Jill Lepore Quotes

It's nice to have a great female composer in the program and add her color.

There are women in every genre having a lot of success. Why not celebrate that?

I like powerful women, and I gravitate to any point in history when a female has significant power. I can spend hours researching any such amazing lady, from Ching Shih to Hatshepsut to Boudica to Zenobia.

I don't feel there are enough women artists out there who are saying anything of tremendous relevance.

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.

Most of my favorite artists are strong females.

The Conservatives don't need more women. They need women like Karren Brady.

I think it's great to be talked about as a woman film-maker. It's part of who I am; it affects me daily. I want it to be part of the conversation. I'm for any scheme or initiative that gives women a way in.

What's happening with feminism in general is I think that, as a woman, you're not limited to being one thing or the other. You can be feminine and sexy and beautiful and hot and funny.

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 just feel like, for whatever reason, female playwrights don't really ask me to do their plays. Nothing would make me happier than finding the sisterhood, but I can't make them.

I'm just really inspired by women and, for me, it's really important to work with someone who can relate to the female experience, especially in music.

I feel like women have so much more to offer: our essence, or flavor, and our part of the story.

I think it's important for people to understand that as a woman, I can only rap about the parts I have.

I feel that I am in a business that is a credit to the womanhood of our race.

It became really important to me if I was going to write 'Hummingbird's Daughter' to try to do honor to women.

It is really a sad state of affairs if I am still the only commercially successful woman director. We need a lot more commercially viable women, not only in direction.

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.

Most people don't know this, but I never wanted Man Repeller to be about me. It was titled that to identify a genre of women.

With us city girls, there is an assumption that we have the space to raise our voice.

I want to develop women-oriented films because, in most of the films, 70 per cent of the focus is on heroes and the rest on the heroine.

I think it's so important for women and girls to feel like they have a voice and to come together and support each other.

Out of 10 projects I get sent, seven or eight are female protagonists, and that's not the only thing I'm interested in.

The podcast revolution has taught us that women's voices aren't just pleasurable to listen to, they are essential.

It's interesting that a lot of female artists want to collaborate with me.