Chronology Quote by Alice Mattison

“People's assumptions tend to default to white and male, especially when the writer is loud and unapologetically critical and sharp around the edges, which…

— Lindy West

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

— Yoko Ono

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

— Sigourney Weaver

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

“Women writers make for rewarding (and efficient) lovers. They are clever liars to fathers and husbands; yet they never hold their tongues too long,…

— Roman Payne

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go…

— Lorrie Moore

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been…

— Simone de Beauvoir

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

I'm the kind of writer who thinks style is just as important as the story being told.

— Hallgrimur Helgason

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

— V. S. Naipaul