Also Quote by Karin Slaughter

I never could understand why some writers treat women as helpless. Every woman I know is strong in her own unique way.

— Terry Goodkind

There's a tendency among some male writers to make the women in their stories weak and needing of rescue so that their hero looks…

— Karin Slaughter

People often tell me, "You write such great women." I don't think about it, I just write characters as rigorously and as truthfully as…

— Donald Margulies

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough.…

— Ravi Subramanian

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

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect…

— William Gibson

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story…

— Joan D. Vinge

I like portraying women of character in my books. Women who exhibit loyalty and courage.

— Sudha Murty

As a woman, I don't feel like I have a responsibility to create better female characters. I feel like I have a responsibility to…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen…

— J. J. Abrams

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films…

— Gal Gadot

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when…

— Meg Cabot