Attention Quote by Jennifer Weiner

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the…

— Molly Ringwald

“Literature is the haven of fluidity, of slippage from one character to another, of movement. Women tend to read far more novels than men…

— Anita Phillips

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

“When a woman reads a romance novel, she is putting her own pleasure first. That small act of rebellion is perceived as a threat…

— Maya Rodale

Anyone who reads advice books about romance has one problem to begin with: bad taste in literature.

— Roger Ebert

Romance is the most read genre of fiction in the world - but people always undermine it.

— Nicola Coughlan

Because I'm a woman writing about women who do bad things, that's somehow very 'other.' When men write that, it's called a novel. It's…

— Gillian Flynn

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels…

— Anne Bronte

I think people underestimate the romance audience. It's everything from career women to high school girls to elderly women. I have male readers, too,…

— Heather Graham Pozzessere

Writers of novels and romance in general bring a double loss to their readers; robbing them of their time and money; representing men, manners,…

— Mary Wortley Montagu