Top 100 Female Strong Quotes
#1. No matter what you are physically, male or female , strong or weak, sick or healthy , everything is not as important as what you have in the heart . If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior . All those other things are just the glass of the lamp , but you're the light shining inside.
Cassandra Clare
#2. Whatever you are physically ... male or female, strong or weak, ill or healthy
all those things matter less than what your heart contains. If you have the soul of a warrior, you are a warrior. All those other things, they are the glass that contains the lamp, but you are the light inside.
Cassandra Clare
#3. Yin and yang, male and female, strong and weak, rigid and tender, heaven and earth, light and darkness, thunder and lightning, cold and warmth, good and evil ... the interplay of opposite principles constitutes the universe.
Confucius
#4. I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.
Adrianne Palicki
#5. 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.
Tamra Davis
#6. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.
Tavi Gevinson
#7. I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.
Bel Powley
#8. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.
Monroe Ariel
#9. I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.
Nicole Gulla
#10. I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.
Amanda Schull
#11. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.
Nicole Gulla
#12. The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I've seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.
L.J.Smith
#13. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
Joss Whedon
#14. 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.
Anita Briem
#15. I can't seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.
Becky Albertalli
#16. To all those women
strong enough to be heroes; fair enough to be ladies. This song is for you.
Robert Fanney
#17. I am really inspired by strong, badass, female characters. I would start with a revenge film, then ease into stories of badass everyday woman who make a difference in their own life for the better of people and environment around them. Stories of self realization.
Alicia Sixtos
#18. I'm strong. I'm outspoken. I feel like I'm equal to men. I can walk in the woods just as much and as far as a man can. Yet I'm still female. I'm very female.
Andie MacDowell
#19. One of my favourite actresses is Kate Winslet. She plays strong female characters and seems like she has a strong political awareness. I really like Naomi Watts and Juliette Lewis.
Emily Perkins
#20. I had a list of things that science fiction, particularly American science fiction, to me seemed to do with tedious regularity. One was to not have strong female protagonists. One was to envision the future, whatever it was, as America.
William Gibson
#21. I think that Hollywood misconstrues actresses saying, 'Oh I wanna play a strong female character,' like we all want to play, like, superheroes or something.
Bel Powley
#22. I'm a bit of a feminist and I carry a machete! (Laughs) I try to be a strong female. I think it's important. My mum is my idol in life. She's a very strong woman. I think it's important for women to be strong and intelligent and hold their own.
Kaya Scodelario
#23. I'm really connected to people, and my relationships with people are paramount, so I write about relationships, particularly strong female ones. In my family, there were six girls born in five years. We were best friends. And my parents raised all of us as first-class citizens.
Alane Ferguson
#24. I admired so many things about you. Almost everything. But I don't want to wind up like you. I don't want to starve to death, all alone on some island inside my own head. Hopeless.
Jenna Brooks
#25. 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.
J.J. Abrams
#26. 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.
Thuy Trang
#27. I love the action that I'm able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you've got young women following you.
Rachel Nichols
#28. I never really knew that I would be a lifer of strong female characters, but that seems to be the drops I'm being given, and I'm very happy for them. Hopefully, 'Divergent' will be the next thing.
Evan Daugherty
#29. There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'
Gal Gadot
#30. Women who have suffered, no matter how afraid, hold out their hands in aid to help others. To create a loyalty like no other--as strong as an oak, as enduring as a mountain, and as brutal as Time - look no further than a female who has risen from the ashes.
K.F. Breene
#31. The first episodes I actually read for 'Downton,' Sybil was really intimidated and hadn't come into her own. So it's only in Series Two that she's become so headstrong. In general, I find it exciting to play strong, female roles because they're shocking.
Jessica Brown Findlay
#33. 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.
Alaina Huffman
#34. I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
Ryan Gosling
#35. I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.
Elizabeth Hand
#36. What happened tonight won't change a thing."
"You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.
Stephanie Witter
#37. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
Cheryl Rainfield
#38. I find that in the science fiction world, you have almost more women fans than male fans and I think it's because there's been such a shortage of strong female characters.
Katee Sackhoff
#39. The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
Robert Webb
#40. So, why do you write these strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
[Equality Now speech, May 15, 2006]
Joss Whedon
#41. Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.
Terry Pratchett
#42. Buddy, you have no idea what I am capable of. Now, put the rifle down on the ground. Step back and walk away. Then leave this place and do not ever come back. If you do that, I will let you live.
James J. Caterino
#43. You're a lady. It's written all over you, but the West doesn't forgive any woman-unless she's got a man.
Liliana Shelbrook
#44. There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.
Khandi Alexander
#45. I've made movies that are real boy movies - but I've had so much fun over the years working with women and getting good performances with women and with strong female characters.
Michael Lehmann
#46. I shook my head back and forth as though I was a human etch-a-sketch, erasing the memory.
Nicole Gulla
#47. Many of my movies have strong female leads- brave, self-sufficient girls that don't think twice about fighting for what they believe 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.
Hayao Miyazaki
#48. Broken people are the most dangerous...because they just don't give a fuck
Ashley Jade
#49. If you're a strong female, you don't need permission.
Lady Gaga
#50. Some Western demographers have posited, due to the female shortage created by the one-child policy, that China will be forced to field a vast force - as in tens of millions strong - of wifeless men who'll gladly wage wars around the planet to burn off all those unrequited hormones.
Thomas P.M. Barnett
#51. I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.
Shari Sebbens
#52. Military training is a popular choice for both male and female transsexuals because it gives them not only a place to belong but also a strong sense of group affiliation.
Mildred L. Brown
#53. Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.
Helen Mirren
#54. No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.
