Believe Quote by Leila Slimani

When I was thinking about these women characters, no matter how bad a person I am - a bad writer, my limitations, my sexism,…

— Junot Diaz

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief…

— Courtney A. Kemp

We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is true: when one strolls out, one sees women with scarves and men with beards. This…

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

With fiction, the works of women are often over-interpreted as autobiography, especially when the main character is a woman, especially if she is seen…

— Kate Zambreno

As Commander of the Faithful, it is out of the question that I fight Islam. We need to fight violence and ignorance. It is…

— Mohammed VI of Morocco

As women write, produce and direct more content, the gaze with which stories are told will also become sensible. Female actors will make their…

— Tisca Chopra

The power of the word in Morocco belonged to men and to the authorities. No one asked the point of view of poor people…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is…

— David Levithan

In some ways, every character we write, especially the protagonist, is some version of ourselves, as a writer/director, even if they aren't the same…

— Lulu Wang

Hence, when some members of the Iranian diaspora, especially women at the moment, use different tropes including the trope of the veil and the…

— Mohammad Marandi

I find women as writers and as characters are operating within narrow confines. They inherit a kind of ghetto of the soul. I'm trying…

— Kate Braverman