Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

I feel there is something unexplored about woman that only a woman can explore.

Until you become a woman you don't know the things that come with being a woman.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

I don't have to explain anything to trans women. Trans women know exactly what's going on.

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.

The female perspective is what I relate to and I understand it. I find it fascinating. I like to see women in challenging situations and see how they deal with it or don't deal with it.

Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.

It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Naturally my stories are about women - I'm a woman. I don't know what the term is for men who write mostly about men. I'm not always sure what is meant by "feminist." In the beginning I used to say, well, of course I'm a feminist. But if it means that I follow a kind of feminist theory, or know anything about it, then I'm not. I think I'm a feminist as far as thinking that the experience of women is important. That is really the basis of feminism.

Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil.

You know what, I just write what I feel.

I want to write my life. I want to be able to write my life. You are a second away from saying it. You have no idea how much I love you.

I'd written Smashed not because I was ambitious and not because writing down my feelings was cathartic (it felt more like playing one's own neurosurgeon sans anesthesia). No. I'd made a habit--and eventually a profession--of memoir because I hail from one of those families where shows of emotions are discouraged.

One writes in order to feel.

I write emotional algebra.

There are many times where a woman would gladly drop her husband if she did not feel morally certain that some other woman would come right along and pick him up.

I like to write about things that are extreme in some form. I like to write about something I feel I have to write about.

I don't really care about how good a song is, I only want them to reflect what I felt when I was writing them

I always loved writing as a tool of expression.

When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are tendered conscious.

I'm much more into someone who is telling stories than somebody who is writing a record about their breakup. It's just more interesting for me.

The shame of being a man - is there any better reason to write?

Anais Nin shows an occasional grace in writing, but her work is quite foreign to me, precisely because she wants so much to be feminine and not feminist. And then she is so gaga before so many men. She talks about men I know in France, men who were less than nothing, and she considers them kings, extraordinary people.

It's very hard to be an experimental woman writer. If I had been writing under a pseudonym, just initials, I might have a different reputation - but, then I couldn't be myself either.