With the recent passing of literary icon Harper Lee, it’s the perfect time to remind ourselves of the powerful presence of female authors in this world. If you’ve been considering getting a tattoo and are a fan of the written word, you might want to pick a phrase or image that emblematizes one of their incredible works. What a meaningful way to declare the importance of these icons to future generations!
Seen here, Gertrude Stein’s immortal line, “The difference is spreading.” Could she be more topical?
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J.K. Rowling
Image Credit: for_reading_addicts/Instagram “It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live.” To me, this is the most profound J.K. Rowling quote of all time.
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Anaïs Nin
Image Credit: landiceleigh/Instagram “We don’t see things as they are. We see them as we are.” From Nin’s 1961 novel Seduction of the Minotaur.
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Sylvia Plath
Image Credit: carmengallery/Instagram A gorgeous interpretation of Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar.
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Ayn Rand
Image Credit: jessguercia/Instagram A concept from Rand’s principle of objectivism, no doubt.
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Harper Lee
Image Credit: sdubin/Instagram Perhaps the most memorable image from Harper Lee’s iconic novel To Kill a Mockingbird.
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Jane Austen
Image Credit: geekly_chicly/Instagram “Most ardently.” Austen’s Pride and Prejudice is filled with great lines, but this descriptor encapsulates them all.
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Virginia Woolf
Image Credit: Ashley Wilde/Blogspot “Knitting is the saving of life.” Oh, Virginia Woolf. Sardonic even in your tattoos.
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Charlotte Brontë
Image Credit: trishandchips1/Instagram “Reader, I married him.” Perhaps the most famous quote from Brontë’s Jane Eyre.
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Suzanne Collins
Image Credit: heatherrb/Instagram “Hope is the only thing stronger than fear.” Classic, from The Hunger Games.
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Sharon Olds
Image Credit: annarachel81/Instagram “The single body alone in the universe against its own best time.” — Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Sharon Olds.
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Madeleine L’Engle
Image Credit: mofo83/Instagram “You don’t have to understand things for them to be.” One of my absolute favorite quotes from A Wrinkle in Time.
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Maya Angelou
Image Credit: snap.happens/Instagram “Still I rise.” The immortal words of the great Maya Angelou.
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