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Doris Lessing
(1919 - 2013)
Nelson Mandela
(1918 - 2013)
Chrétien de Troyes
(c. 1165 - c. 1180)
Peter Kropotkin
(1842 - 1921)
Seneca the Younger
(4 BC - 65)
Laurence Sterne
(1713 - 1768)
Saint Aelred of Rievaulx
(c. 1110 - 1167)
Madame de La Fayette
(c. 1634 - 1693)
Marcus Tullius Cicero
(106 BC - 43 BC)
William Cullen Bryant
(1794 - 1878)
Eliza Haywood
(c. 1693 - 1756)
Margaret Fuller
(1810 - 1850)
Charles Darwin
(1809 - 1882)
Franz Kafka
(1883 - 1924)
Salka Viertel
(1889 - 1978)
Saint Teresa of Ávila
(1515 - 1582)
Saint Augustine
(354 - 430)
Mary McCarthy
(1912 - 1989)
Ivan Turgenev
(1818 - 1883)
Madeleine de Scudéry
(1607 - 1701)
Arthur Conan Doyle
(1859 - 1930)
Lady Sarashina
(c. 1008 - c. 1059)
Virginia Woolf
(1882 - 1941)
Kamala Markandaya
(1924 - 2004)
Aristotle
(384 BC - 322 BC)
William Wycherley
(1641 - 1716)
Karl Pearson
(1857 - 1936)
Yoshida Kenko
(c. 1283 - c. 1351)
Thomas Jefferson
(1743 - 1826)
Alexander Pope
(1688 - 1744)
H.L. Mencken
(1880 - 1956)
Agnes Repplier
(1855 - 1950)
Étienne de La Boétie
(1530 - 1563)
Immanuel Kant
(1724 - 1804)
Vera Brittain
(1893 - 1970)
Robert Graves
(1895 - 1985)
Walt Whitman
(1819 - 1892)
Claude Yvon
(1714 - 1791)
George Sand
(1804 - 1876)
Derek Walcott
(1930 - 2017)
Homer
(c. 800 BC - 725 BC)
William Shakespeare
(1564 - 1616)
Herman Melville
(1819 - 1891)
Larry Kramer
(1935 - 2020)
Samuel Johnson
(1709 - 1784)
Sima Qian
(c. 145 BC - c. 87 BC)
Gustave Flaubert
(1821 - 1880)
Grace Paley
(1922 - 2007)
Sidney Rogerson
(1894 - 1968)
Miguel de Cervantes
(1547 - 1616)
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
(1797 - 1851)
Michel de Montaigne
(1533 - 1592)
Francis Bacon
(1561 - 1626)
Simone de Beauvoir
(1908 - 1986)
Emily Dickinson
(1830 - 1886)
Edward FitzGerald
(1809 - 1883)
Alexis de Tocqueville
(1805 - 1859)
Anne Sexton
(1928 - 1974)
Jane Jacobs
(1916 - 2006)
Gaius Petronius Arbiter
(c. 27 - 66)
Sarah Stickney Ellis
(1799 - 1872)