Chance Quote by Janet Mock

'Marie Claire' is one of those magazines that doesn't feel as well known as it should be.

— Joanna Coles

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

It was not until Web comics that I saw stories about women and stories by women and things that were aimed specifically at female…

— Noelle Stevenson

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of…

— Marjorie M. Liu

“Women’s stories matter, the stories we write, the stories we read—the big-deal winners of literary prizes, and Harlequin romances, and documentaries, and soap operas,…

— Jennifer Weiner

As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people…

— Marjorie Liu

Many things make the ideal magazine story . But one thing is that it calls attention to the reader to something that they never…

— Ron Rosenbaum

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

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch

“In addition to the romance, this story explores several interesting subjects. Politics, fashion, and questions of personal fulfillment lend the manuscript a complexity that…

— Cara Addison

I'd just begun to be taken seriously as a freelance writer, but after the Playboy article, I mostly got requests to go underground in…

— Gloria Steinem