80s Quote by Karin Slaughter

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

— Megan Abbott

I think there's a concept that crime fiction is or was male-dominated, but it really never has been.

— Megan Abbott

So much of contemporary crime fiction is painful to read and obsessed with violence, particularly against women, and I can't read that.

— Donna Leon

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

Women need to become literary criminals, break the literary laws and reinvent their own, because the established laws prevent women from presenting the reality…

— Kathy Acker

“A woman from the audience asks: ‘Why were there so few women among the Beat writers?’ and [Gregory] Corso, suddenly utterly serious, leans forward…

— Stephen Scobie

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying…

— Kate Braverman

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

— Phyllis Rose

I think women believed for a long time that it was inappropriate for them to be interested in true crime. It made them judge…

— Karen Kilgariff

Women were victims. Their husbands could beat them up when they wanted to. They couldn't work. They could be maimed and killed by their…

— Pam Grier

I have not much faith in women in fiction… Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather