Elisabeth Moss Quotes

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

But, I swear, they're turning Donna into Annie Hall this season. More ties. More suits. But they're also keeping her really motivated, ya know? Like, wanting to be a rock journalist. Wanting to be the first woman president.

Normally, I'm the one fawning over the man, but in 'Call The Midwife,' I'm the experienced woman.

It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

When it comes to the application to life of existing laws and morals, woman, because of her willing receptiveness, her elasticity and adaptability combined with her power of tenacious retention, has exerted an influence, the value of which is too vast to be measured.

I don't think that the feminist movement has done much for the characters of women.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I am like many of the women I have played onscreen.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Strong female leads are important.

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 believe women are the glue of everything.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the magic and delicious power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

I'd like to do some female roles again.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

I am glad that people have become more accepting of female characters.

The women I play don't sit in the corner eating lettuce leaves and talking about what designer shoes they have.

How can feminism be pro-women without being pro-motherhood? There is nothing more unique about being a woman.

As a woman filmmaker in Bosnia, I have more privileges than disadvantages. I feel I can do more than my male colleagues with a motherly approach rather than a male approach.

It was interesting to portray a character that was so far removed from today's world, but was also at the forefront of feminism at that time.

I say I'm a rebel. I'm continually fighting against [sexism]. I don't take parts because they're for the sexy girl. I take the sexy girl parts and try to give them something else and make them a character.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.