Quotes About Narrative

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

At the moment of their emancipation, women have a need to write their own histories.

I really want to help write women back into history.

Three of my novels and a good number of my short stories are told from the point of view of men. I was brought up in a house of women.

Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

Women are the essential part of the theater but the writers are not writing about women. I think they're too perplexed about the whole female situation probably.

War is not women's history.

It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations.

The literature of women's lives is a tradition of escapees, women who have lived to tell the tale.

My films are often characterized by the lack of women present in them, except for this last one [Once Upon a Time in America].

Children drown, beautiful women are mangled in automobile accidents, cruise ships founder, and men die lingering deaths in mines and submarines, but you will find none of this in my accounts.

Truly I never thought of myself as writing legal thrillers, and I still don't think I do. I write stories about women.

I love writing for and about women. In my whole career I have.

Only six percent of films are made by women. And so in that that paradigm, a woman making a film at all is a political statement. A woman speaking her truth creates a feminist film.

I love telling stories; I always have, and I think women need to be more proactive about telling their own stories and sharing their points of view. So that's definitely a goal for me.

There's only one problem with the hero's journey, it never included women.

If you watch a film from beginning to end, with no women in it, it's really difficult.

There are few films where you have women really driving the plot.

I want women to be the subject, not the object.

I'm not interested in being perfect when im older. Im interested in having a narrative. It's the narrative that's really the most beautiful thing about women.

Women are defined by their biography, and men are sacrosanct from their biography.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.

I'm not against women. I'm not against men. I just write about me telling my side of how I would say something.