Careers Quote by Catherine Hardwicke

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

— Elizabeth Hand

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

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi

When I was growing up, the really, really cool super heroes were all male - so I wanted to be them.

— Virginia Madsen

I love strong female characters.

— Nahnatchka Khan

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

— Lotte Verbeek

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films…

— Gal Gadot

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

— Kent Haruf

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

Male actors don't get asked about playing strong men; they're just men.

— Lesley Sharp

It's cool to be a female character who gets to be really strong and tough.

— Alexandra Daddario