Carolyn See Quotes

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

I am interested in stories that concern women.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

I have the same interests as women. Well, apart from football and music, obviously. I've always had as many female friends as male ones. The novels I read as a young man were all by women writers, and when I started writing, I wanted to set my books inside the home.

In the era of Venus Williams, girliness and goo isn't the way to every woman's heart. Yet publishers presume that women only buy a book that looks soft and that appears to be all about women, even if it isn't. Yet women, unlike men, buy books by and about both sexes.

I'm a woman, and I'm interested in writing stories from a female perspective.

I am interested in writing how women really feel, how they really think, and how they respond to men. I don't want men reading my books because they might find out too much.

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 goal when I make my show is to make a show for women. I don't make a show for men.

It seems to me that 'women's writing' by nature would not seek equivalence in the male world. It would be a writing that sought to express a distinction, not deny it.

To come to a concert and hear a lot of songs from a female perspective should not make men say, 'Oh well, that's for women'.

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

I'm really excited that 'The Other Woman' did so well at the box office, and I hope that will keep encouraging people to make movies about women, starring women, about female friendships. More. Please.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

Some very plausible stuff is being written by women in a way that most men are not doing.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

I only want to write books and movies about women.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

There are more and more women writing. And there are more and more good male writers who are writing and who learned and decided it's worth writing for women.

Some of my favorite auditions have been with female directors.

When you write as a woman, there's this feeling there's going to be a softness.

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

As an actress, to get to work on a project where the main focus is the female voice is rare!

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.