Tina Fey Quotes

The hallmark of my books is the relationships that define women's lives.

I like to write about women, not so much about the way they relate to men, but about the way they relate to each other.

It's become my lifetime passion as a writer to try to show female friendships in the way that I see them, which is as emotional and connected and deep.

I really, really wanted to write about just female relationships with other females and things.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

I'm always interested in relationships between women. I'm always interested in how women relate to each other, whether it's a family relationship or it's a friend relationship. That's such uncharted territory in cinema.

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.

Every woman must own her story; otherwise we are all part of the silence.

Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.

I think that women definitely have a special bond as friends that is hard to describe to men, and we don't often see that portrayed narratively.

The connections between and among women are the most feared, the most problematic, and the most potentially transforming force on the planet.

I think despite what we've seen on TV, people like seeing women and knowing about women's stories and their struggles and their truth. I think we've seen it in a lot of these shows - when there's a cast of all women, it does very well.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

Being a woman means everything to me.

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

Girls get competitive, as though there's only one spot in the world for everything _ but that's not true. We need to stick together and see there's more to life than pleasing men. It's important not to cut yourself off from female friendships. I think sometimes girls get scared of other girls, but you need each other.

I think it's time that we have a women's show about the West. The concentration has been on the men and the Indians.

All my friends are female, I've edited for a magazine for young girls for 15 years, I relate to women, and I'm very, very close to my younger sister.

Women do love each other; this whole women-against-each other, 'Dynasty' thing... we're not all after each other.

What women have to stand on squarely is not their ability to see the world in the way men see it, but the importance and validity of their seeing it in some other way.

A lot of ink is given over to mythologizing female friendships as curious, fragile relationships that are always intensely fraught. Stop reading writing that encourages this mythology.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

As women, I think it helps that we are complex creatures by nature so just being a woman helps to understand a woman's journey.