Books Quote by Jenny Han

“Romance novels feature nuanced portrayals of female characters having adventures, making choices, and accepting themselves just as they are. When we say these stories…

— Maya Rodale

“This collection propose that contemporary stories of girlhood constitute a new and generative lens for literary and cultural study.”

— Ruth O. Saxton

I think as a young actress, it's very rare that you read something where you're not either 'the girl' or there to serve some…

— Sienna Miller

I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we…

— Greta Gerwig

Romance novels are tales of brave women taming dangerous men. They are stories that capture the excitement of that most mysterious of relationships, the…

— Jayne Ann Krentz

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

— Iain Banks

We have to get women's stories out there so a guy will read it, laugh, and think, 'I'm not laughing at a chick story…

— Jen Kirkman

Girls may love movies about fairytale princes, but their most captivating romance is with their friends.

— Rachel Simmons

I never get the girl - I always die. That is the catch with playing bad. I'm actually a very romantic person, and I…

— Michael Wincott

It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.

— Susanna Fogel

“These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is…

— Ariel Levy

“Two adolescent girls on a hot summer night--hardly the material of great literature, which tends to endow all male experience (that of those twin…

— Kathryn Davis