Feminism as a movement left big afterimage on whole society. Women during lifetime have been supervened on all kinds of barriers in society, therefore they decided to fight to achieve their rights and equality with men. Literature and writing at all was one of many territories where women couldn’t participate. During the fight for their rights, the only weapon they used to send message to the public was written word. Exactly that was one of the biggest reversals because women started writing books and launching women's magazines in which they primarily write about cooking, house work and household. Later they recalled on a numerous problems in society, for example sexual inequality and the status of women in society. It is important to mentioned many of the first female writers in Croatia like: Jagoda Truhelka, she was the first editor of the first women magazine named “Domaće ognjište”, Dragojla Jarnjević was the first who has publicly spoken about the status of woman in family, Irena Vrkljan was author of the first female novel “Svila, škare”, Marija Jurić-Zagorka was first professional female journalist, Irena Vrklja, Slavenka Drakulić and many others. These successful writers manage to insure the freedom of the written word whit their courage, their effort and their actions for all the women in the future. The purpose of this essay is summary insight about how feminism influenced women in literature and also activity and achievements of the first female writers in Croatia.