Back Quote by Amanda Blake

The Female Western is the battle between the good and evil methods of getting the men who perform best.

— Warren Farrell

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

— Naomi Wolf

I don't see much of myself in the traditional Western hero.

— Lisa Joy

For a while they wore suits or pants suits, and pants suits are kind of a women's appropriation of male costume, work costume. For…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

“A woman in combat? Yes. Since when? Since Native American warrior Buffalo Calf Road Woman knocked that prick General George Custer off of his…

— M.B. Dallocchio

“Within her the core of rebellion hardened. She would dress as she chose, because clothes and appearance were part of a woman’s armor in…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“A woman of battle cannot take the same risks as a woman of the fields or a woman of the town. One may not…

— Jordan MacLean

“What has been valued in the West in women has too often been defined only in relation to the masculine: the good, nurturant mother…

— Sylvia Perera

She was a lioness. She was described as an iron fist in a velvet glove. She needed that culture and background to survive in…

— Sean Hepburn Ferrer

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

— Bruce Boxleitner

Westerns aren't about the gunfight, even though it has to be there at one point. It's not what they're about, at least the good…

— Kevin Costner

Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this…

— Sandra Day O'Connor