Gender stereotypes Quote by Jane Austen

“Every body at all addicted to letter writing, without having much to say, which will include a large proportion of the female world at…

— Jane Austen

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

— Anton Chekhov

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are." --Nora Ephron”

— Nora Ephron

“She was one of those writers, far from rare in the world of letters, who suppose that push and pull are an adequate substitute…

— W. Somerset Maugham

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as…

— Donald Margulies

“Girls is a fine example of someone writing what she knows and the painful limitations of doing so.”

— Roxane Gay

“Writing was born as the maidservant of human consciousness, but is increasingly becoming its master.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The female body is like an endless sentence that invites us to rearrange it, so that its real meaning becomes clear through a series…

— Hans Bellmer

“It does seem, in other words, not only more difficult for a woman experimental writer to be accepted than for a woman writer (which…

— Christine Brooke-Rose

“Writing is like knowing the beauty you possess inward; the possibilities are endless.”

— Annette Whitaker-Moss

“I’m a woman intent on reinventing herself at an age where wiser, saner women are slowing down. The captivating magic of words has infiltrated…

— Daisy Dexter Dobbs