Advantage Quote by Katha Pollitt

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we…

— Erica Jong

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels…

— Anne Bronte

I'm not an especially male novelist, but I think men are better at writing about men, and the same is true for women. Reading…

— Justin Cartwright

There were statistically more women than men on the planet. Why should every major religion have been founded by men and propagated by men?

— Arjuna Ardagh

I do not believe in sex distinction in literature, law, politics, or trade-or that modesty and virtue are more becoming to women than to…

— Anonymous

I think in general, novels by men tend to be taken more seriously than novels by women.

— Curtis Sittenfeld

It's to a writer's advantage to contain within himself elements of each sex, or any sex. It's to his advantage because it makes him…

— Tennessee Williams

“There are two sides to every woman.” It might have been a mummy dispensing elder wisdom. “One is rational, like a man. The other…

— Fritz Leiber

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or…

— Harriet Walter

I think the myths are keeping us limited to, and tied to, what I would call the hyper-masculine tradition. All the major religions in…

— Arjuna Ardagh

No woman or man is any one thing and the men in my stories, well, some of them are good and some of them…

— Roxane Gay

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian