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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!

Literary fiction is kept alive by women. Women read more fiction, period.

Romantic fiction is the only purely feminine art form. All other art forms were shaped and are dominated by men.

Thrillers have been traditionally very masculine books; the women characters often rather decorative.

I don't think that a film should be known as 'male-centric' or 'female-centric,' but it should be known for the story. That would be really nice, and viable, too.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional sci-fi.

Far more women read fiction than men, and because of this, novels have become marginalised as serious texts.

Certainly, there is a tendency to lump women who write similar types of books together, and it's not just in crime, is it? Women's fiction is supposedly a whole genre of itself. There's no male equivalent.