Areas Quote by Edna Longley

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

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

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries.

— Joan M. Drury

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

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality…

— Alfred Bester

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

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

— Erica Jong

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

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

“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels than men…

— Anita Phillips