Hero Quote by Karin Slaughter

I'm always conscious when I'm writing a story that the women in my books need to save themselves. They don't need to be scooped…

— Karin Slaughter

We haven't evolved a hero story that's female. We're always trying to fit women's stories into this male structure, which is this rising action,…

— Carrie Coon

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

In my books, women often solve the problem. Even if the woman is not the hero, she's a strong character. She does change the…

— Ken Follett

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 tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

— Katee Sackhoff

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by…

— Courtney A. Kemp

I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and…

— Jennifer Lawrence

It's a problem with a lot of female characters, that a lot of them are guy oriented or what they're expressing or emoting is…

— Jenna Ortega

For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like.…

— Brie Larson

“Why is it that women are the only ones who will write perfect men into fiction? It's strange. If a man portrayed his fictional…

— Rachel Heffington

Women have a faith in themselves that is unpragmatic and in each other that's just emotional and f - ing strong. Both of those…

— Kristen Stewart