Action Quote by Katee Sackhoff

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

— Anonymous

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

At one time, especially during the era of action heroes, women took a bit of a secondary role because heroes were doing most of…

— Poonam Dhillon

My women characters should not exist only to play the 'love interest' of a male character.

— Sriram Raghavan

It's only recently women got to be action heroes on TV. Progress is slow, and often non-existent. There's plenty of cool comics with female…

— Joss Whedon

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

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or…

— Harriet Walter

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

— Kent Haruf

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

I think there need to be more female action heroines out there that are intelligent and not overly masculine and things like that so…

— Mary Elizabeth Winstead

The characters that I want to play are interesting women. I don't care if they're good women or bad women or vulnerable women or…

— Gwendoline Christie

I feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

— Aishwarya Lekshmi