Kathryn Lasky Quotes

I think as women we've always been very used to growing up reading and identifying with male protagonists, especially in fantasy. There's a saying in publishing that girls will read about boys, but boys will only read about boys, and it's important to give women strong heroines.

I love stories about women, and I think stories about women are generally pretty underrepresented.

I never had a single female professor throughout my whole education, from the beginning of university to the end. Even all the books were about men; I never really liked reading books about the history of science, and I never really understood why.

I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.

There are very very few narratives in mainstream that are actually about the woman.

I have been the only female minister in every government department I've worked in.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

An improv team would have eight guys and one woman; that was still pretty standard. If you were a woman improviser, it was actually kind of an advantage because, if you were halfway decent, you'd get a lot more stage time.

I'd love to work on a real girl piece with some fabulous actresses. I feel like I've worked with so many men.

I think there are many more stories still to be told about women.

There aren't good roles for women: the female parts aren't developed: the women are serving the men.

I kind of feel like every time I do a film, it is me and an entire male ensemble cast.

Women remain dramatically under-represented as characters in film when compared to their representation in the U.S. population.

There's something really unique about 'Orphan Black' is that it has a lot of female leads, so it's about a lot of women's stories, but it's not women's stories in terms of trying to find a guy or keep a guy; it's about entirely other things.

With 'Holes' I was troubled that there weren't very many female characters. I tried to put them in where I could. But the setting didn't lend itself to girls.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

If you read all your history books, there are no women in them.

Usually, if there is a woman's part in a piece, there's only one, so you've got no other actresses to work with.

Women are half the population of the world, and yet there are so few female characters on-screen.

I guess the more women are present and out there in life, the more their stories will be told. I don't know. Their stories have always been told on Lifetime.

When only one or two percent of filmmakers are female, you can't help but have some kind of bias.

Sometimes, when you are one of only a couple of girls in an engineering class, you feel like you are representing women in general. That is a large burden to bear.

As far as I was concerned, it was the absence of women in the poetic tradition which allowed women in the poems to be simplified. The voice of a woman poet would, I was sure, have precluded such distortion. It did not exist.

People expect to just hear something raunchy from a female - we're missing meaningful messages as women. We don't have enough stories.

I'd like to be able to get more girls to play guitar. I think with a girl playing electric guitar, sometimes it's seen a bit like a guy doing ballet. All the people I learned guitar from have been guys. There are some great female players, like Bonnie Raitt and Jennifer Batten, but very few.