Quotes About Female Authors

#1. I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

Curtis Sittenfeld

#2. Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who raised my awareness of what female authors were bringing to the table of contemporary fiction.

Emma McLaughlin

#3. Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into 'women's books' except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

Sherwood Smith

#4. THE HONEYEATER story was mesmerizing: the story took hold of me and I felt compelled to write it. I was also inspired by a few female authors (among them, Doris Lessing and Isabel Allende) I've admired over the years
women who preceded me and who gave me the courage to even begin.

Yolanda A. Reid

#5. It infuriates me that the work of white American writers can be universal and lay claim to classic texts, while black and female authors are ghetto-ized as 'other.'

Jesmyn Ward

#6. Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Lee Child

#7. The more is given the less the people will work for themselves, and the less they work the more their poverty will increase.

Leo Tolstoy

#8. There is no doubt about precisely when folks began racing each other in automobiles. It was the day they built the second automobile.

Richard Petty

#9. Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

Leslie Fiedler

#10. No one on earth has lived through the exact same experiences you have, and no one thinks the exact same thoughts you do.

Steve Pavlina

#11. For someone who wrote a novel with a superhero named "Dark Lightning," you wouldn't think a thunderstorm would make me so nervous.

J.M. Richards

#12. She made up prayers and said them,
Worshipping unknown gods with unknown singing,
Her customary magic, which would cover
The white moon's face and darken the sun with cloud.

Ovid

#13. You can't exploit a woman who has based her entire career on exploiting herself.

Maggie Young

#14. Men don't fight for what is theirs. They work for it and they love it with all their hearts. When they do that, they want for nothing.

Rebecca Steinbeck

#15. Have you ever felt in your inmost being, the conscience of others?' again she was trembling, the words were not releasing her. 'It's intolerable you know

Simone De Beauvoir

#16. Affairs began, drama spread, and traditional, good-old-boy camaraderie was tainted by the temptresses who represented the inconvenience of feminism.

Maggie Young

#17. I prefer people to consider me by who I am and what I do and not by how I look!

Gayathri Jayakumar

#18. Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

Robert Anderson

#19. Education for women is something that has plagued the world for a very long time. When I saw this problem firsthand, I knew I had to write about it.

Sahndra Fon Dufe

#20. My position at the Palace is our one opportunity. Have confidence in my destiny. Do not weep.

Shan Sa

#21. Ask a guy who his favourite authors are. If he doesn't list a single female among them, something up.

Stephanie Davies

#22. Ah, so that must have been her mystery: she had discovered a trail into the forest. Surely that was where she went during her absences. Returning with her eyes filled with gentleness & ignorance, eyes made whole. An ignorance so vast that inside it all the world's wisdom could be contained & lost.

Clarice Lispector

#23. Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

Scarlett Thomas