Feminist Writer Quotes

#1. There's a feminist writer, Naomi Wolfe, who is reconsidering her position on abortion.

Norma McCorvey

#2. I don't like to call myself a feminist writer. I say I'm a feminist, but I don't write to propagate an ism,

Shashi Deshpande

#3. Any adjective you put before the noun 'writer' is going to be limiting in some way. Whether it's feminist writer, Jewish writer, Russian writer, or whatever.

Alice McDermott

#4. Being a woman writer, I would be deceiving myself if I said I write completely through the eye of a man. There's nothing bad in it, but that does not make me a feminist writer. I hate that name. The tag is from the Western world - like we are called the Third World.

Buchi Emecheta

#5. Plath was a feminist, in a broad sense of the term: she never undervalued herself or her work. She insisted that she be recognized as the talented writer she was even while her children were infants and she was spending more time as a mother and a wife than as a writer.

Linda Wagner-Martin

#6. I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict ... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.

Nora Ephron

#7. I predict you will sink step by step into a bottomless quagmire, however much you spend in men and money. (On Vietnam War)

Charles De Gaulle

#8. The gentlemanly Number 23 would have never made such a crude statement to a lady. But I was not a lady. Sure, I was intelligent and strong, but I dared to be wide open. I was Maggie Young, chaser of boys, writer of scandal, dropper of f-bombs, tits on a stick.

Maggie Young

#9. O death where is thy sting? The man is never on time ...

William S. Burroughs

#10. yet men die miserably every day

Alain De Botton

#11. No, no," Leo said. "Rainbows. Very macho.

Rick Riordan

#12. Your true passion in life is what you'd be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

Maggie Young

#13. I have confidence in my campaign. I have assembled a great team that is going to beat George W. Bush, and any rumors to the contrary are completely erroneous.

John F. Kerry

#14. No matter how great the talent or efforts, some things just take time. You can't produce a baby in one month by getting nine women pregnant.

Warren Buffett

#15. I'm a fiction writer, and I do write essays, but I am not a poet. And I absolutely reject the phrase 'woman writer' as anti-feminist. I wrote an essay about this as far back as 1977, at the height of the neo-feminist movement.

Cynthia Ozick

#16. I was challenged to a fistfight by Margo Jefferson, the Pulitzer Prize winner, New York Times writer, who is part of a feminist clique at the Times, which believes that Black men are the principal threat to the women of the world.

Ishmael Reed

#17. Using pseudonyms was such a part of the early feminist movement. We didn't want to have this star system. We wanted attention on the ideas, not the persona of the writer.

Bell Hooks