Elizabeth Meriwether Quotes

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.

Women are really complex and totally enigmatic. Humans are really complex, but in film, we've only ever seen that with men. We've seen antiheroes time and again with male characters.

Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress.

Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read 'GQ,' enjoy 'Fight Club,' and subscribe to 'Thrillist,' while the idea of a guy doing the same with 'Glamour,' '27 Dresses' and 'Daily Candy' is nearly unheard of?

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

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.

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

Female-driven shows have to be every single thing and are constantly criticized in a way that male-driven shows are not.

So many fantastic male characters are brooding, angry, and not nice; that doesn't happen as much with women.

I was used to being the only woman in everything... I didn't even think about it. Men were my role models - there's nothing wrong with that.

I just think that people are complicated, both men and women. It happens that I write more about women.

People put stock in someone being in a 'girl group,' but we don't say that a band is a 'man group.'

What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

People think anything done from a woman's perspective is only going to appeal to women.

Housework is the only activity at which men are allowed to be consistently inept because they are thought to be so competent at everything else.

Black men don't like to be called 'boys,' but women accept being called 'girls.'

If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.

In a lot of TV shows out there, the women are the weak ones, and the men are the strong ones.

Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work... a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

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

I like writing about women, weak and strong, pathetic and heroic. I like writing about men, ditto. And all the variants of men and women, beasts and demons.

You come across words all the time that are everyday sexism. I was described as 'competently bossy' and 'bossily competent' by a male journalist, and I thought, 'Gosh, 'bossy' is never used of a man.'

'Little Women' has interesting gender connotations. There are generations of women who love the book. But there are a lot of men who think it's sentimental, gooey stuff.

I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.