she became dangerous.

    • Toni Morrison
    • Colette
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    Funny how women are ashamed of their inner fairy whereas men are forever proudly displaying their inner cowboy or fireman.

    • Dawn French
    • Kate Atkinson
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    It is really a hard life. Men will not be nice to you if you are not good-looking, and women will not be nice to you if you are.

    • Agatha Christie
    • Nancy Mitford
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    And, of course men know best about everything, except what women know better.

    • Mary Ann Evans
    • Louisa May Alcott
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    I find my own small person a standing self against the world an equality of wills I finally understand.

    • Alice Walker
    • Emily Dickinson

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