Battle Quote by Cheryl Strayed

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

“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

“So often we're told that women's stories are unimportant. After all, what does it matter what happens in the main room, in the kitchen,…

— Lisa See

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

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got…

— Neve McIntosh

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just…

— Helen Oyeyemi

As much as it's really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have…

— Jessica Barden

“That is the corrosive paradox of gender feminism's misandrist stance: no group of women can wage war on men without at the same time…

— Christina Hoff Sommers

“The biggest reason I shoes away from embracing the narrative [of being a woman for women] is that Storytelling requires a receptive audience, and…

— Hillary Clinton

on the whole the American theater, dominated by men, does not perceive women fighting for their lives as a central issue.

— Marsha Norman

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

— Joyce Maynard

“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