This is a partial list of modernist women writers.
- Anna Akhmatova (1889-1966), Russian poet
- Isabel Allende (born 1942), Chilean-American novelist
- Djuna Barnes (1892–1982), American novelist, playwright, etc.
- Kay Boyle (1902–1992), American novelist, poet, short story writer
- Mary Butts (1890–1937), British novelist
- Kate Chopin (1851–1904), American novelist, short story writer
- H.D. (1886–1961), American poet, novelist, memoirist
- Radclyffe Hall (1880-1943), British novelist, poet
- Lillian Hellman (1905–1984), American playwright, memoirist
- Ada Verdun Howell (1902–1981), Australian poet
- Zora Neale Hurston (1891–1960), American novelist
- Marie-Elena John (b. 1963), Antiguan novelist, Africanist
- Amy Lowell (1874–1925), American poet
- Mina Loy (1882-1966), British poet
- Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892–1950), American poet
- Marianne Moore (1887-1972), American poet and essayist
- Silvina Ocampo (1903 - 1994), Argentine poet, short-fiction writer
- Jean Rhys (1890-1979), Caribbean novelist
- Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957). British novelist
- Edith Sitwell (1887–1964), British poet and critic
- Gertrude Stein (1874-1946), American poet, playwright, essayist, etc.
- Edith Wharton (1862–1937), American novelist, short story writer
- Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist, essayist, short-fiction writer
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“Thirty—the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)
“Every morning I woke in dread, waiting for the day nurse to go on her rounds and announce from the list of names in her hand whether or not I was for shock treatment, the new and fashionable means of quieting people and of making them realize that orders are to be obeyed and floors are to be polished without anyone protesting and faces are to be made to be fixed into smiles and weeping is a crime.”
—Janet Frame (b. 1924)
“The modernist writers found despair inspirational.”
—Mason Cooley (b. 1927)
“I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married to brutal men as Canada was to the slaves of brutal masters.”
—Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906)
“If there is a special Hell for writers it would be in the forced contemplation of their own works, with all the misconceptions, the omissions, the failures that any finished work of art implies.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)