Maika Monroe Quotes

I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

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.

I see the portrayal of any believable female character as feminist.

We came from an era when women normally did not rock.

I started to think of Grace of Monaco as a metaphor for women in general.

There's nothing worse than having a very strong female character and then suddenly having it go away.

Strong female leads are important.

I've been lucky to play strong women who are trying their hardest to do good.

I'm always surprised when people talk about strong female characters because I feel like we all are.

I've been rewritten on past projects and thought, 'That's not what she was - she was this really powerful woman, and there's nothing wrong with that.' I'm going to keep writing them, and hopefully people will start making them.

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a man.

I feel it's so rare that young females are portrayed as being anything more than a stereotype.

I'm a woman, so I'm going to be woman as much as I can.

I want to be in the small percentage of women who don't settle for conventional roles.

Unfortunately, as obsessed as I am with all of those Grimm's slash Disney princesses, I do think women have evolved socially in so many ways.

Women have seen that they have locked themselves up with feminist writing.

I don't think it's not feminist to use every tool you have to succeed, and part of that is being a woman - presenting yourself in a certain way.

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.

I'm drawn to female characters; not all of them are strong characters.

People want to put women in one box, and I'm interested in how women can be everything at once.

I don't write women who are weak or simpering.

Women are never the protagonists; we're always reactionary against everything that's done to us. I like people who write for women that have got a bit more about them.

I would love to see women be able to be powerful, complex, smart, opinionated and taken seriously, even if they are beautiful. Even more, I would love to see women held to different standards, other than the superficial ones that we're held to.

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.

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which has been built up around her; she must reverence that woman in her which struggles for expression.