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"I love strong women, not only in life but in craft"

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There is a quiet self-positioning baked into Brad Garrett's line: it flatters strong women while also framing him as the guy enlightened enough to seek them out. Coming from an actor best known for playing variations on the big, blunt, emotionally guarded man, the sentence works like a small corrective to that persona. It's an attempt to signal taste, not just attraction: "in life" implies lived relationships and respect; "in craft" nods to professional admiration and the creative ecosystem he moves through.

The phrasing matters. "Strong women" is a cultural shorthand that can mean anything from boundary-setting to career dominance, but it also has a PR sheen. It reassures audiences that the speaker isn't threatened by female power, a useful posture in an industry that has spent the last decade publicly renegotiating gender dynamics. The line also dodges specifics: he doesn't name qualities (funny, complicated, messy, ambitious), just the safely applauded adjective. That vagueness is strategic; it keeps the statement broadly agreeable.

"In craft" is the tell. It's not just about dating preferences or personal virtue; it's a claim about artistic appetite. Garrett is aligning himself with women who can command a scene, writers who can steer a room, performers who don't exist to be reactive. The subtext: he wants collaborators who elevate the work and, by association, elevate him. The compliment is real, but it's also branding - a way to say, in one clean sentence, that his taste runs toward women with agency both on the page and off it.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Garrett, Brad. (n.d.). I love strong women, not only in life but in craft. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-strong-women-not-only-in-life-but-in-craft-63080/

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Garrett, Brad. "I love strong women, not only in life but in craft." FixQuotes. Accessed February 3, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-strong-women-not-only-in-life-but-in-craft-63080/.

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"I love strong women, not only in life but in craft." FixQuotes, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-love-strong-women-not-only-in-life-but-in-craft-63080/. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.

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Brad Garrett (born April 14, 1960) is a Actor from USA.

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