Child care Quote by Sarah Weinman

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women.

— Brit Marling

“I think it no accident that the myth of the isolated achievement so often promotes women writers' less good work as their best work.”

— Joanna Russ

I think my becoming a writer had much to do with spending a chunk of each year sitting by myself out in a tent…

— Robert Sapolsky

“Being a writer is something I love to do, plus I get independence. It’s a great job for a woman because she can work…

— Anne Mather

There are a lot of wonderful women writers who would be good influences on writers. You've got to spread yourself out and educate yourself…

— Ray Bradbury

“Everything We Keep wouldn’t be the story it is today without my first readers—Elizabeth Allen, Bonnie Dodge, Vicky Gresham, Addison James, and Orly Konig-Lopez—who…

— Kerry Lonsdale

“I tried to lose myself in books. Our house is packed with them, and we keep adding more. Like my mother, I love mystery…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

Long before I started to write in earnest, Lorrie Moore taught me you could have a woman narrator who was funny and complex and…

— Miranda July

Writers know that sometimes things are there in the drawer for decades before they finally come out and you are capable of writing about…

— Gunter Grass

I learned the enormous power of writing for yourself, especially now that people seem to be receptive to the fact that women can write.

— Maya Rudolph

I didn't intend to be writing - the writer's life. I was just writing what came to me at the time, but it is…

— Sandra Cisneros

I really enjoyed the process of 'Women in Clothes,' but there's no way I would have done that again. It felt more like being…

— Sheila Heti