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I don't do damsel in distress very well. It's hard for me to play a victim. -- Scarlett Johansson
I just don't want to be the damsel in distress. I'll scream on the balcony, but you've got to let me do a little action here. -- Kirsten Dunst
When I look around the world, I don't see too many damsels in distress. If they're a damsel in distress, they're manipulating some guy to help them. -- Sigourney Weaver
I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel. -- Jennifer Armintrout
I might be the only chick in the group, but that didn't make me the damsel in distress. -- Jeaniene Frost
This isn't a romance. You're not a damsel in distress and I'm not the handsome prince come to save you. -- CJ Roberts
So are you going to be my knight in shining armor or what?' Kent does a little bow. 'You know I can't resist a damsel in distress. -- Lauren Oliver
...as your father, my instinct is to protect you ... Other people will want to protect you too. But remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget the prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself. -- Brad Meltzer
I think that young women and little girls need to see that they don't have to be the damsel in distress. They don't have to not show their strength. They don't have to be whatever the stereotype is or the tropes that we go to in our minds. -- Octavia Spencer
I used to have an eBay addiction. I was really good at selling stuff. My sister needed to get to a funeral in Ireland - the airlines were on strike - so I listed her on eBay: damsel in distress. Guys were outbidding guys to be the hero and help her. A guy who owned a helicopter won. -- James Blunt
Especially in entertainment geared toward young people, the women are much stronger than they used to be. There's not really the damsel in distress anymore. I think the stereotype still possibly lives in different genre pictures but, in entertainment for the younger generation, they're used to women being equal and being strong. I think if you don't portray that, it would be kind of weird. -- Jessica Alba
Guinevere has been done quite a few times, especially as a mature young woman, who either is the damsel in distress or the warrior, strong-willed woman. Chris wanted a variety of things in this Guinevere. He predominately wanted her to be real and natural, and make mistakes and be passionate, and be the feisty young girl, but then also completely naive, innocent and ignorant, at the same time. -- Tamsin Egerton
Every damsel in distress deserves a hero... -- Tracy Anne Warren
I'd never been a good damsel in distress. I was a "hands-on" damsel. -- Jennifer Armintrout
Aunt Syl must have conveniently stopped reading the childhood fairy tales when the knight left the damsel in distress to pursue a better damsel out of my bedtime routine." -- Rachel Higginson
Remember that you are not a damsel in distress, waiting for some prince to rescue you. Forget that prince. With your brain and your resourcefulness, you can rescue yourself. -- Brad Meltzer
What makes you think I'm giving you a ride?" "Because I'm a damsel in distress," she said. "And you are a knight in whatever. A really dirty car. -- Neil Gaiman
When I was a child I liked watching shows about bounty hunters and Canadian Mounties. I liked the 'Lone Ranger,' I liked shows where the guy saved the girl from the villain. I just liked those kinds of things and I wanted to be a guy like that, you know, that would save the damsel in distress. -- Duane Chapman
I have a fetish for damsels in distress. -- SebastiAn
There's damsels in distress out there, and we got all this beer. -- Jimmy Buffett
When coming up with Wonder Woman cover designs, sometimes people will pitch ideas to me, either the writer or the editor. And it's interesting, because I know they're not trying to, but they end up pitching things that end up feeling like damsel-in-distress covers, where the tension comes from her needing to be rescued somehow. And it's something I immediately push back against. -- Cliff Chiang
Too often, women are portrayed in two ways: as prizes to be won by men or as damsels in distress. -- Ann Aguirre
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I don't damsel well. Distress, I can do. Damseling? Not so much. -- James Patterson
I'm a damsel, I'm in distress, I can handle this. Have a nice day! -- Walt Disney Company

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