"I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer"
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The “stomach” distinction matters. Bell isn’t talking about bravery as a poster-ready virtue; she’s talking about the bodily cost of living in noir. Veronica moves through danger with a kind of emotional anesthesia that makes the show work. Bell, by contrast, insists on her own permeability. That admission preserves the character’s mythos while keeping the actor relatable - a strategic confession in an era when celebrity is built on parasocial intimacy.
The loaded phrase “20 percent more girl” is doing double duty. On one hand, it’s playful self-description, a wink at the audience about femininity as performance: there are degrees, there’s calibration. On the other, it smuggles in a critique of how “tough” women get framed as less “girl” - as if competence drains softness. Bell claims both: the feisty core and the right to be shaken.
Contextually, this lands as early-2000s pop feminism in miniature: let the heroine be hard, let the actor be soft, and let the conversation about gendered toughness stay slightly messy on purpose.
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Bell, Kristen. (2026, January 17). I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-i-have-the-stomach-veronica-has-i-80965/
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Bell, Kristen. "I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer." FixQuotes. January 17, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-i-have-the-stomach-veronica-has-i-80965/.
MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't think I have the stomach Veronica has. I think I have the determination and the stubbornness and a little bit of the go-get-em. But I think I'm about 20 percent more girl than Veronica is. There's a lot of Veronica that hits home with me, the sort of feisty area. But I think that I have a little bit more girl. I'd scream my head off if I saw a body in the freezer." FixQuotes, 17 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-think-i-have-the-stomach-veronica-has-i-80965/. Accessed 5 Feb. 2026.
