Body Quote by Helene Cixous

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

We write out of our humanity by writing through our direct experience. That which is most personal is most general, which becomes both our…

— Terry Tempest Williams

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

— Simone de Beauvoir

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

I absolutely think that women told that writing about themselves is somehow not worthy enough for a public audience all the time. I hear…

— Melissa Febos

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.

— Anton Chekhov

I think each writer has to seek her most energetic prose style. She has to find a way to write so that nobody can…

— George Saunders

“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." -Benjamin Franklin I'm writing to free myself and free women from this prison. My…

— Huda Sharawi

“woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction; and”

— Virginia Woolf

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

My rage and sense of alienation as to how women have been written, have allowed themselves to be written, in so many ways, has…

— Kate Zambreno

“It is my opinion that every woman can be a writer.”

— Anton Chekhov