I think when Madonna did sexy stuff, she looked more in control. And I think it looked more like she was breaking boundaries. Today, it feels like it’s pandering to everything that’s wrong, and I don’t think it’s nice, especially for young girls.
I want young girls and women to feel like they connect with me and that they don’t have to aspire for unreal beauty or fashion standards.
I have two young girls, 8 and 10. They really keep me young.
Because I was a dancer when I was a kid, I have so much empathy for these young girls who are so drawn to something lovely in music and in movement, and yet they encounter a world full of judgment and criticism of 11-year-old artists and bodies.
I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.
I write for young girls of color, for girls who don’t even exist yet, so that there is something there for them when they arrive. I can only change how they live, not how they think.
I’m not the same person I was. I used to act dumb. It was an act. I am 26 years old, and that act is no longer cute. It is not who I am, nor do I want to be that person for the young girls who looked up to me. I know now that I can make a difference, that I have the power to do that.
I want to motivate and inspire young girls to pursue their dreams, no matter how big they are, and encourage them to never set limitations on what they believe they can achieve.
Intelligence is sexy. Don’t play dumb, especially young girls. Don’t play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.
I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.
Gauguin is creepy – let’s just face it. He goes off into the Pacific, and he’s looking at these young girls, and the colonial gaze: It’s just really problematic.
I was at a community event in Paris a few years ago when a group of young girls came on the stage dressed and dancing in a very risque way. They were only 11 years old, and their performance was shocking.
I’m a big advocate for young girls dressing their age.
Rather than force young girls to fend for themselves, we have to protect them.
In those years of the Fifties, in London and New York, I lived, without knowing it, in a time when the profoundest changes were happening: when a radical alteration was getting ready to happen in the way a society saw young girls. And, as a consequence, in the way they saw themselves.
I think I’m lucky, in a way, because with the criticism I get online, it’s mostly from really young girls that are fans of One Direction, and they’re kind of already known for being mean online. So the things that they insult me with are things that don’t really bother me.
What happens is young girls see images of women being objectified, and the more the woman becomes an object the more followers and likes she has – they see that as a role model and try to imitate these women, but they’re not old enough to know what they’re doing.
It was cool to play an African princess who’s the smartest in the whole world. That never happens. So I hope all the young girls can feel smart, too.
I was embarrassed to be seen in my football tracksuit because they knew I’d been training. I used to cross the road to avoid people. It was really hard. There were so many awkward situations. I just hope young girls now are able to play football and not have to experience what I did.
I’m a big proponent of women’s athletics, and I think they have come so far in this country. It’s given opportunities to young girls that they would never have had.
As a person, to inspire some young girls and give them something to look at and give them something to play for, I think is such a great position to be in. I’m glad that I can follow all of the great Korean players’ footsteps.
I’m a fixer, unfortunately. I’m like, ‘Oh, I can fix you.’ But it’s not just guys I’m dating anymore. It’s this entire legion of young girls who tell me they need me to maintain any sort of sanity or peace.
My first passion was to create for young girls the idea that you have to be brave and courageous, it’s not easy taking big steps and saying, ‘I’m going to be a professional dancer’.
Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.
Given that there was that era of girl group music and it’s still very popular, but I think if you looked at the chart from that time you would see many more men on it. Because the industry, they were catering to young girls. I mean, that’s what they thought their audience was.
I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.
Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren’t real.
For young girls to see someone who looks more like her, doing and being her. That’s where my ambition and drive comes from, it’s being so insanely committed to that. To achieve that, I’m doing everything I can.
So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.
I recognize that I have a unique position to be a role model to young girls because I am doing something that they consider glamorous, which is acting, and yet I took a time to really get my education and study mathematics, and I think math is the cat’s meow.
A lot of young girls who came to see me in ‘Legally Blonde’ have come to see ‘Hedda,’ and they hadn’t heard of the play either, just like I was before I did it! If I can bring a younger generation to see an Ibsen play; that’s just brilliant.
I would love young girls to look up and see my string section or my brass section or the steel band and be like, ‘Wow! I never thought I could do that, that’s wicked! I want to be up there doing that.’
I think there really needs to be a culture change because young girls are very interested in math and science, but somewhere along the way, they veer off of that.
I have to say that it’s fun to write for young girls, and it’s exciting to know that we’re influencing them and they’re looking at us like, ‘I want to grow up and be like them.’ I mean, I just made up the person saying that.
A lot of times, I get asked, ‘Do you feel you have a responsibility to young girls to be a role model?’ I don’t see that happening as much to guys. I feel like, just because I’m a girl, I’m supposed to take more responsibility? Is that how it works?
Obviously, breast cancer is very much out there but cervical cancer isn’t talked about as much because there’s a bit more of a stigma around it. Certainly that’s something I want to make sure that young girls know.
Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes – just to uphold a good image.
There’s those young girls that I once was, looking up to Mia Hamm, Christine Lilly, all those players, and I know how much of an effect they had on me. Knowing that, I feel like I’m in a position where I can really help be a positive influence in girls’ lives.
I want to inspire young girls and let them know that we are all goddesses inside and out.
I want young girls to be inspired to love themselves and strive to follow their dreams no matter what.
I train my chefs completely different to anyone else. My young girls and guys, when they come to the kitchen, the first thing they get is a blindfold. They get blindfolded and they get sat down at the chef’s table… Unless they can identify what they’re tasting, they don’t get to cook it.
I am happy that the young girls have a lot more choices these days and an opportunity to feel better about themselves.
I think it’s great that she’s not perfect and wasn’t perfect. I think that’s maybe why so many young girls and different people look up to Mac and respect her even more.
I can see how the young girls really get hurt when their moms are critical, or vice versa when they’re overly critical of their moms. It can be so painful.
I want to make sure I’m a role model for young girls and play the best I can for my team and my country.
I just really want it at some point to be OK for women and young girls to be sexy because I think that’s a power, a gift that we were given by God or the universe or whatever.
I’ve had so many young girls come up to me after a show and say, ‘How do I start putting my music on Bandcamp?’ or ‘I used to play music, but I don’t anymore, and I really want to start writing again.’ That’s just the most amazing feeling.
When I was a teenager, a mean comment would have hurt me deeply, I’ve made it my mission to be a role model for young girls and boys and help show them that other people’s words or opinions have nothing to do with how beautiful they actually are.
I’m thrilled to continue my partnership with U by Kotex for Generation Know while helping to empower girls. I’ve always been a motivational resource for my younger sisters and hope I can positively impact and inspire other young girls too.
I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.
Looking up to girls for inspo is a beautiful thing, but comparing yourself is what creates the anxiety and self-hatred. It’s really important that young girls know the difference.
A lot of young girls don’t realise how diverse the career opportunities are in games development. Many think that you need elite math skills and a vast knowledge of all things tech to work in games, and haven’t thought about avenues like design, producing, art, writing or composing.
