Comic Quote by Winona Ryder

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

— Katheryn Winnick

In books by women and for women, it should come as no surprise that heroines are the heroes of the action, finding themselves, their…

— Sarah MacLean

It was a basic plot in any number of her books: girl strikes out, makes good, finds love, gets revenge. In that order. The…

— Sarah Dessen

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman.…

— Ruth Wilson

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth…

— Maxine Hong Kingston

I love women being the heroes of the piece. There is just something so dramatic and important about this story [The Nightingale ].

— Megan Chance

I loved playing a character that women fancied.

— Ray Fearon

I loved seeing a lead female character who isn't perfect and isn't demonized for it.

— Josephine Langford

I love flawed female characters, duking it out.

— Lena Dunham

I also really pay attention to whether the script embodies a full female character or if they're just wanting a two-dimensional objectified woman. So…

— Karla Souza

“Show a girl a pioneering hero—Sylvia Plath, Dorothy Parker, Frida Kahlo, Cleopatra, Boudicca, Joan of Arc—and you also, more often than not, show a…

— Caitlin Moran

But when a young lady is to be a heroine, the perverseness of forty surrounding families cannot prevent her. Something must and will happen…

— Jane Austen