Women’s writing is full ... with the injustices done by…

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

— Naomi Wolf

Her eyes, though tired, had the glint of one who never stopped expecting to be amused, and her mouth turned up at the corners…

— Kate Morton

“The fact is that you are bringing something valuable to a man's life – your warmth, your caring, your wit, your beauty, your interest,…

— Ali Binazir

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really…

— Marjorie Liu

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

— Rosario Dawson

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

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

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

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

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