70 Female Characters Quotes for You to Enjoy

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up half the planet, which we do. Geena Davis

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People focus on the darker female characters in my books, but for every one of those, I can also show you an equally screwed up man that no one ever comments about, or a nicer woman that no one comments about. I don't feel like that's my specialty. Gillian Flynn

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I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that. Greta Gerwig

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I just don't feel like I've seen very many movies about 17-year-old girls where the question is not, 'Will she find the right guy' or 'Will he find her?' The question should be, 'Is she going to occupy her personhood?' Because I think we're very unused to seeing female characters, particularly young female characters, as people. Greta Gerwig

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I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events. H. W. Brands

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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

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I am not one to go for traditional female roles, because I don't think traditionally female characters are very interesting, and I don't think they represent real life. Jessica Chastain

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I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it. Joan D. Vinge

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I never set out to be the man who writes a lot of female characters. John Allison

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I've always had difficulties with female characters. John le Carre

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I'm just hoping that as I get older, and as more and more movies get made by female directors, what we start to see is how, in the same way good male directors get a shot at creating interesting male and female characters, women do as well. Karyn Kusama

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I don't think there's any great mystery to writing female characters, so long as you talk to them. If you lived in a monastery and never met any women, maybe it would be difficult. Ken Follett

I like anti-hero women. Negative female characters interest me. Leila Slimani

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With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls. Louis Sachar

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I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so. Marcus Sakey

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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

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I've done movies that have mostly feminine characters and elements, and I think that both 'Heathers' and 'Truth About Cats and Dogs' are, in their own weird ways - they're different ends of the girl movie spectrum, but they're very much centered around the female characters, and I like those movies, and I like working with good actresses. Michael Lehmann

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I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters. Michael Lehmann

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