Character Quote by Marjorie Liu

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

— Jewel Staite

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

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've always been a reader of science fiction, and I have loved a lot of feminist science fiction.

— Naomi Alderman

I have never read a really good novel written by a man where women are portrayed as they truly are. They can be portrayed…

— Simone de Beauvoir

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

Writers of feminist dystopian fiction are alert to the realities that grind down women's lives, that make the unthinkable suddenly thinkable.

— Naomi Alderman

I think the first trick to writing a feminist work is to write plenty of women. That way you get to write characters, instead…

— Leigh Bardugo

I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me…

— Laurie Foos

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

— Phoebe Waller-Bridge

“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

When I look at the list of my favorite works, writers who are women do tend to outnumber writers who are men for whatever…

— Rumaan Alam