Age Quote by Emma Donoghue

The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.

— Agatha Christie

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about…

— Olympia Dukakis

[My book is] a collection of letters and essays about what it takes to be a young woman today. Mostly the taboo things that…

— Lily Collins

I'm drawn to female stories, of which there aren't that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to…

— Marianne Elliott

When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me…

— Natalie Portman

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their…

— Dylan Frances Penn

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

— Parvathy

I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to…

— Jenny Han

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

Somebody asked me earlier if I thought it was really important to tell stories about women's struggles. And I said yes, but at the…

— Diablo Cody

Once I got over the fear of writing female characters, it actually came quite easily and I was really happy with it. I just…

— Eli Roth

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong.

— Dan Chaon