Diana Gabaldon Quotes

We don't have enough young, female antiheroes. We don't accept women as antiheroes the way we do the men.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

I don't think women are dumb.

And the first commandment of feminism is: I am woman; thou shalt not tolerate strange gods who assert that women have capabilities or often choose roles that are different from men's.

I think sometimes women who are supposed to be strong are also written as mean and vindictive.

I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

The notion that somehow women are wildly different infuriates me.

Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

When women say that going on publications directed at men is somehow demeaning, I don't think that's true. I think that's one really effective way to change the societal standard women are held to.

I say that Pakistanis should not consider girls as weaklings.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful.

So long as you create laws that define women as victims, as creatures that demand protection, that need bodyguards, you are going to perpetuate the very worst of our sexist past.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it's such a cop out.

I think a lot of women are underestimated.

Women in salsa - women everywhere - we always gotta be defending ourselves.

Women are unfit for parliament and parliament is unfit for them.

I'd been so tired of 'strong female characters' for so long by then. I was so tired of the way female strength was made to look cold and humorless; the way it was characterized as deviant and 'unnatural' and always lonely and exceptional. I was tired of the grim undertone of tragedy that lurked under its surface. 'Strong female characters' were never funny, and they never had any fun, either. More often than not, they were celibate, friendless, and clinically depressed. Their monomaniacal devotion to crime fighting made them lean, cranky, and impatient. Naturally, they had axes to grind: they were avenging brides, poker-faced assassins, gloomy ninjas with commitment issues. Who were these characters? What were they trying to tell us? Why didn't they ever say goodbye before hanging up the phone? And why were they always being reborn or remade as killing machines after losing everything they held dear?

Women belong in the bedroom and the kitchen, in that order.

There's an unfair position that women are sometimes put in, in the context of superhero movies and action movies, where at once they have to be very strong and fierce but also sexy.

Every woman is just a different kind of problem.

I'm personally fed up with people seeing women and girls cast as victims.

Music is a male-dominated field. Women are not always taken as seriously as we should be, so sometimes we have to put our foot down.

When you see the way some people write women, especially in studio movies, it's like, 'Sorry! Sorry for being alive!' Women are so apologetic.