Lucy Dacus Quotes

Nobody is surprised that women writers accurately represent male characters over and over again, no doubt because everybody knows that women understand men much better than vice-versa.

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

In terms of showing their emotions and acting on them, my women characters are a lot more advanced than the men.

I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings of what it means to be a man.

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

If it's true that men are such beasts, this must account for the fact that most women are animal lovers.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

I realized early on that I always hated girls who used their femininity to get what they wanted.

I have this theory that the likeability question comes up so much more with female characters created by female authors than it does with male characters and male authors.

With a male-centric show, the women are usually very two-dimensional.

Male playwrights, on the whole, are probably more interested in male characters. They need women characters to be the women in their lives or to be the domestic difficulty.

So often, in films, there are two ways a female can be portrayed: either innocent and virginal or the complete opposite.

I think all things are political... How women are portrayed - that's a big thing for me. What is this role trying to say about women? Is this woman weak or victimised, and, if so, do we get to understand why?

If men want sex they'll find it.

Men think about women. Women think about what men think about them.

Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

I never call them 'guys;' I always call them 'boys.' Maybe it's a superiority complex - my needing to keep them down.

Were there no women, men might live like gods.

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

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

When I started the original 'Alien,' Ripley wasn't a woman, it was a guy.

I'm not 'one of the guys.' I don't want to pretend to be one on stage. I'm not going to dress like a guy or carry myself like one.

What a strange thing man is; and what a stranger thing woman.

And verily, a woman need know but one man well, in order to understand all men; whereas a man may know all women and understand not one of them.

With all the weird surroundings of outer space the basic underlying theme of the show is a philosophical approach to man's relationship to woman. There are both sexes in the crew, in fact, the first officer is a woman.