Aim Quote by Barbara Kruger

“The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away…

— Karen Essex

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

— Sarah Waters

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

— Ken Liu

Elevating female voices is important to me, but I'm absolutely not opposed to bringing the men in.

— Alex Cooper

I never feel like I am "using" a voice, rather I am listening to a voice and recording it as faithfully as it comes…

— Micheline Aharonian Marcom

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

“When we talk about my gender as though it were a performance, we let the audience - with all their expectations, prejudices, and presumptions…

— Kate Bornstein

In assembling this group of portraits of women, I'm aware that I'm treading on dangerous ground. When I was in college, I learned to…

— Alec Soth

I don't really think of my narrator in terms of gender. I think of them much more in basic emotional terms. As an author,…

— Steve Almond

“The dilemma for women who love to write may not have so much to do with finding the elusive literary voice, as with being…

— Nava Atlas

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

— Sriram Raghavan

“Other classical writers insisted that the tone and timbre of women’s speech always threatened to subvert not just the voice of the male orator…

— Mary Beard