Ability Quote by Julie Burchill

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

— Doris Lessing

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

— Siri Hustvedt

Men don't cry!' 'Women can't handle money!' What limiting ideas to live with.

— Anonymous

Publicity in women is detestable. Anonymity runs in their blood. The desire to be veiled still possesses them. They are not even now as…

— Virginia Woolf

If writers possess a common temperament, it's that they tend to be shy egomaniacs; publicity is the spotlight they suffer for the recognition they…

— Gail Caldwell

“I know women whose entire personas are woven from a benign mediocrity. Their lives are a list of shortcomings: the unappreciative boyfriend, the extra…

— Gillian Flynn

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

I can certainly sympathize with writers who don't want to put themselves or their loved ones at risk.

— Adam Hochschild

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face…

— Ben Kingsley

Just as women supplement men in private life, so they will supplement men in public life by concentrating their organized efforts on those objects…

— Edward Bernays

Men who can, when they wish to write a document, shut themselves up for days with their thoughts and their books, know little of…

— Elizabeth Cady Stanton