Top 95 Strong Women Quotes

My mother is one of seven kids, so I have a lot of strong women in my family, and I have supportive, beautiful relationships with all of them.

Kate Winslet is incredible. She’s so lovely and so flexible, and she‘s got three kids, and she’s flying internationally to work. It’s amazing to see strong women doing what they want to do and doing it well.

I was surrounded by strong women so it had never even occurred to me that women were anything other than equal to men.

I grew up in a bustling household of women with my mom, granny, and aunts. Seeing all these strong women taking charge of their lives and living it to the fullest was a great inspiration while growing up.

I love playing strong women, even if they’re nuts.

There have been a lot of strong women who have had a huge influence on my career. I’m working with Imelda Staunton at the moment and she’s definitely one of those women. And I would include Kathy Burke, Alison Steadman, Kylie Minogue and Catherine Tate as well.

I’ve always – from my very first film, ‘Shopping,’ which was Jude Law and Sadie Frost, I mean, I’ve always liked strong women characters in films.

My late mother was very clear to my sister and I that we were to be strong women; that we were to be effective; that we were to be heard.

People ask me all the time, ‘Are you intimidated, working with strong women?’ I’m like, ‘No, I’m thrilled. I’m a strong dude. I’m thrilled to work with someone who knows what the heck they’re doing, and brings a lot of cool, fun stuff to play with.’

Strong women, when respected, make the whole society stronger. One must be careful with such rapid changes, though, and make an effort to preserve, at the same time, the positive traditions of Indian culture.

I think where men are credited for being strong, women are divas. I just think it’s such a cop out.

The women I see are very brave women, very strong women, women that are facing a lot of challenges and yet are up to the challenges and are making a very big effort. So I don’t see why one of them cannot become a president – one day.

I was never a glamour puss whose career was really based on a look or an attitude. I’ve been basically playing the same parts I am at 55 that I was at 35. I get cast as strong women, and that can be a mother or a judge or anything.

Poland is a country of strong women.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

Strong women only marry weak men.

I’ve always played strong women who are doing their own thing.

We don’t think only men can be powerful and strong. Behind the heads of the Mafia, the leaders of culture, there are always very strong women. European culture is a matriarchy, especially in the south. The women have a lot of power.

Little girls need someone to look up to – and little boys need strong women to look up to, as well. I don’t think your heroes should be relegated to someone who’s the same sex or from the same background as you. Little boys should grow up wanting to be like Serena Williams.

I like strong women. Strong women characters have always existed in the movies of directors such as K. Balachander and Mani Ratnam.

I come from really strong women. My mum is really strong, so that’s driven that into me, and my grandma was the strongest woman I’ve known in my life.

Directors approach me for doing ‘strong’ women characters which, as an actor, increases a sense of responsibility to give my 100 per cent and even more for the faith they entrust on me.

The Seventies seemed like this really open time. There were a lot of strong women characters deciding what kind of artists they wanted to be.

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

I think that there’s a tendency for actors who play strong women to have them take on all the worst characteristics of men, to become cold and detached and hardened.

Others have said it before me. If you don’t have a seat at the table, you’re probably on the menu. And so it is important that we have women in the United States Senate – strong women, women who are there to help advance an agenda that is important to women.

There are times where you don’t think you can be one of those strong women. You’re not one of the leaders right? But that doesn’t mean you’re not. And that doesn’t mean you’re not a trailblazer.

There have never been so many women in the music industry, but they’re doing ballads and pop. Where’s the new Joan Jetts and the Wanda Jacksons and the Debbie Harrys, all these strong women? I wanna be the woman that rocks.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life. I’ve spent a life loving women, and studying them as much as I can, or am allowed to.

I love strong women in films that are allowed to play women and not male fantasies.

Women are blessed with energy – a power which is unique. I have been very fortunate to have played strong women and explored their strengths through my films.

I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there’s nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

All the women in ‘Coronation Street‘ and ‘Brookside,’ they are all so funny. A lot of women bore me, but I love the strong women in soaps.

Some fathers raise their daughters to be seen and not heard; they raise their daughters not to speak out. Raise strong women!

It’s hard to keep moving forward, keep working, and keep your head up, but that’s what strong women do. Especially being a mom, I can’t fall apart.

Women have always been strong; women have been capable and able and amazing at life.

When I was a kid, my grandparents were Greek immigrants on my father’s side. My grandfather used to read me Greek myths, in which there are a great many goddesses and stories of strong women. And I was entranced by them. Then I started reading science fiction very young, and I loved it.

We are a total of our sum parts, right? I came from a family of very strong women – black women. And if I go back as far as my great grandmothers, there was always that love and the ability to be nurturing. Then I grew up in a household where my father was the one who was more affectionate with me.

Strong women, that’s who I really respect.

I love strong women like Uma Thurman, Meryl Streep, and Charlize Theron.

I grew up with strong women around me. My grandmother came to this country not able to speak the language, on her own with seven kids. And she got through it.

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.’

I’m far more drawn to performances by strong women than I am to men.

