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Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.
Janet Fitch / Author
Outsiders
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The problems faced by writers of color are analogous to the problems face by women writers.
Ken Liu / Fiction Writer
Women
Color
Face
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Problems
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I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.
Elfriede Jelinek / Playwright
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But sometimes the women writers will pitch something and I'll hear it, but the men will keep talking.
Wanda Sykes / Comedian
Men
Comedy
Talking
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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 / Author
Forever
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We have people say, 'There's not enough women writers.' I have a writers room that is almost nothing but women over at 'Grey's Anatomy.'
Shonda Rhimes / Screenwriter
Anatomy
Grey
Grey's Anatomy
Women Enough People
Almost Nothing
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I think it's a question which particularly arises over women writers: whether it's better to have a happy life or a good supply of tragic plots.
Wendy Cope / Poet
Happy Life
Plot
Thinking
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Life Good Women
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Plots
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We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'
G. Willow Wilson / Writer
Ghetto
Literary
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In 2011, I contributed an essay to Tin House, 'The Dark Side of Dinner Dishes, Laundry, and Child Care,' talking about women writers I felt had fallen off the map.
Sarah Weinman /
Child Care
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Women writers are often conflated with their narrators - as if we can't consciously construct fictional worlds from the ground up and can only write diary entries.
Miranda July / Film Director
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Diary
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What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material, and I truly admire that.
Kathleen Turner / Film Actress
Older Women
Material
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Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.
Peter Straub / Author
Men
Character
Doubt
No Doubt
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The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and exciting stuff in science fiction. I was inspired by that.
Lisa Tuttle /
Science
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When I was in graduate school, I had a teacher who said to me, 'Women writers should marry somebody who thinks writing is cute. Because if they really realised what writing was, they would run a mile.'
Lorrie Moore / Writer
Cute
Teacher
Graduate School
Realised
Writers
Marry
Graduate
Mile
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The forward march of American literature is usually chronicled by way of its male novelists. There is little sense, in that version of the story, that women writers of those eras were doing much worth remembering.
Michelle Dean /
American Literature
Eras
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In my experience, and that of a lot of other women writers, all of the questions coming at them from interviewers tend to be about how lucky they are to be where they are - about luck and identity and how the idea struck them.
Eleanor Catton / Author
Identity
Luck
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I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.
Nick Hornby / Novelist
Female
Young Man
Male
Apart
Writers
Interests
Obviously
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There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.
Julie Walters / Actress
Running
Baby
Boomers
Editors
Grammar
Grammar School
Producers
School
Stories
Baby Boomers
Bbc
Writers
Practically
Pill
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I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my staff and three guys so it's pretty equal. I don't know why that is. It's been the same thing for a while. It's hard for female comedians to stand out. That's weird. That's a shame.
Ellen Degeneres / Comedian
Equal
Female
Staff
Three
Weird
Comedians
Writers
Guys
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I think it's so fun when I get to work with women writers in particular because we really understand the core story or foundation as women. That's so important to me that the authenticity is there, you know, from the place that I speak from for my women. Having other females with me helps me dig deeper.
Ciara / Singer-Songwriter
Authenticity
Core
Deeper
Foundation
Particular
Work Women Me
Dig
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Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.
Jami Attenberg / Author
Book
Book Club
Criticism
Equal
Great American
Males
Sections
Women Great Start
Male
Authors
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If you look at most women's writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writer's description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. They're looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.
Lorrie Moore / Writer
Details
Female
Judgmental
Writer
Male
Certain Things
Describe
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I think it's not an accident that you don't have that many Asian American women writers who are breaking out. I don't think it's an accident that you don't have that many Asian American writers, either women or men. I don't think that immigrants are encouraged to become artists. That's very gendered and racialized and ethnicized.
Min Jin Lee / Writer
Immigrants
Accident
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