Female Writers Quotes:

The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

- Chris O'Dowd

topic: Opportunity, Female Writers, Males

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

- Ben Kingsley

topic: Believe, Men, Female Writers

Writers, and particularly female writers, have to fight for the conditions they need to work.

- Doris Lessing

source: "Killing Her Softly" by Joseph O'Neil, www.theatlantic.com. September 2010.

topic: Fighting, Female Writers, Needs

My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.

- Erica Jong

topic: Female Writers, Generations, Fiction, My Generation

What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian energy.

- Shirley Geok-lin Lim

source: "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

topic: Desire, Energy, Female Writers, Invoke

I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.

- Maya Angelou

source: FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Way In Life, Make Me Feel Better

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

- Alice Walker

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Maintaining Peace, Personal Power

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

- Alice Walker

topic: Happiness, Success, Being Happy, Others Happiness, My Own Happiness

The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.

- Ayn Rand

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Empowering Women, Try Again

If I didn't define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people's fantasies for me and eaten alive.

- Audre Lorde

topic: Inspiring, Being Yourself, Diversity, Defining Myself, Female Writers

If you don't like something, change it. If you can't change it, change your attitude.

- Maya Angelou

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Change, Make People Feel Better, Live For Yourself

Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.

- Anne Sexton

topic: Inspirational, Life, Beautiful, Spirit And Soul, Spiritual Soul

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

- Virginia Woolf

topic: Women, Diversity, Poetry, Anon, Signing

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

- Jennifer Aniston

source: Source: www.chicagotribune.com

topic: Wall, Boys, Men, Female Writers

I try really hard to ask people to take a look at their bookshelves. Are there female writers on it? Gay writers? Writers of color? There should be.

- Jodi Picoult

source: Source: nudge-book.com

topic: Gay, Color, People, Female Writers

I had a girls' writing retreat at my condo and a bunch of other female writers came down. Me and two other writers got there before everyone and they pitched this idea to me. At first I wasn't sure what direction it was going in, but then once they kind of explained to me what they were thinking, we wrote it.

- Jamie Lynn Spears

source: "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

topic: Girl, Writing, Thinking, Female Writers

I've had frank conversations with theaters who say, 'We love your play, but we've already done a play by another black person this year,' or 'I don't think the kind of people you write about are the ones our audience wants to see'... Up and coming young black female writers are still struggling to have their voices heard and have their plays produced.

- Katori Hall

topic: Struggle, Love You, Writing, Female Writers

I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female person are greater than those of people who are neither.... So it seems to me that my world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

- Toni Morrison

topic: Thinking, People, Perception, Range Of Emotions, Female Writers

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

- Michael Patrick King

topic: Writing, Years, Way, Female Writers

A third volume of Memoirs is really a bold undertaking ... I cannot, like a certain female writer, say, I hope if I have done nothing to please, I have done nothing to offend; for truly I mean to give both pleasure and offense ...

- Laetitia Pilkington

topic: Mean, Giving, Female, Female Writers

There is a great quote from a female writer. She said, 'If you don't break out in a sweat of fear when you write, you are not writing well enough. I tend to agree. I think my best pictures come when I push myself.

- Sally Mann

topic: Writing, Thinking, Sweat, Best Picture, Female Writers

I think a lot of people compare female writers or female comedians to each other in a way that men are not. Male comedy writers are not scrutinized.

- Mindy Kaling

topic: Men, Thinking, People, Female Comedian, Female Writers

I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are ‘the poor heartbroken girl.’ That’s why I’m so proud of the Fast movies. I feel like Giselle is an empowering woman.

- Gal Gadot

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Girl, Heartbroken, Character, Female Writers