Browsing Topic Best Strong Female Quotes

A woman is like a tea bag; you never know how strong it is until it’s in hot water.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do. Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don’t know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

When I dare to be powerful – to use my strength in the service of my vision, then it becomes less and less important whether I am afraid.

If you’re a strong female, you don’t need permission.

Just don’t give up trying to do what you really want to do.

When you look fear in the face, you are able to say to yourself, ‘I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.’

Women need real moments of solitude and self reflection to balance out how much of ourselves we give away.

Whatever you do, be different – that was the advice my mother gave me, and I can’t think of better advice for an entrepreneur. If you’re different, you will stand out.

It was a great joy for me to develop a strong female character in the spirit of an Icelandic woman. Icelandic women tend to be very strong and very independent, and I think that came in very handy.

I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

My best successes came on the heels of failures.

Whatever you do, be different. If you’re different, you will stand out.

Next time, ask: What’s the worst that will happen? Then push yourself a little further than you dare.

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

I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

Around 2001, I started analyzing lesbians. I started to realize that even really butch-acting or -dressing women still had a strong female identity that I never had.

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.

If you can’t go straight ahead, you go around the corner.

Strong female leads are important.

Working on the right thing is probably more important than working hard.

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.

The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud.

With ‘Hostel II’ I thought I had a very, very strong female audience so I’m going to make a movie that’s going to appeal to them. The guys will love it, they’ll have their moments. But there’ll be a lot more male nudity in this one. I have a lot of sausage in this one!

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

It’s hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it’s not good, but because I don’t want to play certain types of characters. I don’t like to just play the pretty girl.

Many of my movies have strong female leads – brave, self-sufficient girls that don’t think twice about fighting for what they believe in with all their heart. They’ll need a friend, or a supporter, but never a savior. Any woman is just as capable of being a hero as any man.

The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn’t interesting because it has been done and it’s so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn’t done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn’t been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

I don’t try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

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.]

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

There’s a difference between wanting to be respected and being a strong female and being known for being able to do things, but still very much wanting guys to open the door, wanting them to ask us out, still bringing flowers and stuff like that.

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

Equality is not a concept. It’s not something we should be striving for. It’s a necessity. Equality is like gravity, we need it to stand on this earth as men and women, and the misogyny that is in every culture is not a true part of the human condition. It is life out of balance and that imbalance is sucking something out of the soul of every man and woman who’s confronted with it. We need Equality, and we kind of need it now. ‘So why do you write these strong female characters?’ Because you’re still asking that question.