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Our films are now portraying the real woman of today, and thankfully, female characters are pretty close to reality. This is a welcome change,…

— Supriya Pathak

“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories…

— Maya Rodale

When women's parts are being written, they are more and more for under 30s who are nubile and beautiful. Actresses over 40 are finding…

— Samantha Bond

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

It used to be that when an actress reached thirty, she was considered almost washed up.

— Lana Turner

I long for the day where we don't have to talk about our age as actresses,

— Celia Imrie

I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and you feel…

— Sigourney Weaver

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to…

— Carrie Coon

“The proper stuff of fiction” does not exist everything is the proper stuff of fiction every feeling every thought every quality of brain and…

— Virginia Woolf

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become…

— Maggie O'Farrell

As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only excuse that…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson