Aspiration Quote by Cynthia Ozick

There are many women who write as they think they should write - to imitate men and make a place for themselves in literature.

— Marguerite Duras

I guess there are women who write from a very woman-centered place, but I don't consider myself to be one of them.

— Anna Boden

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has…

— Kate Zambreno

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

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

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

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

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

— Lauren Faust

while there are 'women writers' there are not, and have never been, 'men writers.' This is an empty category, a class without specimens; for…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch