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“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

“In general…there’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women…

— Anne Lamott

There's no need to be tragic or destroy yourself or jump off a cliff. That's no longer the paradigm I wish to follow, or…

— Mary Harron

I have not much faith in women in fiction.... Women are so horribly subjective and they have such scorn for the healthy commonplace. When…

— Willa Cather

“There’s no point in writing hopeless novels. We all know we’re going to die; what’s important is the kind of men and women we…

— Anne Lamott

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Women writers have been told, forever, that our stories were not valuable. Not as valuable as men's stories about wars, business, power.

— Joyce Maynard

Plot, rules, nor even poetry, are not half so great beauties in tragedy or comedy as a just imitation of nature, of character, of…

— Horace Walpole

I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only…

— Anna Wickham

It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality…

— Alfred Bester

“If I’m unhappy with how female stories are portrayed, then at least I can do something about it. The great thing about being a…

— Elinor Cook

Writers seek to create order out of the chaos of everyday life, and to extract meaning from both the tragic and the mundane

— Hope Edelman