Women's Stories 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.

There were all us baby boomers who had a grammar school education, started to learn, then went on the pill, the whole thing, and so there are today a lot more women writers, editors, producers, and so a lot more women's stories. God, the BBC's practically run by women.

Disney has proved without a shadow of a doubt that movies with a female lead work.

I just think of myself as a writer. Yes, I'm a woman. And I'm a writer. The main challenge is that I like to write stories about young women, and society doesn't place much of a premium on young women's stories. And I think that's why I gravitate towards it. I really honor that, and I treasure that time, and they should be given that respect.

I think despite what we've seen on TV, people like seeing women and knowing about women's stories and their struggles and their truth. I think we've seen it in a lot of these shows - when there's a cast of all women, it does very well.

Audiences want to watch heroine-oriented films, and even writers are writing scripts for women. I am very happy to see this change.

Beyonce, Stevie Nicks, Ani DiFranco, Cardi B - Women tell awesome stories.

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

As I continue to write as M. O'Keefe, I find myself following darker story lines. Plots I might have flinched away from I now rush toward. Using sex as a tool to tell women's stories is endlessly fascinating.

I love women. I've always cared about making movies about women my entire career.

I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

I love to read books by women I look up to who are smart, funny, and interesting, like Tina Fey's 'Bossypants' and Mindy Kaling's 'Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me?'

When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.

I love stories about women.

I think Miss Universe is wonderful platform that we promote diversity and women empowerment. Why? Because we are achieved women who have stories, who have passions, who have careers.

One of the things I think I can do in my lifetime is stop to remind myself that - and keep affirming that - women can sell movies.

Women-centric films are being made, and they are doing well.

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

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

As creators and as readers, we need to always be pushing it - by looking for the books, looking for the artists and people and stories to support what we feel to be a better representation of all women. Of real women.

I only ever want to be a part of something that feels good to me, because I'm such a feminist and a believer in the power of women and the stories we have to tell.

I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

Whatever your opinion on it, 'Sex And The City' was undeniably a show that told stories where the main focus was on women and not on men.