Black Quote by Megalyn Echikunwoke

I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to…

— Megalyn Echikunwoke

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…

— Connie Nielsen

I really feel like the proper representation of women, in TV and film, is really important and vital.

— Kylie Bunbury

Something you discover as a writer is that actresses who are successful are incredibly smart. For some reason, there's this myth that if you're…

— Liz W. Garcia

I've noticed a lot of people talking about the wealth of roles for powerful women in television lately. And when I look around the…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

For me, I believe that just seeing women be strong and tough is not answering the question of what a female hero looks like.…

— Brie Larson

In reality, black women, women of color, are powerful, bold, dynamic, and self-assured, so there's no reason their TV counterparts shouldn't be as such.

— Cheo Hodari Coker

There's a stereotype that to be a strong black woman is to be strong about being black.

— Ayana Mathis

I think it's really important that we see women represented properly in TV, and that's a multi-dimensional person: a real human being who's flawed,…

— Kylie Bunbury

I think it's really rare to see women on television who are brilliant, selfish, vain, fallible - and I feel like I have all…

— Kerry Bishe

Personally, I was really drawn to a very strong female character; an intelligent woman who is extremely good at her job, but has trouble…

— Emily Deschanel

It's important to have strong images of women out there, women who aren't afraid of expressing themselves, women who aren't afraid of taking chances,…

— Gina Torres