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We are used to female writers who use their private lives as unmitigated material being somewhat hormonal; this somehow 'excuses' what might be seen as a highly unfeminine ability to turn their personal upsets into money.

— Julie Burchill

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.

— Virginia Woolf

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

— Amy Clampitt

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female housewife, people say, 'This is just something Barbara wanted to do; it's not professional.'

— Barbara W. Tuchman

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

— Chris O'Dowd

The business of fiction is the study of the human condition, and gender is something that many humans are obsessed with, thus making it rather difficult to ignore when studying the human condition!

— Charles Stross

I'm not one of those women writers who are obsessed by their ego, possibly because I don't have one.

— Elfriede Jelinek

When you're a woman with a certain amount of fame and money, you are never certain what someone's motives are.

— Patricia Richardson

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

— Ronda Rousey

✗Opposing Perspectives

The fact is, women don't like to talk about money, let alone deal with it. Though we're killing it at work, earning more than ever, running our households, and making big-ticket decisions, too many women still worry they'll be judged by what they earn and how they spend it.

— Alexa Von Tobel

I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

— Ottessa Moshfegh