Autobiography Quote by Kate Zambreno

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only…

— Miranda July

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

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch

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

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go…

— Lorrie Moore

I think people assume that women write about the domestic sphere. Women write about relationships and family. Men do, too, but then it's the…

— Molly Ringwald