Catherine Bell Quotes

My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.

I've played lots of strong women in film, in big Hollywood films, and I've sometimes had a hard time in coming to a consensus of what makes a woman strong.

I love strong female characters.

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

When there is a strong woman character in a story - that always grabs me.

Without Police Woman I wouldn't have had a career. The show started about the same time the women's movement was taking off. Ours was the first prime-time one-hour show featuring a strong, professional woman. It paved the way for other series to follow.

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

I think that Linda Perry is such a beautiful example of strong female representation in the industry.

Because I've got younger sisters, I want to impart on them the possibility of being a strong woman in whatever role I choose.

I have always received roles of strong women from the beginning.

I seem to be very attracted to strong female personalities in acting and music.

I think Mariska Hargitay on 'Law and Order: SVU' is a really good example of a female lead I'd like to emulate. She's really been able to captivate men and women in a way that's appealing, which is a tough line to follow.

As we have more women in power, so the plays and the TV dramas are reflecting what's happening.

I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

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.

Sometimes people are like, 'Do you want to play strong women?' I don't have to play strong women in order to feel like a strong woman myself, but I do feel it's important to play characters that are complex and interesting and believable.

I love strong women, not only in life but in craft.

We've always been ready for female superheroes. Because women want to be them and men want to do them.

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

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

We're making this as entertainment. But God willing, if this show stays on and people see a woman in that office for a while, I think it will help people become more used to it. It's certainly about time that we had a few female presidents.

I think God made a woman to be strong and not to be trampled under the feet of men. I've always felt this way because my mother was a very strong woman, without a husband.

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.