Lori Foster Quotes

I think for a girl to be strong, it doesn't have to involve being physically strong.

Now I feel like whatever I do, no one can hurt me. I cannot be violated, I cannot be humiliated, I cannot be disregarded, I cannot be disrespected.

My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!

I like women who are self-sufficient.

Perhaps what distinguishes my characters is their courage and spirit and a certain stubbornness which enables them to keep going even when facing a setback. I think this developed organically as I wrote, but also it came out of a desire to portray women as powerful and intelligent forces in the world.

You've got to stand up and do your own battles. My daddy taught me that a long time ago, that you fight your own battles. The only way to shut everybody up is to win.

I want a character to wake up one day and feel like, 'I can face it'. That, to me, is happy. I want the characters to rescue themselves, though you use the relationships you have, to make you strong enough to be able to do that.

I'd learned a lot in the Army. I knew that above all things in the world I had to become so big, so strong that people and their hatred could never touch me.

I get really excited every time there's a female character who is really strong because a lot of females in film are really soft.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

A lot of things have been thrown at me in life, and I've got through it all without a rule book, taking it one day at a time.

I wish I were as tough and strong as the women that I'm lucky enough to portray.

The only thing I consciously avoid is playing the victim. I think women are portrayed as the victim in so many things, and I really like women with strength - although I feel now I may have gone overboard by playing so many strong, sassy women.

It just doesn't occur to an American that someone else will solve their problems. Americans take pride in solving problems for themselves. And if we fail, we get back up and try again. It's what we do. It's who we are.

I do not weep at the world I am too busy sharpening my oyster knife.

We deceive ourselves when we fancy that only weakness needs support. Strength needs it far more.

I became good at defending myself, but as far as I was concerned, that was a transient skill.

Everybody is not a victim.

There is no real security except for whatever you build inside yourself.

If children know there is someone standing over them who knows all the answers, they are less inclined to find the answers for themselves.

I don't need a man in my life.

I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

I have a self-defense mind. I've had it all my life.

Don't depend on a guy for your happiness. You have to live your own life and do your own thing. That's when good things come around - when you do your own thing and you're not worried about a man. It will happen in due time.

I am very resourceful, as any woman would be.