Accurate Quote by Roxane Gay

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

Women are far and away the bigger consumers of fiction than men, but men are still far and away the more reviewed, the more…

— Jennifer Weiner

“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

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

There used to be a category called women's fiction - meaning not too rude, not too much sex, a bit domestic and internal. Women…

— Janet Fitch

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

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Fiction has always been a way of examining society and its flaws and trying to expose them.

— Lisa Joy

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

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

— Siri Hustvedt

“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

To be perfectly frank: I don't write women's fiction. I write intimate, gritty, realistic, character-driven fiction that happens to be thrown into the women's…

— Jillian Medoff