While accepting the #SeeHer Award at the 2020 Critics' Choice ceremony, Kristen described what being a woman means to her:
"If I'm being honest, being a woman is not about being brave or being strong or being powerful, it's not about being anything specific, it is just about giving yourself permission to be the things that you already are, which seems very easy, but it is not because women have been conditioned to fit into boxes, usually tiny, pretty, sparkly boxes with bows on them. To me, the idea of womanhood is someone who sheds the perfect little box and owns their complexity, and I've been really lucky to be able to play some really complex women."