Quote by Dixie Lee McKeone

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

“I had read them and congratulated myself for being black, as if I had chosen to be, because black women were feminists before there…

— Carleen Brice

“Always refer to those of the female gender as ladies. The descriptive woman is usually reserved in Dixie for females of questionable respect.”

— Ann Barrett Batson

“The point, dear Davis, is that sometimes what you want is nothing more than to put your name beside someone else's, someone whom you…

— Helen Humphreys

“Seeing your own name on the book cover is like hearing your book saying, "Hi. Thanks for writing me!”

— Alvi Syahrin

“Even though I know my own name (barely), I still sometimes write my name wrong. Usually it only happens when I write in cursive…

— Jarod Kintz

“Beware of the man who denounces woman writers; his penis is tiny and he cannot spell.”

— Erica Jong

“All of reading is really only finding ways to name ourselves, and, perhaps, to name the others around us so that they will no…

— Anna Quindlen

“I was a woman and did not yet think of myself as a writer. I was a mapmaker.”

— Shay Youngblood

“Well hello sailor. You are much tastier in reality.” She turned to me. “You’d never make a career as a writer babe, your descriptions…

— Emma L Smith

A friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan…

— John Wesley Harding

“I am a writer, not a transcriber.”

— Ivan Doig