Jennifer Winget Quotes

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

TV has always been a very strong and powerful medium for women.

As a male writer, women are always what men pursue, and their world is always a mystery. So I always tried to present as many views as possible on women's worlds.

I think the media's a little frightened of women.

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

Almost always, when I'm on TV, the producers who call me, who negotiate what we're going to say, is a woman.

I think that's important to women in comedy, that we get a lot of the good lines and you're not just the girlfriend or the sister.

I grew up around a lot of feminine energy.

My strong sense now is that, as women have become more equal in society, so their depictions onscreen have become lamer and lamer and lamer, to the point that it's an embarrassment.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

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

What's so dumb is that women are 50 per cent of the population, and they want to spend money to see movies where they're portrayed as three-dimensional characters.

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

I find women more interesting to watch on a lot of levels, and I like the idea of being involved with something I would watch.

If we don't start representing women properly on screen now, we're never going to change our opinion of them as a society.

I don't want to be regarded as a female pundit. I'm a pundit.

I'm not sure if I should say this, and it might sound arrogant of me, but I think there is a tendency to view female characters as consumer products.

Roles for women need to be better written.

All writers are battling and fighting as to how a woman should be characterised.

I really feel like the proper representation of women, in TV and film, is really important and vital.

I was frustrated in general with the way women are always portrayed. And it's always through a man's eyes.

I'm glad that cinema is catching up to what television has known for a while: That three-dimensional, complex women get an audience engaged as much as the men.

Popular culture is filled with girls.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.