Lisa Scottoline Quotes

I want my girls to grow up learning that it is important their mum worked like a man.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

There's a power in women being women. There's a role for men, but we don't have to be men, because we're women. I think that representing that on television is a cool thing.

My mom was sarcastic about men. She would tell me Adam was the rough draft and Eve was the final product. She was a feminist minister, an earth mom who wore a bra only on Sundays.

Strong female leads are important.

It's not often that a strong female role comes across one's desk, unfortunately, but it's getting better.

I am a woman. I definitely have a woman's perspective. I'm also a mother, and I think, because of that, I feel responsible to try and make a difference.

I don't believe in women-centric films, but I certainly believe that we should create films that have more challenging roles for women and I definitely will have that in all my films.

I'm very proud of the fact that the women on 'The Americans' are written to be equally complex as the men.

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.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

My mother was a single mom, and most of the women I know are strong.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

It's frustrating we still don't see more movies featuring strong women.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

There's nothing wrong with looking like a woman and going in the workplace and doing everything a man can do but looking 1,000 percent like a lady.

If I were like your mother, I would be a woman.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

I do not consider myself a feminist. I do not believe that by doing female-oriented films that depict a woman fighting the system, we can change the system.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Females want other females to be really strong, so there are a whole lot of scripts that are basically just male parts renamed as a girl.

I won't take parts where the female character has no substance.