AJ Lee Quotes

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

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

When I was in my 20s, I wanted to be tough. I discovered that I didn't want to be the woman I was raised to be - a good, traditional wife. When I went out in the world to find a husband, I found that husbands weren't ready to accept the kind of woman I was going to be.

Being the ideal of a strong woman means utilizing all the things that God gives you. People are always saying to me, 'You're a strong female, so why are you wearing a bikini on the cover of that magazine?' Being a strong woman is misconstrued to be something evil and ugly.

I love strong female characters.

I am not a pretty girl. I don't want to be a pretty girl. No, I want to be more than a pretty girl.

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.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

Women's strong qualities have become despised because of their weakness. The obvious remedy is to create a feminine character with all the strength of Superman plus all the allure of a good and beautiful woman.

Women are responsible for creating their own roles.

Everybody enjoys when a woman is her own character in a movie or otherwise.

I believe it's time that women truly owned their superpowers and used their beauty and strength to change the world around them.

I always wanted to be a femme fatale. Even when I was a young girl, I never really wanted to be a girl. I wanted to be a woman.

I grew up with that completely fictive idea of motherhood, where the mother never strayed from the kitchen. All the women in my books are very afraid that if they do anything with their minds they won't be complete women. I don't think my daughters' generation has that feeling.

In my videos, I always want to be a powerful woman. That's my mission.

Women's behavior in handling beauty, even before feminism, was to deny they had any. Don't hate me because I'm beautiful.

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

I think it is important for girls to see movies where it is not all just about 'the boy' or it's simply being about 'the relationship' or 'Am I pretty enough?' or 'Am I cute enough?'.

I don't think of myself as a powerful woman.

I think being a young woman is a strength.

The character I've created, Christine, is mainly the first attempt for me to escape all the secret injunctions we have as girls all the time. Like, be pretty but be polite. Don't take too much space. All those things that didn't mean anything to me. I just decided to turn them around with my character.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

I'm constantly trying to redefine what being a beauty queen is.

As a female actress, I didn't feel the need to be sexy or beautiful.