Quotes About Women

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 feel happy to play strong women because, as an audience member, I feel such characters inspire women when they are down.

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.

My mother and I used to watch 'Maude,' and I think she loved 'Maude' because my mother wanted to see strong women out there with a voice.

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

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.

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

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.

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

I have always actually been with and attracted to very strong women, and I think I've learned a lot from them.

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.

Critics often say, 'Oh she makes films about strong women'. Wrong; I make films about complex characters and the choices they make.

People ask why do I write strong women characters, and basically, all the girls I know are strong; the girls I've had are strong. The women in my life are strong.

I've been really fortunate that I've worked with a lot of strong women who are also mothers.

In my family, growing up, the women were always the ones who were powerful, and they exuded this charisma of empowerment that I hold onto and always remember. I had some difficult times, but these strong women were always a constant.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

Women have been writing strong women characters for a long time - hello, Maxine Hong Kingston! - it's just taken mainstream comics a really long while to catch up.

I grew up in a family of strong women and I owe any capacity I have to understand women to my mother and big sister. They taught me to respect women in a way where I've always felt a strong emotional connection to women, which has also helped me in the way I approach my work as an actor.

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.

We can't be empowered women in our career and strong women in our relationships if it weren't for the fact that we're healthy.