A woman who writes feels too much.

“It was not uncommon to walk in the door of their home and find my mother sitting on the sofa reading over a manuscript…

— Augusten Burroughs

Every woman who writes is a survivor.

— Tillie Olsen

Montaigne simply turns his mind loose and writes whatever he feels like writing. Mostly, he wants to say that reason is not a special,…

— Lewis Thomas

If a woman writes about a domestic situation, everyone automatically assumes that it's about her.

— Yoko Ono

You don't really know a woman until she writes you a letter.

— Ada Leverson

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women.

— Alphonse Karr

Every word a woman writes changes the story of the world, revises the official version.

— Carolyn See

When a woman writes you a poem, she spends time with the gods on your behalf.

— Aja Monet

“Don’t fall in love with a woman who reads, a woman who feels too much, a woman who writes... From a woman like that,…

— Martha Rivera-Garrido

“I was a little resentful that when a woman writes, her personal story becomes part of the story, even though the novel is fiction.”

— Roxane Gay

A woman who writes has power, and a woman with power is feared.

— Gloria E. Anzaldúa

There's nothing more powerful than a woman who knows how to contain her power and not let it leak, standing firmly within it in…

— Marianne Williamson

He writes nothing whose writings are not read.

— Martial

“A writer lives, at least, in a state of astonishment. Beneath any feeling he has of the good or evil of the world lies…

— William Sansom

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

— Stephen Adly Guirgis