Able Quote by Lucy Poate Stebbins

One of the realities for women writers is that sometimes you'll start strong, but as you see people go up the ladder, working in…

— Erin Belieu

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women…

— Michael Patrick King

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women.

— Sigmund Freud

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

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

Woman must write her self: must write about women and bring women to writing, from which they have been driven away as violently as…

— Helene Cixous

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

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

— Terry Goodkind

All women are strong, and we don't need to write stronger female roles; what we need to start writing is real women that have…

— Ella Purnell

It is vital that women who have fought to get to the top, lend a hand to women coming after them - sharing their…

— Penny Mordaunt

“Women create an idealized, hopeful vision for the future to inspire other women. Fiction and fantasy are the crucial first steps to changing the…

— Maya Rodale

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided…

— Catherine O'Hara