Field Quote by Amanda Foreman

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

— Lorrie Moore

When I started researching history in the 1960s, a lot of women about whom I've subsequently written were actually footnotes to history. There was…

— Alison Weir

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

When I learnt, however, that in 1911 there had been twenty-one regular feminist periodicals in Britain, that there was a feminist book shop, a…

— Dale Spender

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

The notion of women being written out of history is as old as the Bible, but it always seems more galling when it is…

— Emily Thornberry

I write novels about women, except for one: 'Rococo', about a man, a New Jersey decorator. But even that book had a woman on…

— Adriana Trigiani

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian