Female Narrative Quotes

The simple act of telling a woman's story from a woman's point of view is a revolutionary act: it never has been done before.

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

It's extremely important for women to be writing their own stories and giving them to people to really be emotionally impacted by

Identifying with a character is one of the best parts of seeing a movie, but as women, we've had to train ourselves to experience the male journey.

In lots of ways, I've been trying to tell stories this way since I started writing plays: a female-centered story with queer, Latinx gaze.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

We always tell everyone that women's wrestling has always been told through the lens of a man because it's a male-dominated industry. It's never been told through the lens of a woman and we want to be able to tell that story.

There's not a lot of stories for women told by women in a very real, true voice.

I think what 'Four More Shots' wanted to do from the word go is to create a narrative where women have the agency. None of the characters are perfect. They have their flaws.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view.

I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.

I come from a long line of tellers: mesemondok, old Hungarian women who tell while sitting on wooden chairs with their plastic pocketbooks on their laps, their knees apart, their skirts touching the ground... and cuentistas, old Latina women who stand, robust of breast, hips wide, and cry out the story ranchera style. Both clans storytell in the plain voice of women who have lived blood and babies, bread and bones. For them, story is a medicine which strengthens and arights the individual and the community.

It was really great to be part of the Philip Roth story as a woman in a very complete way.

I think I read Susan Brownmiller's classic book called "Femininity" when I was about 16. So yeah, it's been part of my mindset since a very early age. To me, what's crucial is to tell women's stories but also to tell them in a way that is fearless.

Women are presented with a very narrow aspect of the female narrative. And now we live in a culture and a time where it gets to us very quickly and very young. So how do you maintain in a child that sense of unique identity before they get thrown all that is projected on them?

Long-format television is a better way to tell a female story.

I'm just grateful to finally be telling a story with all females at the lead.

There’s something very important about films about black women and girls being made by black women. It’s a different perspective. It is a reflection as opposed to an interpretation, and I think we get a lot of interpretations about the lives of women that are not coming from women.

As a woman, a lot of stories haven't been told and we've got a lot of catching up to do.

I just think there are certain men who feel like engaging in a story told from a female point of view is somehow a feminizing experience. And that itself is something that they're almost supposed to not want to engage.

You rarely see a musical being told about the life of a black woman.

I had a hard time on TV, the last time on television, so I wasn't sure that I wanted to do that again. But, I really am a big fan of Jenji and I knew this is her next thing, so I read it. And once I read the script, I was really, really impressed that there was a woman who was the centerpiece of her own story, and that she was in the center of her own narrative.

I also like the whole idea of fairy tales and folk tales being a woman's domain, considered a lesser domain at the time they were told.

I think every woman character, every female character, has her own arc.

I am interested in stories that concern women.