Extraordinary Quote by Kingsley Amis

Most people assume wrongly that science fiction is a male-based genre, when, in fact, there are far more women who tune into sci-fi than…

— Bonnie Hammer

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only…

— Steven Moffat

The sci-fi genre just happens to have a lot of really great characters for women.

— Jewel Staite

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to…

— William Gibson

There are plenty of images of women in science fiction. There are hardly any women.

— Joanna Russ

Take 'Ex Machina.' Everyone said it was one of the great feminist works of science fiction. But what I found disappointing is that everything…

— Marjorie Liu

I've been on this earth for sixty-six years, and I've reached a conclusion and it's a fact: women are strange creatures.

— Phil Robertson

The planet is populated by human beings, of which there are only two sexes, and the role of the writer is to explore otherness,…

— Yann Martel

Most of the female characters I admire come from science fiction and fantasy, maybe because there's more permission to shake up gender roles in…

— Leigh Bardugo

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it's more culturally associated with…

— Samantha Shannon

Long historical books get written by women, but not contemporary experiments, which still seems to be a very male-dominated field.

— Eleanor Catton

“Astronomy, because of that peculiar history, has a fascinating legacy of early contributions by women.”

— Neil deGrasse Tyson