Complex Quote by Lucy Dacus

When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism,…

— Junot Diaz

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

— Ken Liu

The archetype of male hero is so boring. And the pretty, boobed woman is so... boring.

— Jessie Buckley

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

“Modern women are frustrated and angry, their experience is limited; modern men are obsessed with the letter “I”; their writing is full of self-conscious…

— Virginia Woolf

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

— Iliza Shlesinger

I verily believe that a man's way with women is in inverse ratio to his prowess among men. The weakling and the saphead have…

— Edgar Rice Burroughs

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

“All a woman ever needs know about men is that they are creatures of their codpieces. Appeal to their chausses and you will have…

— Kinley MacGregor

“Every woman occasionally wonders what manner of man she has married. No matter how long she has been living with her husband, once in…

— Louise Dickinson Rich

“fundamentalists asked that a male answer questions directed to her, on the grounds that a woman’s voice is too alluring to be heard in…

— Geraldine Brooks

When men write women, they tend to write women the way they want women to be, or the way they resent women for being.…

— Simon Pegg