Greater Quote by Madame de Stael

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

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought…

— Rachel Cusk

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

There is still the feeling that women's writing is a lesser class of writing, that what goes on in the nursery or the bedroom…

— Erica Jong

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

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.

— V. S. Naipaul

Women are not as sentimental as men, and are not so easily touched with the unspoken poetry of nature, being less poetical, and having…

— Charles Dudley Warner

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality…

— Alfred Bester

“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

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Theories by women about women have only recently begun to appear in print. Theories by men about women are abundant.

— Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks