Top 67 Quotes About Strong Female Characters
#1. Why do you write strong female characters?
Because you're still asking me that question.
Joss Whedon
#2. I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.
Amanda Schull
#3. I find it's bizarre that science fiction is the one branch of television to push the idea of strong female characters. And I only call it bizarre because strong women aren't fiction.
Steven Moffat
#4. I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.
William Gibson
#5. I think it's important that we have strong, female characters in movies now, which can really leave an impression on people - especially young people - and that they're not 'sexy' or 'cool.'
Saoirse Ronan
#6. 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.
Joan D. Vinge
#7. 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
#8. 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
#9. I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
L.J.Smith
#10. 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
#11. 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
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.
Elizabeth Hand
#15. I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.
Ryan Gosling
#16. 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
#17. 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
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. The beauty of 'The Hunger Games' and also 'Game of Thrones,' in fairness, both projects have really complex, three-dimensional, contradictory, strong women ... The writing of female characters is extraordinary and equal to the men.
Natalie Dormer
#21. 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
#22. I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.
Todd Haynes
#23. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. Pity, I knew, was just disrespect wrapped in kindness. I had to address it early, or it would grow unwieldy in time.
Veronica Roth
#30. I couldn't comprehend what we were about to face, but I knew it was my birthright to fight for it.
Nicole Gulla
#31. But sometimes a shattered view is the only way to see truth.
James D. Horton
#32. 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.
Gina Holden
#33. I don't mind being called a "feminist," as I certainly embrace the tenets of feminism, though it does feel a little sad to me that we need to call a novel "feminist" simply because the female characters are interesting and strong.
Laurie Foos
#34. I pride myself on making my own decisions, sir," she said. "I do not welcome gentlemen making them for me.
Sara Sheridan
#35. I think I'd like to do a big movie with a strong female lead, whether or not she would be a superhero. I'm more interested in characters like Scarlett Johansson in 'Lucy.' I'm less interested in people with superpowers because I can't identify with them.
Neil Marshall
#37. In writing, a good guy must never break any of the Ten Commandments. A bad guy must break every one. That's why writing female characters is so much fun. They're not GUYS at all.
Kimberly Black
#38. She resisted the urge to run, only prey ran [and] Niko had no intention on becoming prey
Kayti Nika Raet
#39. I know I'm not to blame for what he did. And I know, too, that I am strong inside
stronger than I ever realized.
Cheryl Rainfield
#40. So, what you're saying is, just because a warrior is a woman doesn't mean they yhave to wear a chain mail bikini? Like, they could wear...real armor?
Jeremy Whitley
#41. If I want to get out of here, I have to be the one to save myself.
Cheryl Rainfield
#42. I'm out of the room in the next instant, like a man wanting breath, after suffocating through the horror of a burrito eating obese man's fart." - Emily Dolt
Nix Banner
#43. I don't believe in the idea of the strong woman; there is simply woman.
Melissa Thayer
#44. The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.
Robert Webb
#45. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.
Monroe Ariel
#46. I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.
Nicole Gulla
#47. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.
Nicole Gulla
#48. I can't seem to shake this perpetual awareness of being Molly.
Becky Albertalli
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. 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
#53. 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
#54. What happened tonight won't change a thing."
"You're mistaken, Lila. Everything started changing the moment we met.
Stephanie Witter
#55. I should know better than anyone
you can't tell who a person is just from his looks.
Cheryl Rainfield
#56. I think like Joss Whedon [Stephen Moffat] often mistakes 'empowered' for 'strong in exactly the way I personally want to sleep with
Joseph Fink
#57. Adora Belle fought back, and to make sure fought back even before she was attacked.
Terry Pratchett
#58. 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
#59. I shook my head back and forth as though I was a human etch-a-sketch, erasing the memory.
Nicole Gulla
#60. Broken people are the most dangerous...because they just don't give a fuck
Ashley Jade
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Ava Elizabeth Baker you make yourself a survivor, not a victim. Become an exception and not a rule.
Nicole Gulla
#64. 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
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
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