I love and really respect strong women. I’m obsessed with Scarlett Johansson and Drew Barrymore and Penelope Cruz. They are just really incredibly strong-willed, intelligent females in the industry.

With the Bond girls, they’ve always been these sexy but quite strong women, and that’s a nice combination to design for.

I love strong women.

I have a feisty side to me and I love playing the strong women.

I would like to sit down with Emily Dickinson, Virginia Woolf, PJ Harvey, and Bjork. That would be a good dinner in my mind. Strong women. I think I would enjoy that.

We’ve always had very strong women in my family.

With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.

Especially for young girls growing up, it would be lovely to see strong women who don’t necessarily need to be sexy or find that interesting. Or have to be the girlfriend or the mother. They can play complex characters that you want to follow and make you believe that you can be strong as well.

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.

People appreciate a confident man. They love a strong man, and when it comes to a woman, I don’t know if people just expect women not to speak up for themselves or be weak or just always be the follow-behind, but I’m proud that I’m in a generation of leaders. I’m proud that I’m surrounded by very strong women.

I prefer to avoid the phrase ‘strong women’ when talking about female characters and the lack thereof or the need therefore, because it’s not about being strong, it’s also about being vulnerable, funny etc.

I like strong women. Physical women.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That’s their problem. It’s not mine.

In Colombia, women are a huge factor for reconciliation. I have seen many strong women advocating for negotiations. I remember when the paramilitary were active, there were women close to the paramilitary asking for negotiations.

I just have that cop gene going on. I like strong women. I think a lot of women relate to strong characters, and a cop is still a strong character.

I think that we’re in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians. I imagine there’s just a lot of opportunity for women to have powerful roles. Or it’s just that there’s more women writing TV. Women tend to maybe write strong women.

I’ve been lucky to play strong women who are trying their hardest to do good.

I am the product of two very strong women, my mum and my grandma, who prioritized education.

Strong women together create a special vibe and special power, we are told; thus the ongoing existence of all-female schools and clubs at a time when any remaining all-male organizations are in the crosshairs.

There are some men who are frightened by strong women and some men who are nurtured by them and feel nervous, with weak clinging vines. And I am very much of the latter category.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

I seem to be getting a lot of things pushed my way that are strong women. It’s like people see Hackers and they send me offers to play tough women with guns, the kind who wear no bra and a little tank top. I’d like to play strong women who are also very feminine.

If there’s a common denominator in all of the parts I’ve played, they are all strong women in tough situations.

My gender has never been an issue or a limitation. I was fortunate enough to be surrounded by strong women growing up, and with them as my role models, I was never limited by the traditional roles women find themselves in.

I’ve played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I’ve sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.

Olga E. Kagan was the strongest woman I knew – and probably the reason I’ve spent my life with other strong women.

There are such strong women in my life that there’s no chance of me getting too big for my boots.

I like to think that I represent myself as a strong woman, so to work with other strong women I find very inspiring.

I know, as an overachiever straight-A student in school, I always responded to smart, strong, women represented on screen.

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too – liberated and provocative.

Because sorry to say, women run the house. They run the family. They hold things up. I mean, it’s like you don’t ever see your mom get sick because she handles everything. And it’s kind of amazing I think to show people just how strong women are.

I like strong, strong women who don’t go down without a fight. I like iconic roles. They don’t come around very often, so I have to wait for them. Obviously I’m not the typical blonde who stands by the side, while the man has all the fun.

We’re proud of how we’ve stuck together, stood our ground, surrounded ourselves with strong women and are now using our voices more than ever.

I think my mom is kind of this way, too. We’re just such strong women. My mom’s been through so much, so I think that’s where I got it from.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it’s like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

My mom. My grandma, my grandfather. We have a very strong, strong line of amazing people in the family. Very strong women.

My mother was an extremely strong Pueblo woman. My grandmother was the same. I had strong women in my life. My aunties who were there for me every step of the way.

In community work, you reach some people, but in writing, I can reach many more people, not only in exploring issues of domestic violence, but also by showing the importance of strong women in communities.

It’s interesting when people say, ‘You always play strong women,’ because as far as I’m concerned, women are strong. I think that’s what women are. We have got that vulnerability, but we have got that strength. We are survivors.

It’s frustrating we still don’t see more movies featuring strong women.

Many men admire strong women, but they don’t love them.

I’m used to very strong women because my mother was particularly strong, and my father was away all the time. My mother was a big part of bringing up three boys, so I was fully versed in the strength of a powerful woman, and accepted that as the status quo.

I’m really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

I’ve been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.

I’ve always been drawn to strong women in every genre, people who push the boundaries because they’re just epic.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don’t mess with us – don’t take us for granted!

I definitely come from a line of strong women. It’s not only like my mother and my grandmother, but my aunties too.

Apparently, I hear from people I always play strong women. I don’t see them that way.

We will all agree that the role of a home-maker is not an easy one, and seeing all these ladies do it with such finesse is really inspirational! All of these strong women have inspired me a lot to get into the character as ‘Anupamaa’ truly resonates with their lives.

I’m used to having strong women around me. My mother was. My wife is. I like their strong mentality.

I have always received roles of strong women from the beginning.