this is my running list of women writers who define badass
  • 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

  1. tarts reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    (for personal reference)
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  3. thetan reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Dorothy Parker is a runner up?!? newsweek:
  4. alexanderbasek reblogged this from ohrohin and added:
    Going to pick Michaela Wrong here, who wrote two amazing books on modern African politics on the Congo and Eritrea,...
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  7. 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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  9. superdoofus-stratodrive reblogged this from tragos and added:
    zora neale hurston, louise erdrich, and a definite yes for flannery.
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  11. akaplan716 reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    Forgot Sylvia Plath
  12. electricpencils reblogged this from afghanibanani and added:
    Um, Chelsea Chapa? (Are you submitting something for the music issue of Ghoti?)
  13. afghanibanani reblogged this from tragos and added:
    Ursula K. LeGuin, Shirley Jackson
  14. tragos reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Zadie Smith, Anne Carson, Francine Prose
  15. ohrohin reblogged this from newsweek and added:
    Alice Munro? Really? Groan. Adding to the list: Banana Yoshimoto.
  16. newsweek reblogged this from tanya77 and added:
    Margaret Atwood. And Barbara Ehrenreich, obvs.
  17. littlekhole reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    patti smith counts and
  18. tanya77 reblogged this from evangotlib and added:
    Joyce Carol Oates.
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    U GAIZ 4GOT STEPHENIE MEYER
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    COME ON! So many left out! jk rowling, simply for getting so damn many kids to love reading. and for not writing about...
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  22. elizabethlovatt reblogged this from walkwhilereading and added:
    yeah Dorothy Parker for the original badass! Ali Smith’s pretty cool too. Maybe not totally badass though, just awesome...
  23. essbee reblogged this from walkwhilereading and added:
    Yes, Flannery O’Connor. Also: Virginia Woolf, Toni Morrison, Joyce Carol Oates. And soon, Deborah.
  24. marthamcfly reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    robison, patricia highsmith, ludmilla petrushevskaya, elaine showalter
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  27. evangotlib reblogged this from meaghano and added:
    Flannery O’Connor must be on this list.
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