Appeal Quote by Samantha Shannon

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

— Jewel Staite

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

“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

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

The 1970s were so wonderful for women writers. There were all these women, and they were seen as doing the most interesting, innovative and…

— Lisa Tuttle

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

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 don't think that a film should be known as 'male-centric' or 'female-centric,' but it should be known for the story. That would be…

— Anushka Sharma

I'd love to write something for a male protagonist. That's sort of the next frontier for me. I think it'd be really amazing to…

— Lena Dunham

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

— Eleanor Catton

Women want love to be a novel, men a short story.

— Daphne du Maurier

From its beginning, fan fiction has been written mostly by women. Originally, this was because of a dearth of interesting female characters in conventional…

— Russell Smith