Accounts Quote by Carolyn Heilbrun

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

— Parvathy

I think so many women allow themselves to be defined by somebody else's narrative.

— Whitney Wolfe Herd

The idea of women having a complete hold on their lives is still alien in a lot of places. So, it is important that…

— Esme Creed-Miles

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether or not…

— Karyn Kusama

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

Unless we include a job as part of every citizen's right to autonomy and personal fulfillment, women will continue to be vulnerable to someone…

— Gloria Steinem

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only…

— Miranda July

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

— Cheryl Strayed