Quotes About Female Role Models

#1. Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

Beth Ditto

#2. There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around.

Keri Russell

#3. There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

Madeleine M. Kunin

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

Leah Busque

#5. I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

Susanna Hoffs

#6. There aren't that many female role models in science. There are a couple of women, but mostly you've got Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss - they're all guys. Bill Nye the Science Guy. I love that guy, but it's all guys.

Elise Andrew

#7. I had female role models to look up to starting in middle school, athletes like Julie Foudy and Mia Hamm who made me realize that there was room in the world of sports for women. They ignited my dream of becoming an Olympic athlete.

Jennie Finch

#8. The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I've seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

L.J.Smith

#9. All of us fail, but this doesn't mean we are failures.

Robert McGee

#10. It's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

Condoleezza Rice

#11. Is it just me, or did Tamou go to hug a Kiwi before realising he had just scored for Australia?

Joe Galuvao

#12. I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is obsessed with cake. The very least I ask is that we have one female character in the world who likes savory things! I don't have any role models who like cheese!

Caitlin Moran

#13. You know, I've never believed, in anything, that you had to have role models who looked like you to do something. If I'd been waiting for a black, female, soviet specialist role model, I'd be still waiting.

Condoleezza Rice

#14. Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

Miranda Lambert

#15. I did not have any role model. I could not learn anything from the female voice that male poets used, a voice which is more "feminine" than female. Nor could I learn anything from ancient female poetry that only sang about love, the feeling of farewell and longing for others.

Kim Hyesoon

#16. But life is not like that. You are not an airline. You can't remove a single olive from every salad served in first class and save one point two million dollars.

Lynn Messina

#17. Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

#18. I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

L.J.Smith

#19. Sometimes I'm not so sure just who I am either.

Ellen Hopkins

#20. I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.

Camille Paglia

#21. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

Lucy Lawless