Constant Quote by Karin Tidbeck

As a writer, as a storyteller, you have to have your emotions close, and the older I've gotten, the less I've worried about not…

— John Ridley

Each of us has something to do in this lifetime. We all have negative emotions to be purified and positive emotions to be cultivated.…

— Tenzin Palmo

The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.

— Siri Hustvedt

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

It's hard to generalize about that subject because the women I've worked with have all been so different. But if there's one consistency, it…

— Kristen Stewart

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions…

— Sara Shepard

Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about…

— Olympia Dukakis

Unless you're very boring, I think most people who've lived long enough have something in their past which will never go away. As a…

— John Boyne

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the…

— Nawal El Saadawi

I think all those years that I spent as a nurse, from the age of seventeen, just allowed me an insight into human emotion…

— Christie Watson

“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

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

— Dennis Prager