Female Characters Quotes - Page 4

• James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

  Tracy Pollan

  Character, Males, Female

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• Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

  Iain Banks

  Falling In Love, Character, Males

  Interview with Ken Livingstone, www.newstatesman.com.

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• I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys think alike, but women tend to think about more things at the same time, an overgeneralization, but I find it easier to make my male characters focus than I do my female characters.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Character, Writing, Men

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• I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

  Shannon Elizabeth

  Strong, Character, Play

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

  Sarah Michelle Gellar

  Strong, Character, Female Role Models

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• There's a remarkable amount of sexism on TV. When male characters are flawed, they're interesting, deep and complex. But when female characters are flawed, they're just a mess. It's good to put more flawed but interesting female characters out there because it promotes equality.

  Ellen Pompeo

  Character, Interesting, Males

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• Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.

  Rachael Taylor

  Girl, Strong, Character

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As a writer, as much as I try, I can't stop writing female characters. They have so much more to offer; they have to wear so many different hats. There's so much wonderful gray matter in a female's life that it just makes for a stronger character.

  Tate Taylor

  Writing, Character, Gray Matter

  "'The Help' co-star Octavia Spencer and writer/director Tate Taylor". Interview with Matt Pais, www.latimes.com. August 7, 2011.

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• I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

  Joan D. Vinge

  Strong, Writing, Character

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• There's just a deeper level of sophistication in the writing of female characters on TV.

  Vera Farmiga

  Writing, Character, Female

  "THR Roundtable: Claire Danes, Julianna Margulies, Keri Russell on Explicit Sex Scenes, Crazy Fans and Lactating on George Clooney". Roundtable, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 21, 2014.

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• I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

  J. J. Abrams

  Strong, Writing, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think one of the things that is easy to have happened in a superhero story is that the female character, whether she be a heroine or not, can often be the wart on the man.

  Evangeline Lilly

  Character, Men, Thinking

  "ANT-MAN Set Visit: Evangeline Lilly Talks Ambiguity, Script Changes, and More". Interview with Matt Goldberg, collider.com. June 22, 2015.

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• We were pregnant at the time, and while I was out there I started to realize that if I had a daughter, there would come a day when I would have to apologize to her for my profession. I would have to apologize for the way it treats and speaks to women readers, and the way it treats its female characters.

  Matt Fraction

  Daughter, Book, Character

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• It starts with the writing. We have to think of all these characters - we have to treat them all equally. We have to think of them as having an interior life and having motivations. When I'm drawing female characters, I'm looking for that. I'm looking for subtext. I'm looking for ways to make the reader relate to them in a way that goes beyond the pure aesthetic value. You know, just drawing an attractive woman really gets kind of boring after a while.

  Cliff Chiang

  Motivation, Book, Writing

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• I love Dexter. I love Top Chef. I can't wait for it to come back. I love Friday Night Lights. I think TV is in a great place right now. It's definitely getting better and better. I think there is some of the most complete writing for women and female characters, they're done in television production and not really film production.

  Alyssa Milano

  Friday, Writing, Character

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• I do love that witches havent really been explored that much. Usually, witches are the little side character... a bad female character that comes in and leaves.

  Madchen Amick

  Character, Female, Littles

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• I've tried the female thing. I was in a movie called Dinner for Schmucks a couple of years ago with Steve Carell and I created a female character for that movie. And after a few months of trying her out on the road it just didn't work. I mean, I can think like a terrorist, I can think like a white trash guy, I can even try and think like an African American, but I can't figure out how a woman.

  Jeff Dunham

  Couple, Character, Mean

  TheCelebrityCafe.com interview, thecelebritycafe.com. November 23, 2011.

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• It seems like it has kind of taken off where people are saying 'oh it's a female character' and it just kind of grew. But my intent in saying that was humour. You know, you have to show Link when you create a trailer for a Zelda announcement.

  Eiji Aonuma

  Taken, Character, People

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• The love and support from the Witches of East End fans continues to blow us away and renews our faith that storytelling matters, strong female characters matter, and messages about faith and hope matter. I love this family. I love this story. And to be part of a show that has inspired and touched so many people's hearts is a true blessing.

  Rachel Boston

  Strong, Character, Heart

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• I certainly relate to Ygritte in the fact that she is so strong and also ruthless as well and I feel that especially within Game of Thrones, I think that as a show, it is one of the frontrunners for showing dominant female characters and making sure that men answer to women rather than the other way around.

  Rose Leslie

  Strong, Character, Men

  "Game Of Thrones: Access' Countdown To Season 3 Q&A - Rose Leslie Talks Ygritte". Interview with Jolie Lash, www.accesshollywood.com. March 5, 2013.

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• If you look at most womens writing, women writers will describe women differently from the way male writers describe women. The details that go into a woman writers description of a female character are, perhaps, a little more judgmental. Theyre looking for certain things, because they know what women do to look a certain way.

  Lorrie Moore

  Writing, Character, Males

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• I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend to suspect that in real life, there have always been very strong female characters, but at certain stages of society, they've been asked to cool it.

  William Gibson

  Strong, Real, Book

  Interview with Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. September 7, 2010.

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• You know, you're not aware of it, but you're following the action of the film through the body of the protagonist, you know? You feel what he feels when he jumps, when he leaps, when he wins, when he loses. And I think I just took it for granted that, you know, we can all do that, but it became obvious to me that men don't live through the female characters.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Winning, Men

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• People, you know, had trouble with the character. Mindy is not immediately likeable. She does and says a lot of things that you don't see in, forget female characters, any characters. Like, she says things like, "I'm going to hell because I don't really care about the environment and I love to gossip."

  Mindy Kaling

  Character, People, Gossip

  "Mindy Kaling On Refusing To Be An Outsider And Sexism On Set". "Morning Edition" with Rachel Martin, www.npr.org. October 16, 2014.

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