Strong Female Role Model Quotes

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

She's an immensely powerful woman, and I just admire my mother very much.

I grew up with just my mom. She and I were like best friends. She's a very independent woman and I admire that about her. In my life, I've tried to be like that. To be okay with being on my own and being independent.

I have an incredible role model in my mom. She was a single mother raising two kids in New York.

I'm from a single-parent family. My mom is like my mom and dad. She's my world.

I'm one of those guys who believes that you need a strong woman in your life.

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.

For me fortunately, my mother was my backbone. She was an independent and fierce woman, and she made sure I am too. She wanted me to be a brave person.

I was lucky to come along for the ride. [My mother] really is an amazing woman. And the world we lived in in South Africa at the time was a very matriarchal society because so many black men had been removed from the home.

I grew up in a house that was the traditional African-American home that was dominated by a matriarch, and that matriarch was my grandmother. She was tough. She was strong. She was powerful.

Cher's great, she's incredible. She is an enormous, enormous star, who goes anywhere and crowds follow her...and yet she's a disciplined actress and she's down to Earth and cool. I can't say enough good things about her.

Cher is really down-to-earth, very nurturing, incredibly funny and fun, a great storyteller, and creates a great environment on the set.

'Network' was formidable in the sense that I was playing a strong, avant-garde woman.

My mother was a terrific force in my life. Wartime-generation woman, hadn't gone to university but should have done. Was very funny, very verbal, very clever, very witty.

Madea is a cross between my mother and my aunt. She's the type of grandmother that was on every corner when I was growing up.

My grandmother - my inspiration - was a single mom with nine kids, and she helped raise me.

Moana is definitely a Disney character, which is something that I totally love. She's totally bad butt: really awesome. I think she really embodies it because I, as someone who has grown up, been born and raised on the island of Hawaii - so, the Big Island - I love my culture.

I was raised by a great single mother. I grew up in rural Kentucky, and she's just a really compassionate woman.

I grew up in a house full of women. I have two older sisters and my mum who is a very strong woman.

Mummy was absolutely the rock in my life. It was not that I didn't love my father; he was such a quiet man, and she was not. She was the most vivid person I have ever known. She was accomplished and brave and fearless. She used to say to me, 'I want you to be able to talk to anyone about anything.'