American woman Quote by Lidia Yuknavitch

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 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

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian

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

— Siri Hustvedt

“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

I hate it when people don't recognize the work of women as being universal, or having any import to the world at large, as…

— Ani DiFranco

“There are more similarities between the writing of men and women than there are differences. Aren't we all just trying to tell stories? How…

— Roxanne Gay

The female experience is different from that of the male, and if, as a male writer, you cannot accept that basic premise, then you…

— Greg Rucka

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam

“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

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

“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