Top 1200 Strong Female Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity struggle and transformation.

I've been in the fortunate position of playing these strong, snarky female characters since Dana Gordon on 'Entourage.'

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

Mulan is not a superhero, so her physical action needed to be anchored in a strong female body and bounded by the laws of physics.

We throw at female artists this expectation that their work has to speak to the female experience. And if it doesn't, you're letting the side down. Throwing this stumbling block in the way of female artists is counterintuitive.

I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

The song "This Is Not Surreal," was inspired by a painter I love, Frida Kahlo. She really did suffer for her art. She speaks to me. She was brutally honest in her work. At that time in fine art, you really didn't see many female artists expressing that. She was such a strong female presence, and I really look up to her. She had a lot of physical pain.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

Being a female athlete, sometimes your clothes don't fit right if you have a small waist and broad shoulders, or strong hips. And it's OK to embrace that.

I think the type of actor I am, I tend to play strong leading female characters. The shows I've been on happen to be science fiction genre.

When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

Lynda Carter played Wonder Woman and was one of the first female superheroes. It gives me more of an encouragement that we can be strong and can do whatever a guy can do.

I think having a strong female figure in my mom as an in-house role model was huge and really motivated me to continue to pursue my passion and my dreams.

A culture fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but an obsession about female obedience. Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women’s history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.

I'd like to do something where there's a strong female character and some action. I've done a few stunts in the past.

'The Outpost' is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both 'Game of Thrones' and 'Wonder Woman.'

I grew up listening to such strong female solo artists. I love Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears.

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I am a strong female.

It takes a strong stomach and a thick skin to be a female activist fighting online censorship in Pakistan.

I think the superhero platform gives the female character, you know, a relate-ability for the male audience as well. So, I think that's why people are kinda gravitating towards female super hero characters, and also female characters in general as big parts of the film. So, that's great for us, female actors who want to do roles like that, which is really great.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

I'm not sure why it's taken so long, but I think people are relating to strong female leads.

Both at home and abroad, Ivanka Trump has been a strong and confident advocate for female equality.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

I think female-female relationships interest me so much more because they're so encoded. There is kind of a psychic element that happens within groups of women. Whenever I hang out with my female friends, I feel like context is never needed.

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

The world can be a hard place sometimes... You have to have heart. You have to be strong. Parents want their children to grow up to be strong. Not just any strong, mind you, but loving strong.

Support the female voice in all its forms. Support other female creators and work to make an environment that is inclusive and allows female-led projects to thrive organically.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

I just knew: first-time female on ESPN, there's going to be some backlash, like any change. There's always going to be resistance. There are going to be people that hear a female voice or see a female figure and are completely against it.

A 90-minute time frame is not long enough to tell a good female story, and that's why long-format television has become so great for female storytelling and for female performers and directors and writers.

Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

You really have to have a voice, especially as a female. You've got to be strong-minded and really focus on what your goal is - you can't be all over the place.

My job is healing to me. Charlotte is the woman you want to become. A strong, groundbreaking, independent female in a male-dominated world.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

There are not enough female VCs in an industry so traditionally dominated by males. There are not enough female mentors who are actively engaged with female founders. We need women VCs and entrepreneurs to stand up, get loud, and help guide their peers.

Become strong again in spirit, strong in will, strong in endurance, strong to bear all sacrifices

What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

From a young age, I felt like I was supposed to be the sort of female who is doing something strong.

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

Life is for the strong, to be lived by the strong and if need be, taken by the strong. The weak were put on earth to give the strong pleasure.

I am a big fan of the web comic 'Strong Female Protagonist,' illustrated by Molly Ostertag.

Women are strong, strong, terribly strong. We don't know how strong until we're pushing out our babies.

I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.

If female liberation is to happen, if the reservoir of real female love is to be tapped, this sterile self-deception must be counteracted. The only literary form which could outsell romantic trash on the female market is hard-core pornography.

At the end of the day I have many answers for it. It has to do with my mom, who was an extraordinary woman, and a great feminist. It has to do with the people in my life. It has to do with a lot of different things, but -- I don't know! Because I'm not just writing from the female characters for other people. I have a desire to see them in our culture -- that was not met for most of my childhood. Except occasionally by James Cameron. [From the 2011 San Diego Comic Con, in response to being asked why he writes strong female characters.]

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

People sort of accuse Tolkien of not being good with female characters, and I think that Eowyn actually proves that to be wrong to some degree. Eowyn is actually a strong female character, and she's a surprisingly modern character, considering who Tolkien actually was sort of a stuffy English professor in the 1930s and '40s.

Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the way it is.

The emerging woman ... will be strong-minded, strong-hearted, strong-souled, and strong-bodied...strength and beauty must go together.

The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.

You can't have a strong nation without strong values, and no one is born with strong values. They have to be taught to you in strong families and reinforced in you in strong communities.