Faye Wattleton Quotes

I think the people who cast films tend to think of me in regard to strong women with integrity and a lot of it has been very good.

My mom was a source of strength. She showed me by example that women, regardless of how difficult life may get, can do it all.

Cubanas are very strong women. So don't mess with us - don't take us for granted!

I was raised by strong women, and that DNA is in my daughter and wife.

When you're single, you're very independent. Very independent women raised me. We didn't have a lot of male figures as the head of our household, so I got, and took on, a lot of that strong spirit from the matriarchs in my family.

I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.

I come from a long line of strong and confident women out of New Orleans. My grandmother and great-grandmother were women who ran their homes and were leaders in their communities. I was never taught that there was anything that I couldn't do, and I believed that.

Women are the real superheroes because they're not just working. They have a life and everything.

People think of Latina women as being fiery and fierce, which is usually true. But I think the quality that so many Latinas possess is strength. I'm very proud to have Latin blood.

There are some people who still feel threatened by strong women. That's their problem. It's not mine.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

I had very supportive parents that made the way for me, even at a time when there were very few women - no women, really; maybe two or three women - and very few, fewer than that, African-American women heading in this direction, so there were very few people to look up to. You just had to have faith.

I've always tried to be conscious of how I represent women in my work. They don't have to be good or strong women, but they have to be complex.

It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.

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.

I grew up among strong women so I know what it's like to be loved and humiliated in a heartbeat.

When I got out of my Twenties I stopped playing women that were victims. I like playing women who are strong and have a piece of mind.

To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.

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

With the strong women I write about, I want to create a sense of strong possibilities.

The older I get, the more impressed I am with women. I have yet to meet a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

There aren't enough good roles for strong women. I wish we had more female writers. Most of the female characters you see in films today are the 'poor heartbroken girl.'

If you read a lot of Chinese literature, there has always been very strong women figures - warriors, swordswomen - who defended honor and loyalty with the men. So, it's not new to our culture - it's always been very much a part of it. It's good that now the Western audience would have a different image of the Chinese women.

To me, women have always been the sturdiest people in my life and have been incredible sources of energy.

I do consider myself to be a smart, tough girl.