Women’s writing is full ... of heartbreak with the…

“Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by beauty—its presence as well as its absence.”

— Naomi Wolf

I think that female musicians are constantly fighting an uphill battle in general. Even when I'm not writing heartbreak songs... the fact that songwriting…

— Marissa Nadler

I've been in two long-term relationships and - this sounds awful - they were really helpful for writing heartbreak. It makes good songs.

— Mabel

It's hard if you're just touring constantly. It's like, "What am I going to write about? I'm in the van, I'm playing another show..."…

— Sharon Van Etten

Extremist perspectives win sympathy and recruits because they offer narratives that claim to identify deep injustices and enemies.

— Jonas Gahr Store

Our Prophet was a radical too- he fought against the injustices of his community and challenged the feudal order of his society, so they…

— Abu Bakar Bashir

Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction for women…

— Jami Attenberg

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as…

— Helene Cixous

I'm not writing about things other women do. I'm writing for other women to have more self-confidence because I need it myself! And if…

— Sheryl Sandberg

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it…

— Rachel Cusk

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine…

— Whitney Cummings

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought…

— Rachel Cusk

I would like to help young women writing comedy, acting, anything like that.

— Rachel Sennott

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction.

— Mary Gordon