Quotes by Women Screenwriters

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

Astrid Lindgren

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.

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

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.

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

Anthony Gilbert (author)

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

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

What's so hard about that first sentence is that you're stuck with it.

I think every woman's entitled to a middle husband she can forget.

Adela Rogers St. Johns

Men will gamble and plot and fight and fall, all for the winning of a trophy. A woman's heart, a piece of land, a kingdom, a lordship, a contract, a ship, an egg -- it hardly matters the which or the what, as soon as it is seen to be desired by one, another will make a prize of it.

Jeanette Winterson

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

There are few more frustrating things in life than being told something that you already know but cannot admit to knowing.

Helen Cresswell

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.

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.

I think if I'm ever asked to recall what Year 12 was all about, I'll remember it as one big cappuccino experience.

Melina Marchetta

The past is a cupboard full of light and all you have to do is find the key that opens the door.

Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.

Holly Goldberg Sloan

The wild geese were passing over - passing over the haunts of man in their remote seeking toward the swamps of the south. They marked the beginning and the end of the period of growth.

Because one morning as the sun was coming up I told myself that I had to swallow up all of the fear and garbage around me, and once it was inside me I had to transform it all into candy. Becuase I know you will be able to love me for it.

One shouldn't allow oneself to be intimidated by something that can be picked up and tucked under one's arm.

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

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

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.

Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.

A question I've thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.

Gabrielle Zevin