Louise de Koven Bowen Quotes

What's so great about playing a female lead, especially in law enforcement, is that these women do exist, and they're really quite interesting. They're fascinating.

We need women on the police force and we will have them there some day.

As late as the 1980s, female officers were issued with uniform and kit which included a handbag, complete with a smaller truncheon to fit inside, and it wasn't until 1995 that our first female chief constable was appointed.

Every casting director I've met is a woman.

In my public service, I treasure my friendship with law enforcement officers. I admire what they do and support them in every aspect of their job. I have always looked upon law enforcement officers as my friends.

I had a great time on The Shield. From working on it I have a totally different view of law enforcement.

I trust them …. You very seldom have any corruption problems with women in Mexico We are trying to regain the confidence of the people, and I think it will be easier for women to get closer to the people.

It's a huge change from when I started in the 1960s, but what is really impressive is that the number of ladies on set, the women working on set is a huge percentage. There used to be no women. It was just the leading lady's mother, perhaps the hairdresser and the makeup person.

In 1953, the idea of a single female police recruit to the New York City Police Department, let alone a handful, was big news.

If you are a police dog, where's your badge?

The culture of tech companies cannot change if women aren't in the room.

Most of the people we worked with were men. And the women were secretaries.

After my first book, many of my readers came back to tell me that the female characters I had created were not strong enough. I have consciously rectified that in my next four books. In any case, it's true that women run the world, and men would do better to listen to them!

Learning about crime in great detail forces us to ask ourselves how it happened, how the victims and perpetrators got to that point, how the law works, how the police force functions.

My mum was a child minder, but now she fosters. My dad was in the police force, and now he's a private detective.

What's important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push this boys'-club, locker-room mentality out the door.

I would like to see even more women coming in to all roles, particularly into the specialisms like firearms and public order, I would like to see women being really confident and comfortable in those roles.

I'd always thought leadership was a CEO or president or person in a position of power. And honestly, to me, that meant a man - because that's what I was reading about in history books growing up.

I don't invest in shares in companies that don't have women on their board.

To open avenues to political place and power for all classes of women would cause these humble labors of the family and school to be still more undervalued and shunned.

We must always remember that the police are recruited from the criminal classes.

Only when women wield power in significant numbers will we create a society that genuinely works for all women … that will be a society that works for everyone.

I don't pick up people. This is the work of the police. If there's anybody with a case, it's the police, not me.

The roles for women on television have historically always been stronger and that, I would say, is still true. The question is commerce. That's probably where there's a block for a lot of people, the commerce behind it. Where is the audience? And it's so clear to me that there is a huge audience for female-driven projects. People still seem to think it's a fluke when it happens. That's one of the hurdles that's still left to be jumped over.

I also think it's still easy for us - as women, as writers and as directors and producers - to let it fall into the same patterns. Like, "and then the woman brings in the food, because the woman's the one who makes food." It's easy for that to happen, because that's what we've always known.