Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame. Paul Haggis
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In the case of literature, it is true that many women writers have been stereotyped and often caricatured. However, this is not always the fault of women writers. A writer’s gender can often be a consideration in the success of a work. If a man and a woman both create and write a story, it is more likely that the story will be read and published, even if it does not meet the standards of excellence written by men.

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