Bounds Quote by Max Frisch

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

“Our great novelists, though experts on indignity and assault, on loneliness and terror, tend to avoid treating the passionate encounter of a man and…

— Leslie Fiedler

“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

I wonder if novels work for women because they give us a safe place to talk about our ish.

— Jennifer Weiner

Men have desired, and justly, that women should learn from their confessions in regard to the conflict between man and woman. But woman, because…

— Ellen Key

While husbands and lovers in the stories are of all kinds, ranging from sympathetic to disgusting, women are invariably deceivers: inconstant, unscrupulous, quarrelsome, querulous,…

— Barbara Tuchman

Women naturally deceive, weep and spin.

— Proverb

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a…

— Mike White

“There is no deception on the part of the woman, where a man bewilders himself: if he deludes his own wits, I can certainly…

— John Gower

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed…

— Simone de Beauvoir

It's hard to find really original, compelling works of fiction, for women especially. I find that these true life stories about these women that…

— Hilary Swank

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

— Parvathy