“Each of my novels features a protagonist undertaking a difficult personal journey. On the way, each of these characters - mostly female - discovers something about herself and at the same time makes an impact on other people's lives.” PeopleWayCharacterDifficultNovelJourneyFemaleImpactFeaturesUndertakingsProtagonistsPersonal Journey Author:Juliet Marillier
“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.” WorldFoundEmotionCompanyStupidFemaleInstinctMalesIntuitionPlentyCherishSensibilityPerfumeNeuroticNurturingIntriguingProtagonistsUptightFemale Protagonists Author:Tom Robbins
“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.” AmericaStrongFictionFemaleScience FictionListsTediousProtagonistsRegularityStrong FemaleFemale Protagonists Author:William Gibson
“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.” IfsHardKidsCrimeBrotherFemaleWorriedGenreMumBrothers And SistersProtagonistsMaking A LivingFemale Protagonists Author:Denise Mina
“My protagonists, male and female, are me.” FemaleMalesProtagonists Book:The Irrational Season Source: The Irrational Season
“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.” PeopleReasonStoriesBigsPoliticalEnjoySeeingAdventureFemaleFeministGladRemedyHeroinesProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Philip Pullman
“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.” ThinkingMenDirectorsFemaleDirectRidiculousNot InterestedProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Elizabeth Banks
“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.” PeopleIfsWritingEasyStuffBoysFemaleProtagonistsBlockbusterFemale Protagonists Author:Linda Woolverton
“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.” FeelsWritingI CanDifferencesFemaleScriptsProtagonistsFired UpFemale Protagonists Author:Linda Woolverton
“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.” IfsGivingIdeasPlayFilmInterestRolesAudienceHeroMajorsFemaleFeministActressesEntertainingProtagonistsEyeballsBollywoodFemale Protagonists Author:Bipasha Basu
“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.” ComedyFemaleChicksProtagonistsPopcornFemale Protagonists Author:Emma McLaughlin
“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.” ThinkingKnowsMenFeelsCharacterBodyActionFilmWinningLosesFemaleObviousFollowingGrantedLeapFemale CharactersProtagonists Author:Meryl Streep
“My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.” BeautifulDarkFemaleHealerProtagonistsPromiscuousFemale Protagonists Author:Isabel Allende
“I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.” ThinkingKnowsBookBoysFemaleProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Jacqueline Woodson
“We've all seen lots of stories about a young protagonist having adventures, and usually they're all boys, [and] there is sometimes a token female, or two.” TwoSometimesStoriesYoungBoysAdventureFemaleTokensProtagonists Author:Brian K. Vaughan
“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.” FictionFantasyFemaleHistoricalMemoirSci FiNonfictionDystopianLitChicksProtagonistsFemale Protagonists Author:Sandra Cisneros