Evan Rachel Wood Quotes

I tend to like strong female characters. It just interests me dramatically. A strong male character isn't interesting because it has been done and it's so cliched. A weak male character is interesting: somebody else hasn't done it a hundred times. A strong female character is still interesting to me because it hasn't been done all that much, finding the balance of femininity and strength. [From a 1986 Fangoria interview]

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

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.

We must keep both our femininity and our strength.

A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

I think women are strong, and they have never been weak.

You can be feminine and strong, at the same time. You can be a bad-ass and, at the same time, have a vulnerableness when you're hysterically crying, like most of us girls.

So much research has been done showing that the woman is the most vulnerable but also the biggest strength leading to economic progress.

Not even girls want to be girls so long as our feminine archetype lacks force, strength, and power.

I've always said that I felt women are more heroic.

You can still be strong and be feminine.

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.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

It's interesting to play a female character who's not ever using feminine wiles to get things done.

Writers write these male stereotypes, and it makes it ten times more interesting if a woman says the lines.

We need to understand that femininity is not weakness. And our society, for some reason, equates the two.

I'm very sensitive about the fact that there's not a lot of good work for women in cinema that also deals with strong characters. But 'strong character' doesn't mean 'masculine character' - but something that finds the strength in femininity and the beauty in femininity. And something that says you can find femininity in men in some way.

It could be partly my taste. It's just my belief that there are female characters that will benefit from not being vulnerable.

I think that there are a lot of male writers and directors in Hollywood, and a lot of the female characters you do see are really one-dimensional, but I think that's changing more and more as there are more women taking control in Hollywood.

Women are as precious as they are stronger than any man that I have met.

There's nothing wrong with the feminine, there's nothing wrong with being vulnerable.

All women should become Hercules!

I don't know why I am not offered woman-oriented films. Films like 'Satrangee Re' went house-full at some centres, but I didn't have much to do in the film. Everyone came up to me and said that I looked pretty but nothing beyond that.

I'd like to do some female roles again.

I'm a girl: that means I fight like a girl. And there ain't nothing meaner.