Female Writers Quotes

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  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.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Maya Angelou from Mar 15, 2014

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

  Alice Walker

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

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

  Alice Walker

  Happiness, Success, Being Happy

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

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Audre Lorde

  Inspiring, Being Yourself, People

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

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  Twitter post from Jan 15, 2017

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• People will never forget how you made them feel.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.37, Random House

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

  Anne Sexton

  Inspirational, Life, Beautiful

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

  Virginia Woolf

  Women, Diversity, Poetry

  A Room of One's Own ch. 3 (1929)

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• 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.

  Ben Kingsley

  Believe, Men, Directors

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

  Chris O'Dowd

  Opportunity, Males, Lines

  "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd". Interview with Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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• 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]..."

  Jennifer Aniston

  Wall, Boys, Men

  Source: www.chicagotribune.com

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• 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.

  Jodi Picoult

  Gay, Color, People

  Source: nudge-book.com

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• 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.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Desire, Energy, Doe

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

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• 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.

  Jamie Lynn Spears

  Girl, Writing, Thinking

  "Jamie Lynn Spears Is All Grown Up and Taking the Country Music Scene by Storm". Interview with Kelsie Gibson, www.popsugar.com. June 23, 2016.

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• 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.

  Katori Hall

  Struggle, Love You, Writing

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

  Erica Jong

  Generations, Fiction, Form

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• 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.

  Toni Morrison

  Thinking, People, Black

  "Disagree with me - but not because I'm a black woman" by Hannah Pool, www.theguardian.com. November 8, 2011.

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• 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!

  Michael Patrick King

  Writing, Years, Rooms

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• 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.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Mean, Giving, Done

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• 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.

  Sally Mann

  Writing, Thinking, Sweat

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

  Doris Lessing

  Fighting, Needs, Conditions

  "Killing Her Softly" by Joseph O'Neil, www.theatlantic.com. September 2010.

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• 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.

  Mindy Kaling

  Men, Thinking, People

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, www.avclub.com. November 16, 2011.

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

  Toni Morrison

  History, Black, World

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• 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.

  Gal Gadot

  Girl, Heartbroken, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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