Gail Simone Quotes

Women's director! Well, I'm very pleased to be considered a master of anything, but remember, for every Jill there was a Jack. People like to pigeonhole you - it's a shortcut, I guess, but once they do, you're stuck with it.

Well, I don't think of myself as a feminist at all. As soon as we start labeling and categorizing ourselves and others, that's going to shut down the world.

No one knows 'men' as such, any more than anyone knows 'women,' and if they do generalise they're probably trying to hide their own ignorance. You might know one 'man,' yes, or even lots of individual 'men'.

Especially with girls, people always want to put them in little brackets.

I really hate having to put 'female' in front of any title, because it puts us in some kind of weird category for handicapped people or something.

If you do an item song, then you're categorized as an item girl; if you focus on acting, you're categorized as an actor.

When it comes to categorizing people, men and women into a group, it gets to be very dangerous.

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

To generalize on women is dangerous. To specialize on them is infinitely worse.

When you write, you are not either sex. But when you're read you are definitely gendered.

When my friends and I would act out movies as kids, we'd play the guys' roles, since they had the most interesting things to do. Decades later, I can hardly believe my sons and daughter are seeing many of the same limited choices in current films.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

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

Once, power was considered a masculine attribute. In fact, power has no sex.

People don't always want to have females as leaders.

Women exist in my imagination. So they are necessarily a type of abstraction. Many women criticise me for this vision, but I explain to them it's to be expected, because I am a man.

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

I am tired of women playing action heroes like men, because they are not men. But sometimes they are written like men.

Chick flick is not a term used to praise a movie. Nobody says 'it's a great chick flick.' It's a way of being derisive. I'm not clear why it's ok to do it.

Both men and women are really vast and boundless and yet in many films we're told that they're not. We're told they can only be one thing - like handsome and charming and that's it. Nothing more.

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what they are, when male characters are just characters.

One of the sad commentaries on the way women are viewed in our society is that we have to fit one category. I have never felt that I had to be in one category.

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?'

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

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