End Quote by Sarah Weinman

I am a woman, and sometimes that impacts what stories I want to do.

— Rachel Maddow

I've come to believe that what draws women to true crime tales is an instinctual understanding that this is the world they live in.

— Megan Abbott

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

— Vestal McIntyre

I grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

I tend to gravitate toward gender- and race-related stories.

— Brooke Baldwin

I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.

— Ryan Murphy

“Like a trail through a forest which becomes more and more faint and finally seems to diminish to a nothing, traditional psychologiical theory too…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estés

But nearly every woman I know has a roughly similar story - in fact, dozens of them: stories about being obsessed with a celebrity,…

— Caitlin Moran

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I…

— Kristen Bell

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

This is what shame does to women: It isolates us and makes us feel our stories aren't really stories at all but idiosyncratic flaws.

— Kim Brooks

I like stories with lots of psychology.

— Alfred Hitchcock