Joan D. Vinge Quotes

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

One of the more interesting challenges I face when doing research for my novels is to trace the lives of women who are vital to the narrative and try my best to give them back their voices.

One of the things that's important for anybody adapting source material that is primarily a male buddy picture is to find ways to latch on to strong female characters in the piece and bring them to the forefront and celebrate their point of view alongside the men; otherwise, it becomes a sausage party, and it's a singular point of view.

Women writers specifically... are the ultimate outsiders.

Telling women's stories is really important.

Whatever your opinion on it, 'Sex And The City' was undeniably a show that told stories where the main focus was on women and not on men.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

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

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

I am interested in stories that concern women.

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

I'm still very interested in telling one-of-a-kind women's stories.

Once I started writing novels, I understood how hard it was to write really good short stories.

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

I've tried very hard and I've never found any resemblance between the people I know and the people in my novels.

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.

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've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

What I like to write about is stuff I know. I don't think I could write a novel. I don't think I have it in me to come up with those kinds of characters.

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events.

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.