Male Centric Narratives Quotes

When I'm dealing with the 18th century, as I do in 'The Firebird,' the difficulty isn't only finding what a woman did, it's finding her at all. Most of the sources I'm dealing with - letters and memoirs and written reports of the day - have been written by men.

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline is it takes so long for you to work those atrophied muscles - for you to get on parity with what women's representations of men are.

Study men, not historians.

The canon is dominated by books written by men, about men, and for men - the male voice is therefore not a particularly difficult one to impersonate.

I still see storytelling for men by men that is always reinforcing the male gaze.

It's rare to see women in a film who are not somehow validated by a male or discussing a male or heartbroken by a male, or end up being happy because of a male. It's interesting to think about, and it's very true.

The baseline character in a lot of Western literature is a man. So we, as women, do a lot of suspending of our disbelief to experience a novel or a play or a movie through that male character.

Bad women's comedies are made by men who didn't consult enough women.

I think we assume a lot about both genders. But in particular I think we assume that only boys play games and that boys are only interested in playing games that reflect their narratives and their interests.

History is told through the eyes of men about men.