“I suggest to my students that they write under a pseudonym for a week. That allows young men to write as women, and women as men. It allows them a lot of freedom they don't have ordinarily.”

“In the old times, women did not get their lives written, though I don't doubt many of them were much better worth writing than the men's.”

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) Abolitionist, author

“Men like women who write, even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Marguerite Duras (1914–1996) French writer and film director

“Women writers should write a lot if they want to write. Take the English women, for example. What amazing workers.”

Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician

“My men have turned into women and my women into men!”

Herodotus book Histories

“The best way to learn to write is to study the work of the men and women who are doing the kind of writing you want to do.”

William Zinsser (1922–2015) writer, editor, journalist, literary critic, professor

“Women write crime better than men do. Men tend to play it safe, relying on an old-boy's network (to get work). Women feel freer. They swing for the bleachers.”

Rene Balcer (1954) screenwriter, producer and director

“The sadness of the women's movement is that they don't allow the necessity of love. See, I don't personally trust any revolution where love is not allowed.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“Protect the interests of the youth, women and children--provide assistance to young students who cannot afford to continue their studies, help the youth and women to organize in order to participate on a equal footing in all work useful to the war effort and to social progress, ensure freedom of marriage and equality as between men and women, and give young people and children a useful education.”

Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China

“Women are great at talking and expressing their emotions, while men are great at reasoning and writing down their thoughts.”

Mwanandeke Kindembo (1996) Congolese author