Princess Nokia Quotes

Time's up on cheesy, lesser, boring roles for females in the stories that we try to tell.

I'd just like to see a role for women where someone who isn't traditionally attractive is not portraying the best friend. You know, the character that only speaks in questions. 'Gee, are you gonna go out with him? Do you think I look fat?'

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

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

It's so important for women to create images of women - or any group, at that.

I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.

People were always able to look at Bettie Page and see what they needed her to be and she gave them that permission to do so. So in that way she's a feminist but I don't think she was ever trying to be.

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

What I'm mainly interested in is not having women characters that have to be perfect, obviously. That's something I feel strongly about and have that in every single thing I've ever done.

I don't think the woman in French 'Vogue' was an object. She was always a real woman.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

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.

I'm just glad that there's some diversity in the music industry with women so people know that you can be literally anything and still be able to make it.

One thing that I can say is that I think it's important that there's some sort of celebration of beautiful women that isn't just exploitive.

I just want other women to be able to see themselves in the music.

Why shouldn't there be more epic, brilliant female characters onscreen?

When I talk, it shouldn't just be black girls listening.

I think it's really important for all young girls to see themselves represented in fashion so they don't feel alone in the world.

My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.

I want to play characters that people relate to, characters that make different kinds of women in society feel represented.

It's nice to be in a show where it's not based on taking your shirt off.

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

For me, I want to see diversity in storytelling sources because we live in a very diverse society, and the stories are for the whole society. That's really important. For me, as a female filmmaker, when I was out on the festival circuit on 2006, I felt like such a freaking anomaly - an oddity.

What I think is wonderful is that women are not just avengers or victims in films. They are people. They are characters. It's so refreshing. They're playing different kinds of characters, and they aren't being typecast.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.