Daily Inspiration Quote by Thuy Trang

Thuy Trang is talking about a kind of power that arrives sideways: not through speeches or policy, but through a woman in a star-spangled bodysuit on syndicated TV. Invoking Lynda Carter isn’t trivia; it’s a map of how representation worked before “girlboss” became a marketing category. Carter’s Wonder Woman wasn’t just a character, she was an available image of competence and physical authority at a time when popular culture mostly asked women to be decorative, rescued, or punished for ambition.

The phrasing matters. Trang doesn’t romanticize it as liberation; she calls it “encouragement,” a modest word that reveals the real mechanics of influence. You don’t become fearless because a show tells you to. You get permission. For a young actress of Vietnamese heritage coming up in a Hollywood that routinely flattened Asian women into stereotypes, that permission is political even when it’s framed as personal.

Her line “do whatever a guy can do” lands with the bluntness of the era’s gender logic: equality expressed as access to male-coded roles, strength measured against men as the default unit. That’s not a flaw so much as a snapshot of the 1990s/early-2000s cultural bargain for women in action genres: you could be powerful, but you had to prove you belonged in a space presumed male.

Coming from Trang, who broke ground as an action heroine herself, the quote reads less like fandom and more like lineage: Carter as proof-of-concept, Trang as the next iteration, both negotiating visibility inside an industry that rarely hands it out freely.