Able Quote by Cynthia Daignault

My writer and I sat down and wrote a huge list of names of women to consider. It was really important to us to…

— Anita Sarkeesian

It is fascinating to me that when the lists of the great writers are trotted out year after year, you often find lists without…

— Siri Hustvedt

When I used Claudia [Cardinale] for example, in Once Upon a Time in the West, she represented the birth of American matriarchy. Because women…

— Sergio Leone

“The book presents a broad world of women coming from all eras, countries, backgrounds, races, and ethnicities. They’re rabble-rousers from all sorts of disciplines:…

— Ann Shen

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that…

— Sherwood Smith

In the last fifteen years or so, the women's novel has turnedinto the Amtrak of American literature; crashing through the gates at Aristotle, jumpingthe…

— Anonymous

We tend to kind of write women out of history.

— Florence Pugh

I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to…

— Anita Sarkeesian

It has been said that on screen I personified the American woman.

— Joan Crawford

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

Women have their uses for historians.

— Ronald Syme

There may be fewer women historians writing on traditionally 'male' subjects, but they are outstanding in the field - like Margaret MacMillan.

— Amanda Foreman