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Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.
— Cheryl Strayed
I think women have every right to feel like they're the protagonists in their own stories.
— Kelly Sue DeConnick
Aw honey. Today's as important as forever." Grandpa Joe in "Shave and a Haircut" Flash Warden and Other Stories
— Eileen Granfors
What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser
The world would split open. — Muriel Rukeyser
He without inspiration and motivation exists no more in a world full of innovations and inventions!
— Darnaya Darice
My daughter loves stories about my childhood, and we both love discussing women's issues. She's a wise and mature ten-year-old.
— Jeffrey Zeldman
Women owe Friedan an incalculable debt for The Feminine Mystique. Domesticity was not a satisfactory story of an intelligent woman's life.
— Elizabeth Fox-Genovese
Female curiosity. Women like to know the stories of their friends' lives. Women like to understand
— Holly Chamberlin
We need to celebrate stories by women, for women, as just one more way to redress gender injustice.
— Shami Chakrabarti
I think women love to read love stories.
— E.L. James
Empowered Women 101: You are either creating drama or creating memories together. The choice is yours.
— Shannon L. Alder
I knew that my interest lied in international stories. I was interested in how women were living under the Taliban, for example.
— Lynsey Addario
I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.
— Dylan Penn
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 in my family were hardworking matriarchs. But the stories I saw on TV and movies and even in many books said they were anomalies
— Kameron Hurley
Intuition is truth.
— A.D. Posey
Women inspire me ... so I enjoy women's stories and biographies. I am interested in all women.
— Diane Von Furstenberg
Sure, women sportswriters look when they're in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?
— Bob Uecker
I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.
— Scott Rudin
There are so many untold stories when it comes to great women of color.
— Kerry Washington
Men tell stories," I say. It is the truest, simplest answer to his question. "Women get on with it.
— Kristin Hannah
(Theodore) Roosevelt confessed early fascination with "girls'stories" such as Little Man and Little Women and An Old-Fashioned Girl.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin
I love telling good stories and I love playing powerful, strong women.
— Yvette Gonzalez-Nacer
Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.
— Romola Garai
Most films these days are men's stories. Women are for add-on romance. That's very hard.
— Uma Thurman
I love the idea of being part of a campaign that captures the spirit of New York and the stories of women here, passionate about their dreams.
— Rita Ora
The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isn't true.
— Jill Abramson
The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
War stories, westerns, spy stories are all accepted as respectable because they are read by men. It is only women's light reading which is derided.
— Charlotte Lamb
I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.
— Romola Garai
I love vampire stories. That's why I did the movie. Women especially were taken with that movie-even more so when it came out on video.
— Catherine Deneuve
The reason people are watching women in their mid-fifties is because a lot of those women feel great and have different, interesting stories to tell.
— Katey Sagal
She shuffled with her head bowed, her dark eyes drifting to avoid contact, and she screamed in bed at night. (Dark City Lights)
— Jim Fusilli
Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.
— Colm Toibin
She knew breaking up with Ethan was going to be a full-time job because being in a relationship with him had also been a full-time job.
— Richard Finney
The inclusion of females in stories is specifically discouraged. Women, when used in plot structure, should be secondary in importance .
— Mike Madrid
When women hear each other's stories, told from the heart, it gives us inspiration to keep on going.
— Elizabeth Lesser
Women don't have to be defined by others. We have the power to define ourselves: by telling our own stories, in our own words, with our own voices.
— Sarah Kay
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
I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.
— Megan Griffiths
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.
— Anne Bancroft
I always thought of my mother as a warrior woman, and I became interested in pursuing stories of women who invent lives in order to survive.
— Lynn Nottage
Women know things that men will never know. We keep the best secrets. We tell the best stories.
— Alice Hoffman
We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story but a story.'
— Jen Kirkman
I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women.
— Edna O'Brien
I am interested in stories that concern women.
— Jocelyn Moorhouse
I like stories where women save themselves.
— Neil Gaiman
Old or young, light or dark, full or frail, every woman has qualities that make her beautiful.
— Brownell Landrum
Women tell stories; men want answers. Guys get impatient when we drone on forever; we get frustrated when they tune out.
— Jenna McCarthy
Words from my whole body, my entire life, or the lives of women and girls whose stories got stuck in their throats came gushing out.
— Lidia Yuknavitch
Perhaps all love stories no matter how varied are essentially the same.
— Roy L. Pickering Jr.
I'm always captivated by stories of women who find a way to be daring - misbehaving women.
— Sue Monk Kidd
Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.
— Kate Williams
I love stories about women.
— Clint Eastwood
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
The women I know are smart, interesting people who aren't just there to service the men's stories, so I don't know why our art continues to do that.
— Carrie Coon
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
— Jerry N. Uelsmann
Reading groups, readings, breakdowns of book sales all tell the same story: when women stop reading, the novel will be dead.
— Ian McEwan
Women over 35 have great stories, and the actresses are there, but you can't get the movies made.
— Bonnie Bedelia
Leadership is about encouraging women to break their silence and tell their stories to the world.
— Zainab Salbi
No one is on this road, she thought. No one but us. Everyone knows this isn't the place to be at three o'clock on a summer afternoon. Everyone but us.
— V.S. Kemanis
Gender relations are a sad story of men talking trash about women all over the world.
— John Darnielle
I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.
— Geoffrey S. Fletcher
The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.
— Zainab Salbi
historically fairy tales were women's stories, passed orally in a time when women didn't have many rights.
— Nora Roberts
She hated the namelessness of women in stories, as if they lived and died so that men could have metaphysical insights.
— Chad Harbach
You don't need princes to save you. I don't have a lot of patience for stories in which women are rescued by men.
— Neil Gaiman
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
This world is bursting with silenced women and girls who have stories that need to be screamed, or whispered, or sang.
— Rachel Kann
When you listen to other women's stories you begin to understand your own better and you begin to find ways back through and with each other.
— Eve Ensler
see the stories of women, but they are always stuck inside the stories of men. Why is that?
— Lidia Yuknavitch