Female Protagonists Quotes:

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

- Helen Mirren

topic: Strong, Hate, Character, Strong Female Characters, Female Protagonists

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

- Jacqueline Woodson

source: Source: www.teachingbooks.net

topic: Book, Boys, Thinking, Female Protagonists

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

- Isabel Allende

source: "The Mystery Of Isabel Allende: Author Explores New Genre". "All Things Considered" with Kelly McEvers, nwpr.org. January 25, 2014.

topic: Beautiful, Dark, Female, Female Protagonists, Promiscuous

We "chicks" have munched our popcorn while romantic comedies became just comedies, and then each female protagonist got recast for Mathew McConaughey or Seth Rogan.

- Emma McLaughlin

topic: Female, Popcorn, Comedy, Female Protagonists

Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major roles in entertaining movies, then the audience, too, will open up to the idea of watching commercial films in which the actresses do more than just play the role of the hero's love interest.

- Bipasha Basu

topic: Hero, Play, Ideas, Protagonists, Female Protagonists

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

- Linda Woolverton

topic: Writing, Differences, Female, Female Protagonists, Fired Up

For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in it to get everybody. I write for people from 8 to 80, and that's not easy.

- Linda Woolverton

topic: Writing, Boys, People, Female Protagonists

I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

- Elizabeth Banks

source: "Elizabeth Banks On Directing, Playing the Hero in ‘Love & Mercy’ and Concluding ‘The Hunger Games’". Interview with Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. September 24, 2015.

topic: Thinking, Men, Directors, Female Protagonists

It's not my business to remedy deaths! It's my business to tell stories. Lyra and the other heroines didn't come with placards saying, "Make this a feminist story!" I'm glad people enjoy seeing a female protagonist in a big adventure story, but I didn't do it for political reasons.

- Philip Pullman

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Adventure, People, Feminist, Protagonists, Female Protagonists

Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.

- Denise Mina

source: "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina on her career". Interview with Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2007.

topic: Brother, Kids, Female, Making A Living, Protagonists

I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.

- William Gibson

topic: Strong, America, Female, Tedious, Female Protagonists

In general, I've found female protagonists more intriguing to work with than males. I cherish women and have always preferred their company, reveling in their perfumes, their contours, their finer-grained sensibilities, lunar intuitions, nurturing instincts and relatively unfettered emotions--although I'm certainly not unaware that there are plenty of neurotic, uptight, stupid women in the world.

- Tom Robbins

topic: Stupid, Intuition, Males, Nurturing, Female Protagonists

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

- Sandra Cisneros

topic: Historical, Female, Fiction, Dystopian, Female Protagonists