Strong Female Character Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

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

Khandi Alexander

#5. 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

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

Shannon Elizabeth

#7. 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.

Vicky McClure

#8. 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.

Ang Lee

#9. 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

#10. Bargaining with God is pointless. He already has a thousand followers that will do what you bargained to do for free.

Shannon L. Alder

#11. 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

#12. Why read fiction when real life can be just as interesting?

LHandLG

#13. 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

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. It's much easier not to know things sometimes.

Stephen Chbosky

#17. Because the amazing fact is that truth alone will not set you free. Truthfulness will set you free.

Ken Wilber

#18. That's different," Levi smiled at her warmly. "Ypu don't rock that Little Red Riding Hood vibe. You're scary."
Reagan grinned like the Big Bad Wolf.

Rainbow Rowell

#19. When you've played Buffy - who's such a strong female role model - it's really hard for another female character to compare to her.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#20. Honor," I said with a snort. "Honor has no place in survival.

Veronica Roth

#21. 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

#22. His militia escorted her up four painful flights of stairs to a great foyer, apologizing the whole way for not considering how difficult stairs would be for her. What they really meant, of course, was that they felt silly and impatient because her pace was so much slower than theirs.

Kameron Hurley

#23. Art is long. Life is short. A picture can become for us a highway between a particular thing and a universal feeling.

Lawren Harris

#24. Sometimes," he gasped, "the family you choose...is stronger than blood.

Renee Ahdieh

#25. 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

#26. 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

#27. Merripen?" Her voice was strained.
"Yes?"
"You should probably know that if my brother hasn't already managed to kill himself, I plan to shoot him when we find him."
"I'll hand you the pistol.

Lisa Kleypas

#28. Don't let your emotions get the best of you and blind you from the truth.

Seohyun

#29. And I have asked to be
Where no storms come,
Where the green swell is in the havens dumb,
And out of the swing of the sea.

Gerard Manley Hopkins

#30. 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

#31. 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

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

Elizabeth Hand

#33. I'm attracted to films that have strong female characters because there are strong female characters in my life.

Ryan Gosling

#34. When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

Karin Slaughter

#35. 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

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

Amanda Schull