Bed Quote by Dilys Laing

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

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

“woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and”

— Virginia Woolf

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

“Sometimes I think every man wants to be a writer. They want to invent a world with the perfect imaginary woman, someone they can…

— Joe Hill

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the…

— Samuel Johnson

Woman novelists seem to have a reputation for being dowdy.

— Catherine Gaskin

What a revolting contrast exists in England between the slavery of women and the intellectual superiority of women writers.

— Flora Tristan

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 think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the…

— Molly Ringwald

“it strikes me that the writers most deeply concerned with the state of literary fiction and its biases against women could do a lot…

— Foz Meadows

Women are the simple, and poets the superior, artisans of language... the intervention of grammarians is almost always bad.

— Remy de Gourmont