Hilary Swank Quotes

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

I don't know if my films are about women in a kind of frolicking - here's a grab bag of women's issues. They are about women of substance with very particular stories.

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

There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.

If I'm talking about girls and stuff, it's usually the truth. So now, you know, if you hear my songs, you are gonna appreciate it differently because usually, it's the truth.

I came out, as not enough of our stories are told from our perspective. 'Marie Claire' was offering the chance to be a part of a women's magazine, which often celebrates ordinary women doing extraordinary things.

I'm drawn to female stories, of which there aren't that many, and particularly to stories now about older women. The things they have to confront and override is really fascinating. That's a whole untold part of our world.

As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women.

I'm really interested in trying to tell stories about women that don't involve romantic components. That's so much a part of the way we feel about female characters and their needs that it feels like it's built in - but I'd like to find a way that it's not. There are so many more stories than that.

If I go way back to Loretta Lynn, I always cite her as being able to capture what I think is every woman's story... she very openly used her art as an expression of what she was going through in her life. So that authenticity is something I admire.

I really love stories about women.

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.

There's definitely stories I would like to tell; I'd like to see more films focusing on women's lives.

Women bring things to the storytelling of news that is maybe more relatable to the women that are consuming.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She's got such history, and she's, like, the first female superhero.

The coolest part about 'God Made Girls' is you had all these different women writing it, so you had all these different perspectives in this song.

Women need to tell their stories from their experiences, and that may not mean that it would be all stories with women as protagonists.

It's been increasingly hard to make small stories about female friendship, and, definitely, those stories don't have any shot of getting a theatrical release.

I'd like there to be consistently more women's storylines going on at the same time.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

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.

Even 'Posham Pa' is written by a woman so it's a perspective which I empathise with more.

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.