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

  Strong, Hate, Character

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• 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

  Book, Boys, Thinking

  Fuente: www.teachingbooks.net

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• 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

  Beautiful, Dark, Female

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

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• 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

  Female, Popcorn, Comedy

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• 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

  Hero, Play, Ideas

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• 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

  Writing, Differences, Female

  Fuente: blogs.indiewire.com

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• 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

  Writing, Boys, People

  Fuente: blogs.indiewire.com

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• No me interesa hacer películas sólo con protagonistas femeninas. Me parece ridículo pensar que una mujer directora no puede dirigir a hombres. Eso no tiene sentido para mí.

  Elizabeth Banks

  Pensamiento, Hombres, Directores

  "Elizabeth Banks On Directing, Playing the Hero in 'Love & Mercy' and Concluding 'The Hunger Games'". Entrevista con Melissa Silverstein, blogs.indiewire.com. 24 de septiembre de 2015.

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• ¡No es asunto mío remediar muertes! Lo mío es contar historias. Lyra y las demás heroínas no vinieron con pancartas diciendo: "¡Haz de esta una historia feminista!". Me alegra que la gente disfrute viendo a una protagonista femenina en una gran historia de aventuras, pero no lo hice por motivos políticos.

  Philip Pullman

  Aventura, Gente, Feminista

  Fuente: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Brother, Kids, Female

  "Murder she wrote - and plenty of it: Denise Mina habla de su carrera". Entrevista con Peter Guttridge, www.theguardian.com. 28 th Of July de 2007.

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• 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

  Strong, America, Lists

  Entrevista con Zack Handlen, www.avclub.com. 7 de septiembre de 2010.

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• 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

  Stupid, Intuition, Males

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• Siempre he leído mucho: ficción literaria, ciencia ficción, fantasía, literatura para chicas, histórica, distópica, no ficción, memorias. Incluso he leído westerns. Prefiero las protagonistas femeninas.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Historical, Nonfiction, Female

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