Being smart Quote by Alice Mattison

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

— Lauren Faust

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

— Nathalie Sarraute

There is a lot of censorship about writing that's exerted from all directions, from families or governments and society, even the fear of being…

— Alice Mattison

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

The worst kind of censorship is the kind that takes place in your own mind before you sit down to a typewriter.

— Paddy Chayefsky

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has…

— Kate Zambreno

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

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

— Amy Clampitt

Paradoxically, the most constructive thing women can do is to write, for in the act of writing we deny our muteness and begin to…

— Dale Spender

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

— Siri Hustvedt

Holding women to the idea of 'write what you know' subtly reinforces the status quo. Writing is a chance to celebrate who we are.…

— Lisa Joy