Lights Poxlietner
#55. Always, it was claimed of her, she was strong and she was capable. You are not loved for being strong and capable if you are a female but if you are a female and you are strong and capable you will make your way without love.
Joyce Carol Oates
#56. I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.
Katy Perry
#57. The female characters in my books tend to be independent, frisky, spunky, witty, emotionally strong, erotically daring, spiritually oriented and intellectually generous; in short, the kind of women I admire in real life.
Tom Robbins
#58. Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men ... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
Rachael Taylor
#59. An angry woman is a bitch. An angry man is strong, whereas, a sad man or a fearful man is a wimp. A sad or fearful woman is frail.
Irene Tomkinson
#60. Ava Elizabeth Baker you make yourself a survivor, not a victim. Become an exception and not a rule.
Nicole Gulla
#61. 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.
Amber Heard
#62. You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.
Ricki-Lee Coulter
#63. Strong female characters - even if they don't necessarily make the same decisions that we might - make such great narrative material, especially when there's an equally strong male character in the mix.
Meg Cabot
#64. I think there are more female characters in videogames now but I also think that's because videogames in general are more diverse now.
Tara Strong
#65. So what if she wasn't a pushover? So what if she had some mettle and didn't wear her heart on her sleeve? She had done everything she had done for the best. For king and country.
Sara Sheridan
#66. I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L.J.Smith
#67. I'm always drawn to strong female leads, so that's what drew me to 'Lost Girl.' I was a 'Buffy' fan and watched it with friends every week. I was also a big fan of 'Alias' when that was on - they both had strong female leads, and that's what draws me in the most.
Anna Silk
#68. But there's also a strong emotional core to counterbalance the experimentalism, with some incredibly moving passages around the narrator's relationship with her (also female) German teacher. It's beautiful.
Deborah Smith
#69. Need someone to rescue?" She interrupted him again, spitting her words out with all the rage, contempt, and anger she had bottled up inside. "I'm not a damsel in distress, and you sir, are no knight in shining double breasted, JC Penny!
Dennis Sharpe
#70. She was stupid and lonely. So desperate to be touched and loved with a good love. I need you, don't leave me, you're all I have... ~Isadore
Lucian Bane
#71. Honestly, I have yet to encounter a really bad working experience. Sets are really my favorite places to be because of the many varied and interesting people you get to meet, interact and collaborate with. And I have always developed strong bonds with female costars. No cattiness yet!
Larisa Oleynik
#72. If Black women stand strong and our commitment is to ending domination I know that I'm supporting Black males, Black children male and female Black elderly because the bottom line is the struggle to end domination in all its forms.
Bell Hooks
#73. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Joseph Fink
#74. I was always this guy who appreciated and loved women and supported them and all those little things that were female-skewed, strong women parts.
Barry Bostwick
#75. 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.
Carrie Underwood
#77. People love pitting strong females against each other.
Madonna Ciccone
#78. But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.
James D. Horton
#79. A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is. So, I'm fascinated by really strong male careers that have inspired me, and also really incredible male roles.
Abbie Cornish
#80. Pity, I knew, was just disrespect wrapped in kindness. I had to address it early, or it would grow unwieldy in time.
Veronica Roth
#81. I need you to tell me you're mine, to swear that you are mine, because, damn you, I need to be yours!
Karen-Anne Stewart
#82. The fact that my female characters have strong personalities but are also physically attractive probably reflects the women I've known in my life.
Sidney Sheldon
#83. My favorite movie is 'The Women' from 1939. It's been my favorite movie since I was like 12 years old. I love the dialogue, really. It's just a lot of really strong female performances. Rosalind Russell kills it, you know.
Anna Kendrick
#84. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?
LHandLG
#85. I have a real passion for playing a role that's a strong female character, that's just not typical, with a lot of heart, not an easy sell of a movie, not real commercial. It doesn't have to be a big movie, but I'm just looking for something that I really, truly, 100 percent believe in and am behind.
Missy Peregrym
#86. Sherlock Holmes gets to be brilliant, solitary, abrasive, Bohemian, whimsical, brave, sad, manipulative, neurotic, vain, untidy, fastidious, artistic, courteous, rude, a polymath genius. Female characters get to be Strong.
Sophia McDougall
#87. I kept my eyes closed until I felt my resolve to be who I wanted to be come back. I couldn't stay this desperate. It wouldn't look good to people watching from the outside.
Natalie Bina
#88. It's nice to do something about something that scares you rather than just run from it and hope that someone saves you. I like seeing strong female characters and somebody who doesn't run away screaming when scared, but confronts the monsters.
Katie Holmes
#90. It often horrified the English community that she spent her time with local farmers and horse traders, eccentrics and mystics, but she valued expertise over convention and had long believed if you were going to make discoveries in the world you must first quit your Englishness and open your eyes.
Sara Sheridan
#91. I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.
Shannon Elizabeth
#92. I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.
Anna Kendrick
#93. I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
Todd Haynes
#94. I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.
Natalie Portman
#95. In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.
Theodore Beale
#96. I think women have such rich emotional lives that they are expressive about. I also think they're funny. I like watching strong female characters, and I like writing them. I don't know if it's conscious that I gravitate towards women, but it's certainly evolved that way.
Darren Star
#97. He stood and stepped up behind her. Why not? It's the truth. I like spending time with you. You're strong, beautiful and brave. What more could a man ask for?
Colleen Coble
#98. This strong female presence was remarkable in the aggressive patriarchy of Mecca and may explain why women were among the first to respond to the message of the Qur'an.
Karen Armstrong
#99. Today is the anniversary of my husband's death," Maria announced. It was a dramatic statement, but the occasion seemed to demand it. "And I am going to leave.
Sara Sheridan
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