Freedom Quote by Joyce Carol Oates

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women.

— Lauren Faust

I believe writers need to be chameleons, or like Meryl Streep, who can play all sorts of characters. A good writer should be able…

— Marisha Pessl

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to…

— Anthony Minghella

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead…

— Leigh Bardugo

In any good piece of writing, it should be easy enough to switch genders.

— Ruth Bradley

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

— Samuel Johnson

I don't care whether they're men or women, that's bullshit. A good writer can get into any gender, can get into any mouth. When…

— Patti Smith

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but…

— Jennifer Saunders

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that…

— Sherwood Smith

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald