Discourse Quote by Alison Assiter

The movement for women's liberation was about an emotional transformation, an explosion, a feeling all over the country that things must be different, and…

— Alix Kates Shulman

“My argument in this book is that embracing the idea of the subject-in-process, far from depoliticizing feminism, breathes new political life into it. It…

— Moya Lloyd

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

Writing a novel about feminism can be a thankless task.

— Michelle Dean

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead…

— Leigh Bardugo

Feminism isn't simply about being a woman in a position of power. It's battling systemic inequities; it's a social justice movement that believes sexism,…

— Jessica Valenti

When I make a film about a woman, it is possible that my feminist politics surfaces somewhere but it is not with the intention…

— Aparna Sen

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as…

— Cynthia Ozick

Feminism is about ultimate, limitless reality.

— Jane Fonda

Any story about a powerful woman owning herself in any way is automatically deemed feminist.

— Madeline Brewer