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What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by…

— Laurie Foos

I think male authors who want to try to tackle these issues of representation of women can generally do a better job if they…

— Ken Liu

I don't think there is a need of the categorization 'woman writing'. I think in some sense writers lost their gender when they walk…

— Anita Nair

Sexism kind of predisposes us to see men's work as more important than women's, and it is a problem, I guess, as writers, we…

— Erica Jong

There are jobs that can be done equally well by men or by women and that finally you can't see a difference. But from…

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Nothing indicts female allegiance to patriarchy more than the willingness to behave as though the problems created by cultural investment in sexist thinking about…

— Bell Hooks

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as…

— Gao Xingjian

We need to encourage more women to write roles for other women. The great substantive roles aren't being written for women and aren't being…

— Trudie Styler

“I'm going to go out on a limb here. I've thought a lot about this one, as a feminist, and as an author. How…

— Sarah Zettel

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

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

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub