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She writes things with her movements that I for the life of me could never write with a pen. — Christopher Poindexter

I'm thrilled to be in sci-fi because they write the women very strong, and you don't often get that on television. — Laura Vandervoort

People have been writing premature obituaries on the women's movement since its beginning. — Ellen Goodman

So writing became a way to get to act in things that I thought were meaningful, and hopefully write stronger roles for other women. — Brit Marling

I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women. — Billy Joel

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper. — Terry Tempest Williams

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing. — Nathalie Sarraute

Bad writing's like bad women: there's just not much you can do about it — Charles Bukowski

The difficulty of writing about sex, for women, is that sex is best when not thought about, not analysed. — Doris Lessing

It was actually a women's writing group I belonged to in graduate school that gave me the courage to move from poetry to fiction. — Mary Gordon

Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. — Amy Dickinson

Before there were books, we read each other. — Lisa Cron

I love writing about black women, but if you go beyond that, we're human beings - and because we're human beings, it's universal for everybody. — Mara Brock Akil

I'm the old-school, letter-writing romantic. I know it's out of style, and not a lot of women go for that these days, but that's what I go for. — Andre Holland

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

A world that does not love, respect and protect its Women is doomed to perish! Because Women are Mother Earth! — Avijeet Das

I think that literature quite often emerges from areas where there has been a lack of articulation, like women's writing. — Edna Longley

Women want love to be a novel. Men, a short story. — Daphne Du Maurier

No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks

If I ask you to think about something, you can decide not to. But if I make you feel something? Now I have your attention. — Lisa Cron

No black woman writer in this culture can write "too much". Indeed, no woman writer can write "too much" ... No woman has ever written enough. — Bell Hooks

Never be someone's filler chapter. — Jaycee Ford

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's movement was coming, but I didn't know it in 1956-1957, when I began to write. — Grace Paley

I started writing because I got so frustrated that there weren't enough plays that had roles for young black women in them. — Katori Hall

Writing about women's sexuality is very scary for me because I'm always afraid I'll get it wrong. — Dan Chaon

Women's liberation by women who are already liberated through channels that would mess them up further — Nikhil Sharda

Yes the sex scenes are explicit but we all love the dirty bits! — Airam

The dilemma for women - writing after everything else was finished - has prevented women from reaching their literary potential for centuries. — Joan M. Drury

Even monarchs have need of authors, and fear their pens more than ugly women the painter's pencil. — Baltasar Gracian

Having spent a lot of time trying to figure out screenwriting, I do feel moved and I want to try to write good roles for women of every age. — Brit Marling

Think you can't write women? Don't. Write people and make them women. — Lauren Faust

When a guy writes a scene where a woman does a deviant sex act on camera, it's objectifying. But when a woman writes it, it's feminism. — Whitney Cummings

In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's. — Harriet Beecher Stowe

It is not a bad idea to get in the habit of writing down one's thoughts. It saves one having to bother anyone else with them. — Isabel Colegate

There's the same percentage of genius happening in both genders, but there's less women writing scripts and out there looking for the job. — Dan Harmon

What compromises women - babies, domesticity, mediocrity - compromises writing even more. — Rachel Cusk

What women say to lovers, you'll agree, One writes on running water or on air. — Catullus

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl. — Jay Baruchel

The existence of the writer is to write, and to write is to tell the truth. — Azar Nafisi

Intuition is truth. — A.D. Posey

I write novels about ordinary women who face seemingly insurmountable odds but through courage and determination find their heart's desire. — Francis Ray

I love funny women. I love writing funny women characters. — Michael Patrick King

Anyone who has no need of anybody but himself is either a beast or a God.
Aristotle — Bruce Wayne Sullivan

Reading is sexy. Women who read are suspect. Women who write dangerous. — Chloe Thurlow

A woman who writes commits two sins; she increases the number of books, and decreases the number of women. — Alphonse Karr

Martin: Yes, I'd like to go home and do some work. I'm writing a novel about women from the women's point of view. — Caryl Churchill

Like other women writers of my class, I am expected to tame my talent to suit the comfort of my family. — Kamala Suraiyya Das

Women do not always have to write about women, or gay men about gay men. Indeed, something good and new might happen if they did not. — Kathryn Hughes

Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky

The greater part of what women write about women is mere sycophancy to man. — Madame De Stael

The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do. — William Zinsser

When you reduce a woman to writing, she makes you think of a thousand other women — Gustave Flaubert

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have. — Mitch Glazer

"War gives men a plain-and-simple something to do ... Women write diaries in the hope that their words will beckon fate." It's a romantic manifesto. — James Ellroy

Publishers often push women in a subtle way to focus on fantasy and paranormal writing. — Annalee Newitz

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us. — Viola Davis

Fear will do one thing and one thing only: hold you back — Kya Aliana

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

Women are a poem of tousled tresses. — Gwen Calvo

If you have no money, men won't care for you, women won't love you; won't, that is, care for you or love you the last little bit that matters. — George Orwell

If a writer starts worring about what he or she has left out or forgotten, they might not be able to write even a single line. — Baby Halder

Writers write for fame, wealth, power and the love of women. — Sigmund Freud

Then he stretched himself alongside her to smoke a cigarette with all the ceremony of an opium dreamer. — Anais Nin

As the faculty of writing has chiefly been a masculine endowment, the reproach of making the world miserable has always been thrown upon the women. — Samuel Johnson

Women can spin very well, but they cannot write a good book of cookery. — Samuel Johnson

Women who read are dangerous. Women who write are to be avoided. — Chloe Thurlow

Many women arrange their lives around the people they love. Unfortunately, that arrangement takes up most of our days. — Holly Robinson

Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing. — Leigh Ann Henion

Are you keeping up your good studies at school and working as hard as you always did? — Diane Samuels

I think that's what turns young men and women into writers - the happiness you discover living in books. — Paul Auster

There's two kinds of women
those you write poems about and those you don't. — Jeffrey McDaniel

Women's fiction doesn't sound like anything but a slur to my ears. — Sheila Heti

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

We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about. — Catherynne M Valente

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

Everywhere the poems open. — Mary Kinzie

People will sometimes say, "Why don't you write more politics?" And I have to explain to them that writing the lives of women IS politics. — Grace Paley

Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers. — Anton Chekhov

If you think they didn't go crazy
in tiny rooms just like you're doing now without women without food without hope then you're not ready. — Charles Bukowski

I like writing flawed women, and being one, it's something I feel I can write with some veracity and authority. — Callie Khouri

If all shy, soulful young women who dreamed of becoming writers for a living actually could do that, imagine the library we would have. — Sarah Elwell

I don't think I'm interested in writing women's novels anymore. — Carolyn See

Now, what sort of person would write a scene where a young man stumbles upon a castle full only of beautiful young women? Answer: ME! — Michael Palin

I bet there are a lot of women out there who want to sleep with a guy who reads. And being the head of the reading foundation, I'm very well endowed. — Bauvard

Obviously I find women more interesting than men to write about. — Marge Piercy