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I was always looking for the female characters in sci-fi and fantasy who were more than just the girlfriend.
Noelle Stevenson
Looking
Characters
Girlfriend
More
Sci-Fi
Female
Always
Female Characters
Were
Than
Just
Fantasy
Who
All the other characters are so well-rounded, and it's just frustrating because female characters aren't. It's not that they're badly written, they're just underwritten. They have no internal monologues; they could be absolutely anyone.
Ophelia Lovibond
Other
Characters
Could
Absolutely
Written
Badly
Because
Female
Well-Rounded
Female Characters
Just
Anyone
Frustrating
Internal
Monologues
I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.
Park Bo-young
Me
Arrogant
Think
Say
Characters
Tendency
Consumer
Sure
Female
Female Characters
Sound
Might
Should
View
Products
People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.
Peter Jackson
Good
Character
People
Strong
Degree
Think
Considering
Characters
Strong Female
Some
Wrong
She
Sort
Female
Female Character
Female Characters
Proves
Surprisingly
Accuse
Modern
Being
English
Who
Tolkien
Professor
Actually
After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough. I have consciously rectified that in my next four books. In any case, it's true that women run the world, and men would do better to listen to them!
Ravi Subramanian
Me
Women
Book
World
Strong
Better
Men
First
Enough
Back
Books
Tell
Characters
Run
Would
Case
Had
True
Readers
Female
Female Characters
Came
Were
Any
Listen
After
Them
Created
Next
Many
Four
It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.
Rebecca Hall
You
Characters
Box
Female
Female Characters
Fit
Get
Often
Who
What I thought would be fun would be Squirrel Girl being this computer science student, working in STEM, because you don't see a lot of characters there, never mind female characters. Also, I studied computer science, so it's not too hard to write.
Ryan North
You
Science
Mind
Thought
Girl
Computer Science
Too
Characters
Would
Would-Be
See
Computer
Write
Student
Stem
Never
Studied
Also
Because
Female
Female Characters
Lot
Squirrel
Being
Working
Hard
Fun
I have always wanted to work with Lingusamy, as he is a master of commercial cinema. I have always admired his etching of female characters.
Samantha Akkineni
Work
Cinema
Master
Characters
Admired
He
Female
Always
Female Characters
His
Commercial
Wanted
The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.
Sidney Sheldon
Life
Women
Strong
My Life
Characters
Physically
Fact
Also
Attractive
Known
Female
Female Characters
Reflects
Personalities
I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
Tara Strong
Think
Characters
Diverse
General
More
Also
Because
Female
Female Characters
Videogames
Now
Even while I'm really interested in playing female characters that are varied and interesting and dynamic, I'm not of the mind that you always want to play strong female characters. I think I just want to play characters that are interesting, and not all people are 'strong.'
Tessa Thompson
You
People
Strong
Mind
Think
Characters
All People
Strong Female
Varied
Female
Always
Female Characters
Just
Want
Dynamic
While
Interested
Interesting
Really
Even
Play
Playing
I think I'm drawn to female characters partly because they don't have as easy or as obvious a relationship to power in society, and so they suffer under social constraints or have to maneuver within them in ways men sometimes don't or are unconscious about, or have certain liberties that are invisible to them.
Todd Haynes
Relationship
Sometimes
Men
Power
Think
Society
Ways
Liberties
Drawn
Characters
Easy
About
Constraints
Unconscious
Invisible
Obvious
Partly
Because
Within
Female
Female Characters
Maneuver
Social
Them
Certain
Suffer
James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.
Tracy Pollan
Women
Way
Characters
Writers
He
Female
Female Characters
Understands
Male
Lot
James
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
William Gibson
Book
Writing
Strong
Setting
Unless
Characters
Strong Female
Some
Demand
Without
Female
Female Characters
Imagine
It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.
Yvonne Strahovski
Nice
Those
Characters
See
About
Emerging
More
Industry
Because
Female
Always
Female Characters
Males
Often
Especially in comedies, I think a lot of time the female characters are there to provide a balance for guys.
Zooey Deschanel
Time
Balance
Think
Characters
Guys
Comedies
Female
Female Characters
Provide
Lot
I think part of the pressure put on 'strong female characters' comes from the fact that there is so often 'the team girl,' who must be all things to all people. Part of avoiding that is having as many female characters as I can, and allowing them to thrive in their own right, not inside a framework they didn't ask for and don't want.
Seanan McGuire
People
Strong
Pressure
Girl
Thrive
Own
Think
Framework
I Think
I Can
Characters
All People
Must
All Things
Strong Female
Inside
Having
Fact
Allowing
Part
Put
Female
Female Characters
Often
Want
Them
Ask
Team
Avoiding
Who
Many
Right
Things
I am a cisgender woman who has always had a lot of female friends. While many of us have traits in common, none of us will ever be exactly the same. So it's enormously important to me that my female characters be people, and be allowed to be whatever they need to be.
Seanan McGuire
Me
Woman
People
I Am
Will
Important
Whatever
Characters
Exactly
Exactly The Same
Had
Allowed
Female
None
Always
Female Characters
Am
Lot
Friends
Same
Traits
Common
While
Us
Who
Many
Ever
Need
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