Doing Quote by Lisa Tuttle

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

— Jewel Staite

What we need is more women writers, writing for older women. There are some actresses who have production companies and create their own material,…

— Kathleen Turner

I really wanted to explore a range of women who aren't necessarily perfect, heroic women. I wanted to series to influence creative people to…

— Anita Sarkeesian

I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing,…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

What I find interesting and heartening, though, is that there does seem to be a shift in the subject matter being written about by…

— Laurie Foos

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

We had a moment in the '40s and '50s, where female characters were very strong in film, where these incredible roles were written for…

— Monica Bellucci

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.

— Elizabeth Wurtzel

It was not until Web comics that I saw stories about women and stories by women and things that were aimed specifically at female…

— Noelle Stevenson

We have to hear the stories of women at all ages of their lives in order to really present a picture of what it…

— Marsha Norman

The history of fan fiction demonstrates how efficient, and effective, women have been at pooling together to get what they want out of their…

— Sherwood Smith

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson