Daily Inspiration Quote by Laura Prepon

Prepon’s line lands with the offhand candor of someone naming an old backstage rule: in a group, roles get assigned, and the “tomboy” slot comes with a costume. “So I got to be” is doing a lot of work. It suggests permission and expectation at once, as if masculinity is a team position she’s been drafted into rather than a private truth she’s confessing. The humor is that it’s framed like a perk - I got to - while still hinting at how narrow the options can be for girls who don’t perform softness on cue.

The phrase “a little butch” is carefully dialed. It’s a hedge that acknowledges queer-coded language without fully stepping into an identity claim. That’s classic early-2000s/2010s celebrity talk: intimate enough to feel real, cautious enough to stay legible to mainstream audiences and publicists. She’s signaling comfort with gender nonconformity while keeping the boundary between style, persona, and sexuality slightly blurry.

Context matters, too. Prepon became widely recognizable in roles that already played with swagger and toughness, and celebrity interviews love tidy archetypes (the girl-next-door, the wild one, the tomboy). By embracing the label, she’s reclaiming it, but also exposing how entertainment culture packages women: if you’re not “feminine,” you’re often steered toward “butch” as the only alternative. The line works because it’s breezy on the surface and quietly diagnostic underneath.