Jessie Buckley Quotes

Growing up with three older brothers and being the youngest and the only girl, my mom always made me tough. She's taught me over the years how to be a strong, independent woman, how to carry yourself in a positive way and anything that my brothers can do, I can do.

As an entertainer, I try to do projects that reflect a woman having the ability to stand up for herself.

I love being a female. I love being the boss.

As members of society, we should always be pushing our girls to strive to be the best and to speak up and out about issues we see.

Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

My mother wanted me to understand that as a woman I could do pretty much whatever I wanted to, that I didn't have to use sex or sexuality to define myself.

I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

How wrong it is for a woman to expect the man to build the world she wants, rather than to create it herself.

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

Root for the girls who wear dresses and are intellectually very strong.

I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

I think a big part of feminism - and this is something I'm sure a bunch of women will take my head off for - but a big part of feminism is women allowing other women to just be the kind of women that they are.

I don't know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I'm a girl power. So many girls tell me I'm a girl power, and yes, I am.

I had to unlearn everything, as Maya's character is the essence of 'Allama.' She reflects feminism, an in-depth and powerful role where she feels that she can never lose.

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.

I'm a pragmatist. I think, as a woman, you have to be more careful. You have to be more communal, you have to say yes to more things than men, you have to worry about things that men don't have to worry about. But once we get enough women into leadership, we can break stereotypes down. If you lead, you get to decide.

My idea of feminism is self-determination, and it's very open-ended: every woman has the right to become herself, and do whatever she needs to do.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.

I don't think a woman has to act like a man to show that she has strength.

The best part? Probably being able to portray such a respectable, ethical, intelligent, strong woman. That's still pretty rare in our business, unfortunately.

'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

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