Century Quote by Joan M. Drury

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality…

— Alfred Bester

One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in…

— Erin Belieu

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

“But the period I studied -- the rollicking eighteenth century engraved by Hogarth -- was the one that saw the birth of America, of…

— Erica Jong

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

— Doris Lessing

In my long, long years toiling around the publishing industry, I've found that women simply don't stick to the writing with the same fervor…

— Jim Goad

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

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

— Anton Chekhov

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

I've noticed over the past years of my writerly life that women writers in particular are discouraged in cleverly disguised forms from including the…

— Lidia Yuknavitch