Quotes by Women Screenwriters

Astrid Lindgren

Jeanne Moreau

Nora Ephron

Amélie Nothomb

Jane Campion

Jeanette Winterson

Joan Didion

It's always a shock to the people who run studios when a movie that is for women is a hit. They have an infinite capacity to be shocked.

When a man of forty falls in love with a girl of twenty, it isn't her youth he is seeking but his own.

You can have one of mine," he says. "i'll yank one out right now." no, that won't count. It has to be the lash that naturally falls out. " He gets on his knees and starts looking for my lash.

You seldom listen to me, and when you do you don't hear, and when you do hear you hear wrong, and even when you hear right you change it so fast that it's never the same.

Marjorie Kellogg

Because answers are inert things that stop inquiry. They make you think you have finished looking. But you are never finished. There are always discoveries that will turn everything you think you know on its head and that will make you ask all over again: Who are we?

And do not be paralyzed. It is better to move than to be unable to move, because you fear loss so much: loss of order, loss of security, loss of predictability.

And what, for instance, would have happened had Romeo and Juliet lived to middle age, their silhouettes broadened by pasta?

People aren't evil and people aren't good. They live how they can one day at a time. They come out of dust they go back to dust, dusty feet, no wings, and whose fault is that?

Caryl Churchill

Look, Daddy. Teacher says, "Every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings."

Frances Goodrich

I think a lot of people dream. And while they are busy dreaming, the really happy people, the really successful people, the really interesting, engaged, powerful people, are busy doing.

But do not look down on even the most minute of things; for with the coming of daybreak, even the tiniest particles of dust in this world sing and dance in the sunlight.

It's definitely best for little children to have a regular life, especially if they can regulate it themselves.

Astrid Lindgren

When I woke up this morning, I found I'd turned into my mother.

The first person I ever cared deeply and sincerely about was - myself.

Louella Parsons

She wonders if this is what people call falling in love, the desire to be with someone for every minute of the rest of her life so strong that sometimes she is frightened of herself.

We all need the waters of the Mercy River. Though they don't run deep, there's usually enough, just enough, for the extravagance of our lives.

It is a wonderful, moving, heart-filling experience to sit with the man or woman you love and your beloved children and know that all are happy to be just where they are with each other and loving one another. This doesn't happen very often.

You don't know what you want. Nobody ever knows until they are too old to get it.

Often, the truly great and valuable lessons we learn in life are learned through pain. That's why they call it "growing pains." It's all about yin and yang. And that's not something you order off column A at your local Chinese restaurant.

Self-pity had always been her sincerest emotion...

Great parts of our economy are directly dependent upon women having a weak self-concept. A multi-billion dollar fashion-cosmetic industry testifies to the validity of this approach. A woman who does not know who she is can be sold anything.

Gabrielle Burton

Every fear, every night terror, every hour I cried for Liev, every fight with Sebastian is registered as a neat white scar.

We all lead more pedestrian lives than we think we do. The boiling of an egg is sometimes more important than the boiling of a love affair in the end.

Lillian Hellman

Nobody ever notices the host at a party, until the drink runs out.

Anthony Gilbert (author)

Not instant, darling. Grind some beans. That's not proper coffee... that's just beans that have been cremated. I want them entire with life force.

Jennifer Saunders