tragos:

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.

Zadie Smith, Anne Carson, Francine Prose

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