Contemporary Quote by Denzel Washington

'Fences' is under the headline of the project of my lifetime. It is the most perfect and undeniably developed narrative that I've ever worked…

— Viola Davis

I think it was the same thing that really makes the premise of this film [Women of Wall Street] compelling: the idea of a…

— Meera Menon

The great thing about fiction is that I don't have to settle on an answer to any troubling question, or even a solution. I…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

“In the 1950s at least less was expected of women. Now we're supposed to build a career, build a home, be the supermum that…

— Sara Sheridan

“Either the woman was incredibly malleable and naive—or she may have been open to enticement, no matter what she told the authorities. Hers is…

— Gaiutra Bahadur

Men's stories are seen as universal, women's as particular. What women are up against is the battle to not be marginalized.

— Cheryl Strayed

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the…

— Diablo Cody

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 grew up reading crime fiction and, especially in the '80s, women were just there to be saved or screwed.

— Karin Slaughter

When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country.…

— Nancy Dubuc

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole…

— Bette Davis

“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