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I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and…

— Todd Haynes

Sometimes, as a young woman, you are boxed in more to playing characters that are emotional and vulnerable.

— Miranda Otto

I don't see female characters as different or inferior to male characters.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

— Kent Haruf

Even in stories that I like, with a female character that I love deeply, it always feels like there's something that she has to…

— Noelle Stevenson

I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make…

— Sriram Raghavan

I feel like women have an easier time separating from their characters than men do.

— Vanessa Hudgens

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when…

— Meg Cabot

Oftentimes in films, the female character, if she's not the protagonist - and often, even if she is - feels like an imitation of…

— Tessa Thompson

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much…

— Peter Straub

As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to…

— Tate Taylor

There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

— Vera Farmiga