Children Quote by Toni Morrison

Libraries are filled with stories on generations of brutal men, trapped in a cycle of aggression. I wanted to write about the violence of…

— Gillian Flynn

“Many cultural stories worldwide present the domination system as the only human alternative. Fairy tales romanticize the rule of kings and queens over “common…

— Riane Eisler

One of my favorite stories is, I got fired off 'Bionic Woman' in part because I was told that I don't know how to…

— Laeta Kalogridis

What a story is, is devious. It pretends transparency, forthrightness. It engages with ordinary people, ordinary matters, recognizable stuff. But this is all a…

— Joy Williams

These are the kinds of stories I'm really interested in telling: bad stories about bad people, I'm comfortable with.

— Brian Azzarello

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

— Natalie Portman

“Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every…

— Laurie Penny

“This trash rots the female mind! Only a man could possibly write a book where a woman falls in love with her rapist!”

— Shannon Hill

A good story should change the way you see the world.

— Chuck Palahniuk

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

— Lily Koppel

I'll find something in what I read that snags my imagination in emotional terms; it resonates with me for reasons more complicated than just…

— Jim Shepard

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends…

— Margaret Atwood