Book Quote by Jennifer Weiner

What I find weird is that the term 'chick lit' is used to encompass literally anything a woman writes about relationships. It's the assumption…

— Jane Fallon

I think that there's a lot of guys out there that want to read the equivalent of chick lit, but really there's not being…

— Tucker Max

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

If you write chick lit, and if you're a New Yorker, and if your book becomes the topic of pop-culture fascination, the paper might…

— Jennifer Weiner

Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.

— Marguerite Duras

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

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara

“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

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

Publishers have published women's fiction into a corner, and now we are all trying to punch our way out of it. We just have…

— Lisa Jewell

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam

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