I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously… — Frances McDormand Copy Share Image
“Dear reader, you've never been a character in a novel, especially not a female character created by a man. You don't understand… — Yeng Pway Ngon Copy Share Image
Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with… — Iain Banks Copy Share Image
A lot of animated movies in the past have sort of relied on these archaic tropes on what the female characters in… — Stephanie Beatriz Copy Share Image
“Lots of talk lately about the GREAT AMERICAN NOVEL that seems to be exclusively masculine. And how many of the characters in… — Kate Zambreno Copy Share Image
One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways… — Bryan Fuller Copy Share Image
I take great pride in portraying a strong female character who is independent and can take care of herself. I don't think… — Inbar Lavi Copy Share Image
I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are… — H. W. Brands Copy Share Image
I think the superhero platform gives the female character, you know, a relate-ability for the male audience as well. So, I think… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
We were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter,… — Matt Fraction Copy Share Image
I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves. — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
I love the female characters in 'She-Ra.' There isn't another show quite like it. — Noelle Stevenson Copy Share Image
I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I… — Jessica Chastain Copy Share Image
I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
I don't think male characters are as one-dimensional as female characters. — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender… — Leigh Bardugo Copy Share Image
Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it. — Josephine Langford Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is… — Robert Harling Copy Share Image
There are a lot of female characters out there that, when they fall on hard times, they sort of stew in their… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
It's difficult to make a movie about a complicated, non-traditional female character. We see a lot more movies with male characters who… — Megan Griffiths Copy Share Image
“Women are, therefore, to be considered either as moral beings, or so weak that they must be entirely subjected to the superior… — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV. — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
