Patty Jenkins Quotes

I believe in gender equality and I love that I can represent strong modern-day women.

I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.

The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.

I never wrote just straight women's roles. I liked the strong characters. I don't mean women who have masculine qualities about them, but something that has some intestinal fortitude, some guts to it.

Women play just as hard as guys do. We're just as competitive.

I've been lucky to work consistently on women who I think are interesting, fleshed out, and strong and active participants in their destiny.

One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.

I like to play strong women.

I think that's the kind of women that people are interested in. They're interested in strong women characters who are stronger than the male characters sometimes, in some ways. That's what's interesting and attractive about women.

I've always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they're just epic.

People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.

Men should be able to see themselves in female characters and female strength, just as much as women are able to see themselves in male characters.

I like female characters that are strong in their own right and not because the author said so.

I've always been told that because of 'Main Hoon Na,' a lot of female filmmakers have come up but I maintain that direction is a 'genderless' job.

I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.

As a female athlete, you're always fighting to be on a level playing field with your male counterparts. But I believe the Olympics is great for young girls; they get to be exposed to so many different sports and to these really strong women. It's an opportunity to showcase what we do, which is something that men get the opportunity to do on a pretty regular basis.

I believe strongly that in the eyes of God women and men should be the same and they should be given the same authority in the church, women should as men.

The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.

I believe there is complete equality between men and women.

And I will show of male and female that either is but the equal of the other.

Mary Kom is a woman who stood up alone in a male-dominated field and fought for her rights and what she believed in. Her story is an inspiration for every young person out there.

Only weak men want women to be weak.

Male-female fusion does not create women's rights. It creates a fusion of rights.

The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.