“When I was growing up I loved reading historical fiction, but too often it was about males; or, if it was about females, they were girls who were going to grow up to be famous like Betsy Ross, Clara Barton, or Harriet Tubman. No one ever wrote about plain, normal, everyday girls.” IfsGirlReadingGrowsFictionGrowing UpGrowingNormalFemaleHistoricalMalesEverydayHistorical FictionClaraBetsy Ross Author:Kathryn Lasky
“I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.” IdeasCharacterStrongFictionTelevisionFemaleScience FictionBranchesStrong WomenBizarreFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Steven Moffat
“The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.” SexFictionRolesGoneTakenHeroFemaleCompetitionEndureMalesThemeSurvivorSurviving Author:Warren Farrell
“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
“My generation of young female writers discovered that we could dictate the form and content of our own fiction.” FormYoungFictionGenerationsFemaleMy GenerationFemale Writers Author:Erica Jong
“I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.” ThinkingWorldCharacterStrongFictionFansFemaleScience FictionMalesShortageFemale CharactersStrong Female CharactersStrong Female Author:Katee Sackhoff