Books Quote by V. S. Naipaul

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man.

— Madame de Stael

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

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

— Molly Ringwald

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

— Amy Clampitt

If the writer is a woman, feminist or not, it will give the language something that it would not have if it had been…

— Simone de Beauvoir

A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't…

— Charlotte Bronte

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

It is by women that nature writes on the hearts of men.

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I am neither a man nor a woman but an author.

— Charlotte Bronte

“There are books written by women. There are books written by men. Somehow, though, it is only books by women, or books about certain…

— Roxane Gay

Very often I hear talk about female literature, or femininity in literature. It's a categorization I am not sure about. Maybe there are a…

— Luljeta Lleshanaku

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

— Hilary Mantel