via 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.

Alice Munro? Really? Groan. Adding to the list: Banana Yoshimoto.

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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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    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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    zora neale hurston, louise erdrich, and a definite yes for flannery.

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    Forgot Sylvia Plath

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    Zadie Smith, Anne Carson, Francine Prose

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    Alice Munro? Really? Groan. Adding to the list: Banana Yoshimoto.

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    Margaret Atwood. And Barbara Ehrenreich, obvs.

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    patti smith counts and

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    Joyce Carol Oates.

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