Female Characters Quotes - Page 3

• Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

  Meg Cabot

  Strong, Character, Decision

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• When a female character sets herself on fire in an effort to interrupt her culture's violent abuse of disenfranchised people, or physically tortures and punishes her guardian rapist, or picks up a gun and fights back in ways that make her not pretty, or aggressively rejects her role as the object of desire, or even when she waddles off into the woods to squat and have a baby without the safety and expertise of hospitals and doctors, these are the kinds of violences and stories we can learn from.

  Lidia Yuknavitch

  Baby, Character, Fighting

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• Whether consciously or unconsciously, I felt myself drawn to writing a female character who was pretty flawed and not very virtuous or wonderful or attractive in these ways that throughout literary history we've come to expect female characters to be.

  Leni Zumas

  Writing, Character, Way

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• I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Careers, Challenges

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

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• There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

  Vera Farmiga

  Writing, Character, Female

  "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.

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• The love and support from the Witches of East End fans continues to blow us away and renews our faith that storytelling matters, strong female characters matter, and messages about faith and hope matter. I love this family. I love this story. And to be part of a show that has inspired and touched so many people's hearts is a true blessing.

  Rachel Boston

  Strong, Character, Heart

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• I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.

  Rose Leslie

  Strong, Character, Men

  "Game Of Thrones: Access' Countdown To Season 3 Q&A - Rose Leslie Talks Ygritte". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. March 5, 2013.

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• If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Character, Males

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Real, Book

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

  Ryan Gosling

  Strong, Character, Profound

  "These Celebrity Men Love Their Moms, Would Totally Make Them Their Valentines" by April Sperry, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 12, 2014.

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• I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Character, Empowerment, Female

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• It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Taken, Character, People

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• If screenwriters have to kill off a female character, they love to give her cancer. We've seen so many great actresses go down to the Big C: Ali MacGraw, Meryl Streep, Emma Thompson, Debra Winger, Susan Sarandon.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Cancer, Character, Giving

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• I firmly believe in and support everyone's right to freedom of artistic expression. STEEL MAGNOLIAS is my artistic expression, and it is my right to say that its female characters be portrayed by women. The concept of a play set in a beauty parlor where men portray women is a terrific idea. If that is someone's artistic expression, I encourage them to write their own play as soon as possible.

  Robert Harling

  Believe, Writing, Character

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• When I'm looking for a strong female character, or a strong character at all, I'm looking for a character that has a purpose in that story, that has an interior life of some sort. They don't have to be physically strong; they don't have to be morally strong or ethically strong, because men and women come in a huge variety of all of those things. Emotionally, ethically - I'm less concerned with that. I just don't want them to be props. That's the only thing that offends me.

  Kelly Sue DeConnick

  Strong, Character, Men

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• What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Strong, Character, Weakness

  "A teen just trying to figure it out". TEDxTeen Talk, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

  Helen Mirren

  Strong, Hate, Character

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• Here's my feeling: For everyone, men and women, it's important to be a feminist. It's important to have female characters. It's wonderful for women to mentor other women, but it's just as important for women to mentor men and vice-versa. In my line of work, having Greg Daniels be such a great mentor to me is fantastic. Finding a writer's assistant, be it a man or a woman, and encouraging them to think with a feminist perspective, is key.

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, Men, Thinking

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• Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

  Sara Sheridan

  Girl, Writing, Character

  "Historic Edinburgh fashion at the City Art Centre" by Sara Sheridan, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2011.

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• None of the male characters are as powerful or as interesting as the four central female characters. The men work best as representations of the current stage of a particular female’s psyche. The men function as catalysts, and are certainly important to the development of the story, but the relationships are not the goal. I do not see romance as being what’s central to the success of PRETTY LITTLE LIARS.

  Norman Buckley

  Powerful, Liars, Character

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• If you do a black character or a female character or an Asian character, then they aren't just that character. They represent that race or that sex, and they can't be interesting because everything they do has to represent an entire block of people. You know, Superman isn't all white people and neither is Lex Luthor. We knew we had to present a range of characters within each ethnic group, which means that we couldn't do just one book. We had to do a series of books and we had to present a view of the world that's wider than the world we've seen before.

  Dwayne McDuffie

  Sex, Block, Book

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• When I look at female characters, I want to recognize myself in them - my trials, my tribulations as a mother, as a wife, as a lover, as a daughter.

  Vera Farmiga

  Daughter, Mother, Character

  "For Vera Farmiga, A Search Leads To 'Higher Ground'". "All Things Considered" with Robert Siegel, www.npr.org. August 26, 2011.

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• I'm really attracted to strong women. Let me rephrase that, I'm really attracted to strong female characters.

  Portia de Rossi

  Strong Women, Character, Female

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• If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Women, Believe, Character

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• Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

  Ian Mcewan

  Character, Female, Desert

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