Quotes about female-characters

Melissa Thayer -

I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman there is simply woman.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

The representation of women in the society, especially through mass media has been the most delusional act ever done on the grounds of human existence.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is no human.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world. And given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world. Harmony and conflict-solving run in their veins. Whereas men have evolved into more authoritarian creatures.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

I am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Remember, for a society to truly progress we don't need woman or man, we need a fully-fledged human - nothing short of that would do.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Given the same honor and dignity as men, women can build a much better and more harmonious world.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea - it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Women are no sheep.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Any nation that does not learn to place women on the same pedestal of respect and dignity as men, will never in a thousand years attain greatness.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it - you are born to build it.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

The world doesn't need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

For thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown off, and playthings to be abused and toyed with. Now is the time to stop this primitive madness.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it.

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!

Abhijit Naskar - The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality

What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.

Adrienne Kress -

we as authors have been writing about people we aren't for forever. We find a way to empathise, we find a way in. Female characters are no different. All they are are characters. They are people too. Instead of asking yourself, "How do I write this female soldier?" ask yourself, "How do I write this soldier? Where is she from, how was she raised, does she have a sense of humour? Is she big and tall, is she short and petite? How does her size affect her ability to fight? What is her favourite wea

Veronica Roth - Carve the Mark

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.

Abhijit Naskar - Principia Humanitas

I have a little moral trouble with the term “mankind”, as it possesses an innate gender bias, which I cannot approve of, hence, I prefer the term “humanity” over it, and the term “human” over “man”.

Sara Sheridan - On Starlit Seas

He noticed that he felt calmer now she was here, still in that grey dress with her dowdy hat, the air around her redolent with orchid oil. Perhaps all women in England had this effect. Perhaps they all smelled of flowers and exuded a calm and measured purpose. He couldn’t remember.

Veronica Roth - Divergent

You won’t shoot me.""People tend to overestimate my character," I say quietly. "They think that because I’m small, or a girl, or a Stiff, I can’t possibly be cruel. But they’re wrong.

Rhiannon Thomas -

Few female characters get to be “the Chosen One” in science fiction and fantasy. Leia is as much the child of Darth Vader as Luke is, but only Luke gets to use the force, be recruited by his dad and ultimately save the day. We don’t get impossibly clever female sleuths or the sexy spies with the awesome gadgets. And on the rare occasions that we do get those characters, they’re denigrated as unrealistic Mary Sues.

Cristin Harber - Chased

Chocolate cake and a diamond ring? In bed with the man of my dreams?

Cristin Harber - Live Wire

God, woman.” He closed his fist, not bothering to count off the dozens of other things she shouldn’t do. “You give me heartburn.”“No. Those are orgasms I give you, baby.

Cristin Harber - Black Dawn

Holy swoonballs!

Roman Payne -

The day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.

Veronica Roth - Carve the Mark

It's hard to know what's right in this life,' she said. 'We do what we can, but what we really need is mercy. Do you know who taught me that?' A grin. 'You.'"P459

Sara Sheridan - On Starlit Seas

It was as if she was a dream, like London, which he could not entirely grasp and of which he was not worthy. He wanted to be part of it but had forgotten how. It seemed extraordinary and strange that this paragon among women had condescended to travel on his ship. In fact, she’d insisted upon it. Her presence was at once otherworldly and familiar, none of which explained why his brain ceased to function when he was in her company.

Sara Sheridan -

Like most little girls, I found the lure of grown-up accessories astonishing - lipstick, perfume, hats and gloves. When I write female characters in my historical novels, getting these details right is vital.

Darcey Steinke - Sister Golden Hair

Say no! I thought. Say you want yourself all for your own self. Say that you have no specific country, say that you are important without any story from above, say that your home is with me and the other girls up in the sky.

Sara Sheridan - On Starlit Seas

There was something about Maria Graham that you could believe in – a slice of home. If not unique in her travelling, she was at least extraordinary.

Chris Pavesic - The Caelimane Operation

If a fae sorcerer, or sorcerers, are using necromancy to raise the dead they need to be stopped. No matter what happens, we need to bring a reckoning.--Catherine

Donna Thorland - Drith

She's only a girl. What kind of men are you?''Dead ones?' asked Drith, who yanked the door open and put her sword through Narses' throat.

Joss Whedon -

Nowadays I’m really cranky about comics. Because most of them are just really, really poorly written soft-core. And I miss good old storytelling. And you know what else I miss? Super powers. Why is it now that everybody’s like “I can reverse the polarity of your ions!” Like in one big flash everybody’s Doctor Strange. I like the guys that can stick to walls and change into sand and stuff. I don’t understand anything anymore. And all the girls are wearing nothing, and they all look like they have

Joss Whedon -

Whedon: Studios will tell you: A woman cannot headline an action movie. After The Hunger Games they might stop telling you that a little bit. Whatever you think of the movie, it’s done a great service. And after The Avengers, I think it’s changing.Johansson: A lot of the female superhero movies just suck really badly.Whedon: The suck factor is not small.Johansson: They are really not well made, and already you’re fighting against the tide. There are a couple [female-driven action movies] that ha

Joss Whedon -

When people say to me, 'Why are you so good at writing at women?' I say, 'Why isn't everybody?' Obviously there are differences between men and women - that's what makes it all fun. But we're all people. There's a lot of good writers who are very humanist, but still manage to kind of skip fifty-five per cent of the race. And I just don't get that. Not to be able to write an entire gender? To me, the question isn't how do you do it? It's how can you possibly avoid doing it?

James Cameron -

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength.[From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

Cristin Harber - Winters Heat

Whatever you guys call it. Man up. Get your panties out of a wad. Put on your big boy shorts. Grow a set.

Cristin Harber - Savage Secrets

God must think her a badass because he’d handed her this moment, and he didn’t dole out shit she couldn’t handle. That was a fact taught long ago by that miserable bitch called life.

Cristin Harber - Live Wire

What are you? The pregnant MacGyver?” “Best compliment I’ve had in a while.

Cristin Harber - Black Dawn

He walked right to her, his long strides eating the space between them and sucking the oxygen in front of her

Joss Whedon -

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked

Henry James - The American

The truth is that circumstances had done much to cultivate in Mrs. Tristram a marked tendency to irony. Her taste on many points differed from that of her husband, and though she made frequent concessions it must be confessed that her concessions were not always graceful. They were founded upon a vague project she had of some day doing something very positive, something a trifle passionate. What she meant to do she could by no means have told you; but meanwhile, nevertheless, she was buying a go

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