Because Quote by Russell Smith

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their…

— Sherwood Smith

I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been…

— Katee Sackhoff

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in…

— Leigh Bardugo

I started out writing romance novels, and that's a side of publishing that's very female oriented. 99.9% of the writers are women, most of…

— Marjorie M. Liu

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

— Khaled Hosseini

“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

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

— Jewel Staite

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

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

If there were genders to genres, fiction would be unquestionably feminine.

— William H. Gass

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

Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than…

— Bonnie Hammer