Character Quote by Danae Elon

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

— Parvathy

I would like to find a more precise way to not only tell the stories of female characters, but also do so in a…

— Danae Elon

As much as it's really important, obviously, as a woman in the industry to be choosing the stories which represent women, you also have…

— Jessica Barden

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

Men and women are both humans, so, for me, that makes my characters and the work that I do human stories.

— Elisabeth Moss

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike,…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

Women should be able to come out and narrate stories from their point of view.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Women don't question themselves when they enter into a story that has male characters, but men do question the validity of a female narrative.

— Romola Garai

“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

“Movies, more often than not, tell the stories of men as if men’s stories are the only stories that matter. When women are involved,…

— Roxane Gay

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying…

— Cassandra Clare

“There are more similarities between the writing of men and women than there are differences. Aren't we all just trying to tell stories? How…

— Roxanne Gay