They're [children] less forgiving. You have to be very conscious of the fact that they're not going to just accept things; they're going to question.…

- Linda Woolverton

I am a feminist, and I didn't think women would accept a throwback heroine.

- Linda Woolverton

The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just go crazy. Then, over the years - it takes ye…

- Linda Woolverton

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

- Linda Woolverton

You can't go down anybody else's [road]. It's your dream; it's your life. You don't have to be told by other people what to make of yourself. You dec…

- Linda Woolverton

For the blockbusters, people were always telling me that if you write female protagonists, the boys won't go, so you have to put the boys' stuff in i…

- Linda Woolverton

Even when I'm writing animation, I think of them as real people. I think of them as completely three-dimensional beings, even if it's a talking teapo…

- Linda Woolverton

I have a children's theater background, so I grew up performing for child audiences; it's sort of my specialty. I know the child audience pretty well…

- Linda Woolverton