Braids Quote by Edwidge Danticat

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

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

— Lauren Faust

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

— Molly Ringwald

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that…

— 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

It is this delightful habit of journalizing which largely contributes to form the easy style of writing for which ladies are so generally celebrated.…

— Jane Austen

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

I try to write for women, but I suck at it. I really do.

— Lexi Alexander

Women who write with an overriding consciousness that they write as women are engaged not in aspiration toward writing, but chiefly in a politics…

— Cynthia Ozick

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

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg