Ability Quote by Luljeta Lleshanaku

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying…

— Cassandra Clare

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters of my…

— Isabel Allende

On the whole, most biographies about literary women tend to diagnose them.

— Kate Zambreno

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

A female writer does definitely get more attention if she writes about male characters. It's true. It's considered somehow more literary, in the same…

— Lauren Groff

If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go…

— Lorrie Moore

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

“My dis-interest in what people speak of as "women's problems," "women's literature." Have women a special sensibility? No. There are individuals uniquely talented &…

— Anonymous

“Narratives about certain experiences are somehow legitimized when mediated through a man’s perspective. Consider the work of John Updike or Richard Yates. Most of…

— Roxane Gay

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

“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