Quotes About Female Protagonists

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. I grew up under the sticks and stones rule. I didn't put my hands on you so why should you put your hands on me or my family.

Tim Hardaway

#4. The victories of character are instant, and victories for all.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. 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

#6. Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe ... the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

Edith Sitwell

#7. 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

#8. I grew up Spanish, so I grew up watching a lot of novellas.

Julie Gonzalo

#9. And listened for Lula's knock on his door.

Janet Evanovich

#10. I have been a parent since I was 25. That's a large chunk of my adult life. Mother or father, it transforms you completely.

Kate Winslet

#11. My protagonists, male and female, are me.

Madeleine L'Engle

#12. If something or someone doesn't work, it's in a state of grace, progress, and evolution. It will attract love and empathy. If it does work, it has merely completed its job and is probably dead.

Andrew Solomon

#13. Kim Jong Il made his staff call him "dear" and spent the day drinking cognac. It's like I have a twin, ladies and gentlemen.

David Letterman

#14. Great fit and synergism for both companies and excellent outcome for employees, customers and shareholders.

Philippe Kahn

#15. A parent being called to the school because their child had misbehaved was as serious as a parent being called to the police station because their child had robbed a bank.

Martin Lewis Perl

#16. The fact that we often judge the pleasure of an experience by its ending can cause us to make some curious choices.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#17. 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