"If Transformers really do have no gender, then why isn't there a better ratio of male-to-female voice actors?"
— Breech Loader
Is her position within an ensemble cast “the girl”? As in, you have “geeky guy”, “strong guy”, “goofy guy” and “the girl”? WARNING WARNING WARNING.
— Karen Healey on how to write female characters
Sonic: Mina?! Don't sneak up on me like that again! ...what are you doin' here?
Mina: Silly, to provide a female character.
Mina: Silly, to provide a female character.
— Final Fantasy Sonic strip #22
"My life is failing the Bechdel test."
— Beetle, The Superior Foes of Spider-Man
"Then you’ve got Smurf books. Not actual Smurfs. I mean stories where there are five major characters, and one is brave and one is smart and one is grumpy and one keeps rats for pets and one is a girl. Smurfs, right? Because there was Handy Smurf and Chef Smurf and Dopey Smurf and Painter Smurf and ninety-four other male Smurfs and Smurfette. Smurfette’s unique personality trait was femaleness. That was the thing she did better than anyone else. Be a girl."
— Max Berry, "Dogs and Smurfs"
" "Red is the perfect one, Black is the brooding bad-boy, Green is the clown and Yellow - well, she's the girl."
— Tenaya 7, Power Rangers RPM
"You're not as smart as Stewart. But, you're the only girl in town."
— Taylor, Planet of the Apes (1968)
"We need get away from the idea that sexism in fiction can be tackled by reliance on depiction of a single personality type, that you just need to write one female character per story right and you’ve done enough...Nowadays the princesses all know kung fu, and yet they’re still the same princesses. They're still love interests, still the one girl in a team of five boys, and they’re all kind of the same. They march on screen, punch someone to show how they don’t take no shit, throw around a couple of one-liners or forcibly kiss someone because getting consent is for wimps, and then with ladylike discretion they back out of the narrative’s way."
— Sophia McDougall, "I Hate Strong Female Characters"
""Lastly, there is Zoozie. She is a girl."
"The lone woman among the Igknights who is coddled by her colleagues. Even though her prized weapon take down her allies more often than her enemies, none of them complain about it."
— Igknight Derringer's description, Yu-Gi-Oh! TCG
She wore the rank tattoos of a Token Female Officer in the U.N. Army.
I'm Leia, all up in your face
I'm the only chick in Outer Space
I'm the only chick in Outer Space
— Princess Leia, Star Wars Gangsta Rap: Chronicles
"The real issue with this year’s field of filmmakers is less anything to do with the individual films, and more that, as Awards Daily’s Sasha Stone memorably put it, ‘No one can agree on one, and there can only be one.’ Female representation right now is at a point where a woman can get nominated for Best Director, but only if she’s a clear standout whose work is head and shoulders above that of her male peers. If there are a bunch of women who are just kind of in the mix, like this year, it’s easy for voters to claim that none of them were quite good enough."
— Nate Jones, "Why Didn’t the Oscars Nominate Any Female Directors This Year?", Vulture
", Vulture"It's so thrilling to join the long line of women who've appeared on this show..."
— Sandi Toksvig, on her first appearance on I'm Sorry I Haven't a Cluenote
"Petra Arkanian. The only girl in Salamander Army. With more balls than anybody else in the room."
— Petra, Ender's Game
The Marzipan says, "I'm the only girl."
— Homestar Runner, Who Said What Now?
"Can you count how many girls are on this team? That's right — one!"
"The same as my average test score!"
— Masked Woman, Pokémon Masters
"With your sex appeal, and my smarts, and Berto's strength, and Hanbon's ability to fulfill a gender requirement, there's no one who can stop us!"
"Why is Ridinghood is the only girl around here, anyway? It's almost like the Raskully creators overlooked the whole gender balance thing..."
—Wizard, Raskulls
