Being a woman Quote by Buchi Emecheta

I did not start out thinking I'm going to become a feminist poet. It was a tag I was given.

— Rupi Kaur

Now I would say I'm absolutely a feminist writer.

— Abi Morgan

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

I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

— Shashi Deshpande

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

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

— Charlotte Bronte

I think it's so important for a woman, if she's a writer, to look as feminine as possible.

— Catherine Gaskin

Unfortunately, I can't fault other writers and directors for how they choose to present themselves, but I just think people are very fearful of…

— Diablo Cody

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

— Samuel Johnson

The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness,…

— Yann Martel

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but…

— Jennifer Saunders