Quotes About Empowerment

We want to be role models.

My role models were Amelia Earhart and Eleanor Roosevelt, and my major crush was J. Edgar Hoover.

Our children need to see and hear about more black role models in many fields so they can make better choices.

Those old '90s models when women were just themselves and they were real and they were embraced that way - I think we should get back to that.

I was lucky to have a bunch of really strong female role models in my family.

Models need to be unionized.

Most people don't feel empowered to make CAD models. The MakerBot Digitizer solves that problem.

I think the rise of Asian models is an absolutely beautiful thing.

I've had some very strong female role models, so I think that's an important thing.

I think it's nice to break down that barrier, that models are seen and not heard.

I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.

Growing up as a South Asian-American, I didn't have any female role models.

I never really thought about the fact that there weren't female role models, because I had them in my life. The women I knew in my life were so strong.

I believe women need to hear stories and see images that they can identify with, not media-fabricated ideals that even the 'role models' themselves can't live up to.

People need role models, and they need to feel that there's this opportunity to learn. They need to have people that will stick up for them. I want to be a part of that.

'A New Model' is saying that women should be confident in who they are and that they can be their own role models.

Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.

From the very beginning, I had a lot of female role models in music. I would go to shows, and there were always women fronting bands and playing guitar or backing up and playing drums or bass in a band. That probably contributed to my belief in myself to go out and perform for people.

The first time I learned about Aerie, I was blown away by how beautiful and confident the models appeared in their ads - and more so that they were un-retouched.

It is draining when you have a child, and there aren't many women directors with kids out there as role models.

All of my role models as an artist have always been women actors.

All that young people have to look up to are older role models, and I think it's important to have people like myself show that it's OK to be who you are when you're young.

There are so many male models who are working in high fashion, and they are broke. It's good to be a woman.

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of role models - Bonnie Raitt, Lita Ford, Jennifer Batten.