"2014 shouldn’t be the “Year of Reading Women” because every year should be that. But last year showed us that the literary establishment is presenting us with a very skewed view of human experience, critical opinion and artistic achievement. And whether you’re building your own personal canon with a list of “Women Writers” you can bring into a male-dominated conversation, or you’re vowing to read only women authors for a while, you contribute to altering an outdated landscape that should have changed long ago."