Audience Quote by Lionel Shriver

Women do feel like they're in a box. Society, Hollywood, some men-they want to wrap women up in a neat little package

— Sherilyn Fenn

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view…

— Park Bo-young

We often see literature about women that impair and immerse the women themselves, such as when women are portrayed as objects of consumerism.

— Okky Madasari

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women.…

— Mindy Kaling

Think of Virginia Woolf, 'A Room of One's Own' - that's what women have always needed under patriarchy and can't be creative without. They…

— Mary Daly

“Popular Prejudice, having decided that woman is a poor, weak creature, credulous, easily influenced, holds that she is of necessity timid; that if she…

— Ellen C. Clayton

If you've written a powerful book about a woman and your publisher then puts a 'feminine' image on the cover, it 'types' the book.

— Meg Wolitzer

The so-called feminist writers were disgusted with me. I did my thing, and so I guess by feminist standards I'm a feminist. That suits…

— Chrissie Hynde

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of…

— Marjorie M. Liu

I'm not technically brand-friendly to feminists.

— Bert Kreischer

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got…

— Neve McIntosh

“Lots of talk lately about the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL that seems to be exclusively masculine. And how many of the characters in the GENIUS…

— Kate Zambreno