Says Quote by Emily Hampshire

People thought I wrote in a very 'masculine' way.

— Ory Okolloh

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

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or emoting is…

— Jenna Ortega

Someone asked me the other day, "Oh your story is like Cameron Crowe's, he has the same thing of having been a teenage journalist,"…

— Emma Forrest

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?

— Abbi Jacobson

When people say, "Oh, she plays like a dude," it's usually dudes who are the ones saying it. They're saying, "Oh, she's as good…

— Esperanza Spalding

Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

— Zadie Smith

What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption…

— Jane Fallon

I think all of my male characters, I suppose, in all of my films, they're not necessarily the traditional version of masculinity.

— Andrew Haigh

It gets too easy to write from the point of view of a male character of my age, with the same cultural frame of…

— Steven Heighton

“Has any non-dipshit man ever used the word "ladies" not followed by the word "room"?”

— Penn Jillette