Elizabeth Akers Allen
Jane Austen
Joanna Baillie
Anna Lætitia Barbauld
Katharine Lee Bates
Aphra Behn
Matilda Betham-Edwards
Louisa Sarah Bevington
Susanna Blamire
Ann Eliza Bleecker
Mathilde Blind
Katherine Bradley
and Edith Cooper
Anne Bradstreet
Anne Bronte
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Brontë
Maria Gowen Brooks
Mary Ann Browne
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Alice Cary
Margaret Cavendish
Isabella Valancy Crawford
Sor Juana Ines de La Cruz
Lucretia Maria Davidson
Emily Dickinson
Emma Catherine Embury
Anne Finch
Felicia Dorothea Hemans
Katherine Tynan Hinkson
Helen Hunt Jackson
Anne Killigrew
Emma Lazarus
Amy Levy
Amy Lowell
Anne Lynch
Katherine Mansfield
Charlotte Mew
Alice Meynell
Mary Russell Mitford
Julia A. Moore
Louise Chandler Moulton
Elizabeth Anne Smart Le Noir
Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
Katherine Philips
Adelaide Anne Procter
Christina G. Rossetti
Anna Seward
Dora Sigerson Shorter
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
Charlotte Smith
Mary Ashley Townsend
Jane Turell
Augusta Webster
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Lady Jane Wilde
Constance Fenimore Woolson
Elinor Wylie
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Welcome to WOW...Words Of Women!
Here you will find a huge collection of poetry and writing by women over the centuries.
"Now you understand
Just why my head's not bowed.
I don't shout or jump about
Or have to talk real loud.
When you see me passing
It ought to make you proud.
I say,
It's in the click of my heels,
The bend of my hair,
the palm of my hand,
The need of my care,
'Cause I'm a woman
Phenomenally.
Phenomenal woman,
That's me."--Maya Angelou
The quote above is by Maya Angelou. I have seen her performance of the poem "Phenomenal woman". It was a pleasure seeing how the author wrote the poem and how it was meant to be presented. She was indeed "phenomenal"!!
Maya Angelou has a writing style of "self-discovery". It seems that there are plenty of poems written about love and things, but Angelou just seems to say "I feel this way about myself and the things that I think about, and I bet you do too." She is a wonderful author to get adolescents to start reading.
Book:
The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou
by Maya Angelou
Now if you have read down this far and haven't just skimmed for links to click, then you must be the seriously interested type! Let me mention the fact that I cannot put copyrighted works on this site. I have stepped over the line by putting an excerpt from "Phenomenal Woman" on this page, but I hope Ms. Angelou and her publishers will understand...that you cannot pique the interest without a sample.
Last, but not least, if you are in need of something a bit more masculine, try visiting my husband's site.