Actors Quote by Clive Standen

Viking women were able to rule kingdoms, divorce husbands, own land; and Vikings were very progressive in terms of the rights of women.

— Gabriel Byrne

While there are few records of Viking women participating in battle, they certainly held positions of high status in society as human sorceresses known…

— Neil MacGregor

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or…

— Harriet Walter

We just don't subscribe to the conventional wisdom that you can't have an action series led by a female character. It's kinda nonsense to…

— Bryan Konietzko

Crucially, in Westeros, there's probably no space for a girlboss story, because it's a patriarchal culture that keeps women tightly restricted.

— Emma D'Arcy

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

So many women characters are extensions of male fantasy.

— Viola Davis

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

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

— Cheo Hodari Coker

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

It's not just about casting female protagonists. It's gotta be across the board throughout the industry.

— Kathleen Kennedy

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has…

— Linda Woolverton