Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

We talked about Tootsie, the idea in Tootsie is that a man becomes a better man for having been a woman.

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.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.'

The roles for women on television have historically always been stronger and that, I would say, is still true. The question is commerce. That's probably where there's a block for a lot of people, the commerce behind it. Where is the audience? And it's so clear to me that there is a huge audience for female-driven projects. People still seem to think it's a fluke when it happens. That's one of the hurdles that's still left to be jumped over.

People will say to me, ‘You’ve played so many strong women,’ and I’ll say, ‘Have you ever said to a man, “You’ve played so many strong men?”’ No! Because the expectation is [men] are varied. Why can’t we have that expectation about women?

Any woman who wishes to smash into the world of men isn't very feminine.

This is a feminist bookstore. There is no humor section.

I think that there's a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Being in construction my whole life - I was trained as an architect - I always had to work with guys. And I always did my homework and then challenged them to figure it out faster than me. They don't want to be shown up by a woman.

But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You're looking at a guy who sat down with Margaret Thatcher across the table and talked about serious issues.

There's nothing masculine about being competitive. There's nothing masculine about trying to be the best at everything you do, nor is there anything wrong with it. I don't know why a female athlete has to defend her femininity just because she chooses to play sports.

Well what do you do with a character like Christine Cagney and you tell her she can't have things?

This is still a man's profession, with a lot of men who intellectually and emotionally have not accepted that the military could be women's work.

There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl character's just kind of pathetic. It's not going to do me any favours just being 'the girl' in a cool movie.

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

As a woman, I find it very embarrassing to be in a meeting and realize I'm the only one in the room with balls.

Women don't want to hear what you think. Women want to hear what they think - in a deeper voice.

I want people to be sensitive about how women feel and think.

I sometimes get asked: 'How come the men in your stories don't have such strong characters?' And I'm like: 'I don't care.' I just want to find out about all the different lives a woman can live. But my feminism has never been against men. It's not erasure; it's just they're not the focus. In real life, they're quite nice.

I don't know why women feel an affinity with me.

There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

People ask me why I write strong women, and I say, 'Well, I don't like stupid ones.' Who would want to read about weak and whiny women? Are they people who assume women are weak and whiny? If so, why do they think that?

I'm so bored of reading scripts with these wonderfully complex male roles, yet the woman character just sits on the bed waiting for him to come home.

As a woman, I'd be uneasy about being given the power to determine what is insulting to women in general.