Marianne Elliott Quotes

I think all women want to get out of our own little bubble and challenge a man's world. And I love challenges.

It's just cool for a girl to be able to do her own thing. I do a lot of movies, and I'm very lucky, and I'm not complaining. But in movies, alongside big action men, we've always got to take a step back and let the men shine.

I've always known that I'll have a career for the rest of my life because they'll always make movies about men, and men need women in their lives. But, when it comes to telling a woman's story, they're complex, circular, and not genre-driven.

We were the first all-girl band that wrote and played our own stuff. You know, the odds were really against us because rock has traditionally been dominated by men.

Some people would say having a feminist perspective is political, but I don't think it is. I think it's just having a female perspective.

We feel we're setting a trend. Other girl groups watch our style and see how we rap. And there are some male rappers I feel we've overthrown.

Women's particular experiences continue to shape not just their points of view but their actions, in the United States and around the world.

You look at women like Lena Dunham, you look at how women are kind of crafting their own space on the screen. I want to add to that.

People get really scared when women reclaim words, talk about themselves honestly and also make jokes because it's a really unstoppable combination.

Just because we are women doesn't mean the only roles we can play are that of the finger-shaking girlfriend.

I write for women because it's the only way I can use what I've experienced. It's good that people like what I write, but I don't want to go down the feminist path.

I seek to cast an incorruptible gaze on women, especially where they are the accomplices of men.

I've been writing American history for a long time, and I've had a hard time finding strong, interesting female characters. There are women, of course, in American history, but they're hard to write about because they don't leave much of a historical trace, and they're not usually involved in high-profile public events.

When you look at the roles I've done and the roles coming up, they're all strong. I guess I'm more drawn to that than that kind of submissive role females can be categorised as.

We need to feminise history because we are 50 per cent of the population, and our story is just as interesting.

In a world that wants women to whisper, I choose to yell.

I think women can tell the most profound and interesting and fascinating stories.

Half the world is full of women, but it's rare to hear a narrative that doesn't speak of women as the people who have things done to them instead of the people who do things. More often, women are talked about as a man's daughter. A man's wife.

Women's stories have been neglected for so long - unless they were queens. Exploring the history of women is a way of redressing that imbalance.

I know exactly what that's all about being in a male dominated sport. Sometimes it just takes one person to step out, to be a pioneer, a trailblazer, really.

Because there are almost no men in 'Monstress,' we're focused completely on women. It's removed from traditional structures.

There are definitely challenges that come with being the only woman in any room, and on a show like 'The Breakfast Club,' with strong opinions, it can be hard to get the guys to see things from my point of view.

Being a woman is power. Just because we live in a male-dominated world doesn't mean that you're incapable or less than a man.

Rawn did her own thing in her own way. She cast the female gaze on a genre heavy with all-male quest fellowships, trophy females, and the occasional Smurfette. Her world was male-dominated and highly patriarchal, but she populated it with notable numbers of well-drawn female characters.

If you go into the mainstream with a female perspective that seems to resonate with a lot of people, you have a political agenda imposed on you: you are told that you are a feminist.