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“She could just pack up and leave, but she does not visualize what's beyond ahead.” — Núria Añó Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who denounces women writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell. — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“What is it about us lady authors and our fascination for the exclamation mark?” — E.A. Bucchianeri 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
“Literature is impoverished beyond our counting by the doors that have been shut upon women” — Virginia Woolf 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
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
What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers. — Flora Tristan Copy Share Image
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“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff… — Ellen DeGeneres 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
Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
“Intellectual freedom depends upon material things. (...) Women have had less intellectual freedom than the sons of Athenian slaves. Women, then, have… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Newsweek never hired women as writers and only one or two female staffers were promoted to that rank no matter how talented… — Lynn Povich Copy Share Image
“Favoring 'resolution' the way we do, it is hard for us men to write great love stories. Why?, because we want to… — Roman Payne 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
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I know there is gender imbalance in the spec fic field, and it concerns me very much. We live in a gender-biased… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
“I’m not interested in teaching books by women... Usually at the beginning of the semester a hand shoots up and someone asks… — David Gilmour 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
“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as… — Nava Atlas Copy Share Image
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“But really it says everything that’s wrong about the publishing industry, that a quarter of a million people bought and read a… — Sarra Manning 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
“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
“A man once asked me ... how I managed in my books to write such natural conversation between men when they were… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Already the people murmur that I am your enemy because they say that in verse I give the world your me. They… — Julia de Burgos Jack Agüero Translator Copy Share Image
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