Jennifer Donnelly Quotes

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

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

The women are the strong ones, truly.

I really do love male characters, in some ways, for the fact that they get surprised when they're vulnerable. Women are more surprised by their strength.

The weaker sex, to piety more prone, by rare examples, oft have been renown'd. When many murders were bewail'd by none, an isles whole men in blood by women drown'd.

Living in America and, of course, just being women in general, we've got more strength than we think we do.

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

There is a growing strength in women but it's in the forehead, not the forearm.

Women have always been the strong ones of the world. The men are always seeking from women a little pillow to put their heads down on. They are always longing for the mother who held them as infants.

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.

Speaking very generally, I find that women are spiritually, emotionally, and often physically stronger than men.

I see women as oppressed, but I don't see them as victims; I see them rising all the time. I see them as very strong.

I know that, like every woman of the people, I have more strength than I appear to have.

Women, we are so strong! It took me so long to figure that out, but I realized just how strong a woman is.

Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.

You know I have never met a woman who is not strong. They don't exist.

I think men who can cry are strong men

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 also loved that there [in Into the Forest] was a beautiful balance to it, where they were strong and survivors and doing things in the film that we normally only see men do, but they were still human and vulnerable, and they still broke and had moments of weakness. That's something that we don't often get to see in these films, either.

I do believe that you don't have to act like a man to be strong. You can still be feminine.

I've always loved strong women, which is lucky for me because once you're over about twenty-five there is no other kind. Women blow my mind. The stuff that routinely gets done to them would make most men curl up and die, but women turn to steel and keep on coming. Any man who claims he's not into strong women is fooling himself mindless; he's into strong women who know how to pout prettily and put on baby voices, and who will end up keeping his balls in her makeup bags.

Delicacy in woman is strength.

I think women are scared of feeling powerful and strong and brave sometimes.

Mostly, Texas women are tough in some very fundamental ways. Not unfeminine, nor necessarily unladylike, just tough!

If she [woman] is weak in striking, she is strong in suffering.