Gendered Writing Quotes

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

Virginia Woolf thought a lot about her own sex when she wrote. In the best sense of the word, her writing is very feminine, and by that I mean that women are supposed to be very sensitive to all the sensations of nature, much more so than men, much more contemplative. It's this quality that marks her best works.

I'm interested in dismantling the distinction between masculine and feminine writing both because I think it's a false distinction and, I think, ultimately an insulting one. It's as insulting to men as it is to women. I'm not sure what masculine writing would look like - I assume some combination of Ernest Hemingway and Raymond Carver. Writing can't be gendered in that way.

I think women tend to write about how violence feels, whereas men tend to write about what violence looks like.

It is much easier not to write like a man than to write like a woman.

If I'd learned nothing else, it was this: If you want to be a great writer, be a man. If you can't be a man, write like one.

I feel like women very often do write differently than men, but women write things that men can't write.

A book is not an example of 'women's writing' simply because it is written by a woman. Writing may become 'women's writing' when it could not have been written by a man.

Not all women write the same. But I don't understand why the model is that you're supposed to write like a man, and that means you're a real writer.

there is no 'feminine writing' ... and one makes a mistake is using and giving currency to this expression.

I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two I know whether it is by a woman or not.