Quotes About Narratives

I think a lot of the time in films, men get roles where they create their own destiny and women are just tools, supporters for that.

I seek to widen, narrow narratives of women of color.

I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories

The idea that women journalists bring a different taste in stories or sensibility isnt true.

I think feminism to me is the idea that women are equally important and their stories are equally important and just as entertaining.

I just really have an affinity for women. Watching them go through journeys is more interesting to me than watching men.

I get quite disappointed that we're still telling stories that I think are problematic in terms of what they're saying about women.

I just hope this [Emmy] is now a part of the status quo that women of color are included in the narratives that continue to write lead roles for us.

she'd played mother and wives. Women in narratives were always defined by their relations.

He'd been told that women were sensitive about such things, as if a scar could somehow ruin their beauty, but scars were just stories told in flesh...

Some have said I focus on marginalized communities, but it's not like that was my mission statement. I've just told stories that interest me, and that I'm not seeing enough of, on groups of people and subcultures that are often not seen.

Very good female characters, that's all we want. It's happening, slow and steady, which I love. Hopefully, it gets a little quicker. Fast and steady, how about that? Either way, we want more good females.

They did laugh; they did fall in love. And while they were under incredibly oppressive conditions, they constantly were trying to steal pleasures. When you go back to the slave narratives, and you read books like the 'Bullwhip Days' or 'Incidents in the Life of the Slave Girl,' they will share what life was like, and it's a 365-degree view.

They were kind of like little Stephen King stories... but these go back many hundreds of years.

historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths. I

historians are not often appreciated because their research tends to destroy myths.

Most of us think that history is the past. It's not. History is the stories we tell about the past. That's all it is. Stories. Such a definition might make the enterprise of history seem neutral. Benign.

you have to be careful with the stories you tell. And you have to watch out for the stories that you are told.

The first English settlers of North America knew they were making history. New Englanders in particular were so sure of it that they started writing their own accounts of themselves as soon as they got here.

North Korea aside, most authoritarian governments have already accepted the growth of the Internet culture as inevitable; they have little choice but to find ways to shape it in accord with their own narratives - or risk having their narratives shaped by others.

I'm not interested in anything but emotionally driven stories; that's why almost all of my work is exclusively anchored by women.

We don't need more museums that try to construct the historical narratives of a society, community, team, nation, state, tribe, company, or species. We all know that the ordinary, everyday stories of individuals are riches, more humane, and much more joyful.

Pero nuestros cerebros se parecen a un glotón que continuamente buscara historias para engullirlas. ¡Tenemos que librarnos de esa afición a los cuentos! Y entonces seremos libres. ¡Entonces veremos el mundo tal y como es!