Emma Holly Quotes

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation.

Some people thrive on creating chaos and then operating through it, though usually that's presented as a female trait.

I wasn't a sex symbol, I was a sex zombie.

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

We're comfortable with women in certain roles but not comfortable with women expressing anger or fully accepting their power. The most daring question a woman can ask is, 'What do I want?'

Women find men attractive who are aggressive... but later on, they get worried that that aggression, that alpha energy, is going to be turned back against them and their children.

I never expected I would be connected to the Alpha male as some kind of ancillary object, and to this day it mystifies me.

I guess there's a vulnerability in seeing a female character trying to get out of something really drastic.

People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

'The Museum of Innocence' is not about politics; it's a love story, but I think it's political in the sense that it wants to capture how a man suppresses a woman.

The man is meant to be the alpha in the relationship on the money and power front.

A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.

There are two kinds of women, those who want power in the world and those who want power in bed.

Women don't realize how powerful they are.

The relationship between an actor and a director is like a love story between a man and a woman. I'm sure sometimes I'm the woman.

The one test I have for every completed book is if I feel head over heels in love with the hero. If he hasn't stolen my heart from the previous hero, I know the book isn't right.

What bothered me was playing one-dimensional parts in films which were really about, 'Boy Meets Girl,' 'Will Boy Get Girl?'

Most of the roles I've had, usually the story's about how the man affects my character.

Women are real. Our reality covers the whole human megillah, from feeble to fierce, from bad to good, from endangered to dangerous. We don't just deserve power, we have it. And power in this and every other society is not just the capacity to benefit those around us.

I'd say I get heckled quite a lot because I look quite like an easy target. If you're an alpha-male and you think you've got something to prove to your girlfriend, I think I'm the perfect person to prove your worth.

I think we worry way too much about where books should fit inside genres. In a romance, the hero and heroine are on a journey together, and no matter how awful it gets, by the end of the book they'll be in love, with the probability of a happy ending.

We're so used to seeing women in movies about a romance where they don't seem to have any inner fortitude. They're completely defined by their relationships, and it's hard to engage with those characters and relate to them.

I would argue that the uncomfortable feelings she elicits are simply the by-product of watching a woman wanting and taking like a man.

You little fool. Tears are not a woman's only weapon. You've got another one between your legs, and you'd best learn to use it. You'll find men use their swords freely enough. Both kinds of swords.

In civilized society, women have the ultimate power. It's women who say "no," in civilized society. That's what you feminists never have understood.