Female Writers Quotes

My world did not shrink because I was a black female writer. It just got bigger.

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

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.

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

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.

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]..."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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!

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

People will never forget how you made them feel.