The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers. — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
“Does rough weather choose men over women? Does the sun beat on men, leaving women nice and cool?' Nyawira asked rather sharply.… — Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o Copy Share Image
“Advice to my younger self: 1 Start where you are with what you have 2 Try not to hurt other people 3… — Germany Kent Copy Share Image
“I love words as food. It fills up my appetite with parsley, mint, and species. It has a way of keeping my… — Christina Strigas Copy Share Image
Women writers lift themselves up from the depths; as they rise, each brings with her what she is able to carry. — Lucy Poate Stebbins Copy Share Image
Male critics and men in the publishing industry want from their women writers what they want from their wives. I'm interested in… — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't… — Min Jin Lee Copy Share Image
“It galls me that seeking out the seedy, the sordid, the sexual, and the deviant is the expected (if not altogether acceptable)… — John Irving Copy Share Image
But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking. — Wanda Sykes Copy Share Image
“The facts of religion were convincing only to those who were already convinced.” — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
“Fantasy like thought that no man could rain Just let her reign Run wild with her unafraid Of any rain storms They… — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
“I have observed a phenomena about women in this community and is how quick they are able to form opinions and "ideas"… — Crystal Evans Copy Share Image
Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
I think it's significantly easier to be a female writer today than in the early 1800's. That said, it's hard to imagine… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in Sir… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women… — Sarah Weinman Copy Share Image
If you go off into general-interest magazines, often women are being shoved aside into various ghettos that perpetuate the problem. Women's interests… — Erin Belieu Copy Share Image
“From Tudor to eighteenth-century England, there are many instances of women writers with no place or room of their own. The life-story… — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
“I fell asleep with your head on my breast My soul laying gracefully on your stable and loving chest” — Maquita Donyel Irvin Copy Share Image
In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
“Thrall is a feast of both visceral and existential horror – the gut tightens and the mind reels. Mary Sangiovanni joins that… — F. Paul Wilson Copy Share Image
“The French fairy tale writers were so popular and prolific that when their stories were eventually collected in the 18th century, they… — Terri Windling Copy Share Image
“Now, I can tell you about some women writers who truly are fantastic. One is Anna Kavan. She writes stories like I… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
