Appropriation Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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

Women's books are kind of discriminated against. If a man writes a book about his family stories, people think of it as literature. If…

— Erica Jong

“As more and more norms disappear from social praxis, literature faces ever-growing difficulties. Its predicament is beginning to resemble that of a child who…

— Stanisław Lem

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it…

— Charles Stross

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought…

— Rachel Cusk

For an author to show that only traditional male power and place matter is to discount and belittle the hard and complex lives of…

— Sarah Zettel

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We must wash literature off ourselves. We want to be men above all, to be human.

— Antonin Artaud

Setting aside the issue of gender while highlighting the symmetry of bodies seemed indispensable in order to focus on the narrative of human beings…

— Alante Kavaite

I am satisfied that if a book is a good one, it is so whatever the sex of the author may be. All novels…

— Anne Bronte

Obviously, everything has always been defined by the dominant ideology. But the dominant ideology has been able to accept women's literature as well as…

— Simone de Beauvoir

Men are thinking, writing, and creating, because women were pouring their energy into those men; women are not creating culture because they are occupied…

— Shulamith Firestone