this is my running list of women writers who define badass

i’d add Edna St Vincent Millay and Jessica Mitford. and i vote for bumping Dorothy Parker up from runner-up

newsweek:

tanya77:

Margaret Atwood. And Barbara Ehrenreich, obvs.

evangotlib:

meaghano:

  • joan didion
  • marilynne robinson
  • alice munro
  • mary gaitskill
  • grace paley
  • anais nin

Who else?

(I don’t think Lorrie Moore is a badass, but that is certainly up for debate. I’m not even sure what I mean, but I just don’t think BADASS when I think of her.).

Runners up include: Carson McCullers, Dorothy Parker

Flannery O’Connor must be on this list.

Joyce Carol Oates.

Source: meaghano

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    (for personal reference)
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    Going to pick Michaela Wrong here, who wrote two amazing books on modern African politics on the Congo and Eritrea,...
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  5. williamsdb reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    i’d add Edna St Vincent Millay and Jessica Mitford. and i vote for bumping Dorothy Parker up from runner-up
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  7. superdoofus-stratodrive reblogged this from tragos and added:
    zora neale hurston, louise erdrich, and a definite yes for flannery.
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  9. akaplan716 reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    Forgot Sylvia Plath
  10. tragos reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Zadie Smith, Anne Carson, Francine Prose
  11. ohrohin reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Alice Munro? Really? Groan. Adding to the list: Banana Yoshimoto.
  12. newsweek reblogged this from tanya77 and added:
    Margaret Atwood. And Barbara Ehrenreich, obvs.
  13. littlekhole reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    patti smith counts and
  14. tanya77 reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    Joyce Carol Oates.
  15. rebeccalando reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    COME ON! So many left out! jk rowling, simply for getting so damn many kids to love reading. and for not writing about...