The Smurfette Principle/Quotes

""If Transformers really do have no gender, then why isn't there a better ratio of male-to-female voice actors?""

- Breech Loader

"Ronald Fisher: Beer and pussy. That's all I need. Sean Smith: We gotta find ourselves a Smurfette. Ronald Fisher: Smurfette? Sean Smith: Yeah, not some tight-ass Middlesex chick, right? Like this cute little blonde that will get down and dirty with the guys. Like Smurfette does."

- Donnie Darko

"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."

- Final Fantasy Sonic strip #22

""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