William Gibson Quotes

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

Strong female leads are important.

I don't understand why people still behave as though making movies with female protagonists is risky, given that - hello - we do make up over 50 percent of the population, and we go to movies.

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

Women can always think as much as they like, an' they could get up on a platform an' talk till they bust, as long as they didn't want the world to be made no better, an' they wouldn't be thought unwomanly. It's soon as a woman wants any practical good done that she is considered a unwomanly creature.

It's so rare that you actually get to find a really well-written female lead.

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

But the fact is, I'm not work-identified. I'm not a lawyer or a writer. I'm a mom, and I'm a woman, and that's the kind of people I want to see in books in the starring role.

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.

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

It's only very recently that women have succeeded in entering those professions which, as Muses, they typified for the Greeks.

There aren't a lot of roles written for women who are strong willed.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

It's nice to see more of those meaty female characters emerging because so often in the industry, it's always about the males.

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

One of the things that we've tried to do with the 'Guardians' films is to allow the women to be full characters.

Roles for women need to be better written.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

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 was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

Too much has already been said and written about women's sphere. Leave women, then, to find their sphere.

When I was young, I really identified with Little Women by Louisa May Alcott, particularly the character of Jo. The book was written at a time when there weren't as many options for women and girls as there are now. Jo really struggled with that. She wanted to write, to work, to help her family.

The real joke that history played on American women is not the one that makes people snigger, with cheap Freudian sophistication, at the dead feminists. It is the joke that Freudian thought played on living women, twisting the memory of the feminists into the man-eating phantom of the feminine mystique, shriveling the very wish to be more than just a wife and mother.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.