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Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized. — Cheryl Strayed

I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories. — Kelly Sue DeConnick

Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories — Eileen Granfors

What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser

You can't tell the story of the women's movement through the story of one woman. — Dyllan McGee

He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions! — Darnaya Darice

My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old. — Jeffrey Zeldman

[When asked about Writing Conferences]
You meet people that will change your life. — Susan Wingate

Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life. — Elizabeth Fox-Genovese

Female curiosity. Women like to know the stories of their friends' lives. Women like to understand — Holly Chamberlin

We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice. — Shami Chakrabarti

I think women love to read love stories. — E.L. James

Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours. — Shannon L. Alder

I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example. — Lynsey Addario

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. — Dylan Penn

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by — Rosario Dawson

The women in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books said they were anomalies — Kameron Hurley

Intuition is truth. — A.D. Posey

Women inspire me ... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women. — Diane Von Furstenberg

Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word? — Bob Uecker

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented. — Scott Rudin

There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color. — Kerry Washington

Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it. — Kristin Hannah

(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl. — Doris Kearns Goodwin

I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women. — Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative. — Romola Garai

Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard. — Uma Thurman

I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams. — Rita Ora

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true. — Jill Abramson

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men. — F Scott Fitzgerald

War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided. — Charlotte Lamb

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women. — Romola Garai

I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video. — Catherine Deneuve

The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell. — Katey Sagal

She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights) — Jim Fusilli

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women. — Colm Toibin

She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job. — Richard Finney

The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance . — Mike Madrid

When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going. — Elizabeth Lesser

Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices. — Sarah Kay

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

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining. — Megan Griffiths

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations. — Anne Bancroft

I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive. — Lynn Nottage

Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories. — Alice Hoffman

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.' — Jen Kirkman

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice. — Heather Graham

I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. — Edna O'Brien

I am interested in stories that concern women. — Jocelyn Moorhouse

I like stories where women save themselves. — Neil Gaiman

Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful. — Brownell Landrum

Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out. — Jenna McCarthy

Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing out. — Lidia Yuknavitch

Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same. — Roy L. Pickering Jr.

I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women. — Sue Monk Kidd

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance. — Kate Williams

I love stories about women. — Clint Eastwood

I'm interested in things women do that aren't spoken about. Manto's stories let me breathe. They make me feel like less of a monster. — Mohsin Hamid

The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that. — Carrie Coon

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer. — Jerry N. Uelsmann

Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead. — Ian McEwan

Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made. — Bonnie Bedelia

Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world. — Zainab Salbi

No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us. — V.S. Kemanis

Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world. — John Darnielle

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women. — Geoffrey S. Fletcher

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

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling. — Zainab Salbi

historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights. — Nora Roberts

She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights. — Chad Harbach

You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men. — Neil Gaiman

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women. — Lisa Scottoline

This world is bursting with silenced women and girls who have stories that need to be screamed, or whispered, or sang. — Rachel Kann

When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other. — Eve Ensler

see the stories of women, but they are always stuck inside the stories of men. Why is that? — Lidia Yuknavitch

Stories not only give us a much needed practice on figuring out what makes people tick, they give us insight into how we tick. — Lisa Cron

A bit ridiculous, but true. The moral of this story is to separate men and women when analyzing number of sexual organs. — Des MacHale