Character Quote by Chloe Zhao

My idea is to write a story where every character is well etched out, irrespective of their gender. Because they all are human beings…

— Sriram Raghavan

You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly felt that the women are oppressed, but power tends…

— Margaret Atwood

I've always been open to exploring the pitfalls of masculinity, because there are a lot of them. Trying to create more discussion around that…

— Harris Dickinson

“Feminist narrative theory notes that for most of literary history there's been an imbalance between men's and women's stories. Male characters go out into…

— Laurie Frankel

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed…

— Simone de Beauvoir

We need to humanize women instead of making the idea of a woman be so stigmatized. That's what's interesting to me as a writer…

— Clea DuVall

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

I've written short stories from male perspectives before, and I've never had a problem with it as long as I've understood the character's emotions…

— Sara Shepard

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham

Many of our troubles in the world today arise from an over-emphasis of the masculine, and a neglect of the feminine. This modern world…

— Eva Burrows

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything…

— Marjorie Liu

“Secondly, you can spend your whole life being a story that happens to somebody else. You can twist and cram and shave down every…

— Laurie Penny