Daily Inspiration Quote by Kirsty Gallacher

Gallacher’s line is a neat little snapshot of early-2000s lad culture learning to launder itself through “compliments.” On the surface, it’s breezy confidence: she’s being called a “babe” and choosing to take it as praise, not insult. The phrasing matters. “Labelled” signals she knows it’s reductive, a tag slapped on rather than a full description of a person. Then she hands the power back with a shrug: not offensive, actually flattering. That pivot is the engine of the quote.

The subtext is negotiation. For a woman working in entertainment and sports-adjacent TV, being positioned as eye candy was often the price of admission, and publicly rejecting that framing could invite backlash: humorless, ungrateful, difficult. By embracing the label, she sidesteps the trap and reframes it as her choice, her interpretation, her agency. “By blokes” is doing extra work, too: it localizes the gaze as a kind of blokey inevitability, almost anthropological, softening its edge.

Culturally, it lands in an era when “empowerment” was frequently sold as making peace with objectification, provided you got to call it confidence. It’s not quite capitulation and not quite rebellion; it’s the pragmatic middle lane of celebrity femininity at the time. Gallacher isn’t just talking about being flattered. She’s communicating competence in a media ecosystem that rewards women for being unbothered by the very forces that box them in.