Character Quote by Jinkx Monsoon

I do not think that when I write a female character, I intend to reflect my thoughts on gender equality, but I always make…

— Sriram Raghavan

I portray female characters, so I have the opportunity to change the way people look at them. Even if I wasn't consciously doing that,…

— Frances McDormand

I feel that we should try and understand how we as women storytellers have often fallen into the mode of telling stories in the…

— Danae Elon

I am not sure gender ever won't be an issue in comedy, because I think that women do have different priorities in some respects.

— Jenny Eclair

What it feels like is that we want women to conform to a certain image. Which is interesting, insofar as acting is concerned, because,…

— Emma D'Arcy

It used to be that you had to make female TV characters perfect so no one would be offended by your 'portrayal' of women.…

— Mindy Kaling

It's not at all a far jump to think that overall perceptions of gender - and what is and is not important in gender…

— Maria Konnikova

As someone who is non-binary gender identifying, I feel a particular responsibility to portray members of my community on stage and on screen, not…

— Asia Kate Dillon

There's a thing that creeps into this conversation ... that if you complain about the depiction of women [in comics], it becomes, 'Well, but…

— Kelly Sue DeConnick

As far as I'm concerned, being any gender is a drag.

— Patti Smith

I feel like it's too easy to just say, "We'll just change the name of this male character to a female, but have her…

— Brie Larson

I do feel that historically having gendered categories has helped from keeping women actors from a lot of erasure because I think historically people…

— Lily Gladstone