Women Role Model Quotes

#1. I think exactly the same qualities as men [women role model needs], exactly the same, which is kindness, courage and intelligence.

Mark Millar

#2. Yes. I was the first female colonel. I enjoyed being that kind of role model for young women watching the show. A woman can be a colonel! A woman can be in charge! Those were new ideas then.

Erin Gray

#3. I'm really inspired by playing strong women. Anything that I can be a part of like that, to be a role model for young women.

Missy Peregrym

#4. I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you."

Evangeline Lilly

#5. Joan Rivers was a role model to comics everywhere, but especially to women. She got the first laugh and the last laugh.

Judy Gold

#6. I look forward to continuing to be a role model to women across the country and helping them have confidence in all they do in the ring, on the court or in the game of life!

Marlen Esparza

#7. It's so weird to turn on a switch and be the role model for all women, for all African-Americans. That doesn't happen that easily. It just doesn't. And so I don't act up in public and I don't do anything weird - because my sisters are watching me, not because the world is watching me.

Gabourey Sidibe

#8. I'm very sensitive about being held up as some sort of example. I don't consider myself any sort of role model at all. I have great advantages over many other working women, and my schedule allows me more time with my kids than many working women have.

Jane Pauley

#9. I feel like I'm a very good role model for women.

Blu Cantrell

#10. I don't think there's anything that is a greater area of discrimination against women today than the fact that nowhere in the world is there a female role model in team sports that more than half of a general audience would recognize.

Warren Farrell

#11. And I can't tell you how many women from a certain age group - they would be in their 30s now, 20s and 30s - tell me about how I was their role model when they were young girls.

Lindsay Wagner

#12. I found through my fan mail that women ... really wanted a role model.

Donna Mills

#13. I am a role model, definitely and I definitely support women.

Blu Cantrell

#14. I never set out to be a role model for large women, I just do what I feel is right.

Ricki Lake

#15. [Being role model ]is good for me mentally, selfishly, and it's also nice to try to do that for, especially, younger women. I mean, it's scary as hell ... I worry about it, but I think it's a good thing to try to do.

Mindy Kaling

#16. Americans have gotten to know Sarah Palin. They know that she's a role model to women and other - and reformers all over America. She's a reformer.

John McCain

#17. There is no greater pillar of stability than a strong, free and educated woman, and there is no more inspiring role model than a man who respects and cherishes women and champions their leadership.

Angelina Jolie

#18. I think a good role model has to be sexy. Real, empowered, self-possessed women are sexy. When you're really in control of your choices, your mood, your body, and your opinions, people find you sexy.

Amanda Palmer

#19. Never having seen women play chess, they assumed this game wasn't for them and without even a female teacher as role model, they dropped out.

Gloria Steinem

#20. Kids in college often look for mentors and role models to model their careers after, and women don't have the equivalent of a Steve Jobs or Bill Gates. I think it's a self-perpetuating loop.

Ruchi Sanghvi

#21. My father who was there in the house, he wasn't at all a role model. And my mother, who was trying to protect me from him as best she could, she took me everywhere with her, which gave me a tremendous amount of sensitivity to the things women go through.

Tyler Perry

#22. I just did a spread in 'Maxim', I'm 35 years old. I've had women and parents email me asking if I should really be doing that, since I'm still considered a role model.

Danica McKellar

#23. I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

Sally Ride

#24. My mother has always been my role model, and I believe my survival in the entertainment business is in large part due to my desire to be a strong woman like my mother. She is my hero.

Marie Osmond

#25. I like to think I'm a role model for women. But I also don't like to just limit it to women. I like to think I'm a role model for human beings in general.

Madonna Ciccone

#26. The reason Jennifer Lawrence is allowed to be a body-positive role model to young girls and 'chubby' women is because she is representative of conventional beauty.

Jennifer Armintrout

#27. Hopefully I'm a role model for positive change for everyone - not just women. It's very important to find balance between men and women.

Shari Arison

#28. I certainly think Halle Berry's a wonderful role model. She's a terrific stepmother and has shown that in so many beautiful ways and has made such enormous strides for women culturally and such great successes as an actress and philanthropist.

Sharon Stone

#29. But if a role model in her seventies isn't layered with contradictions - as we all come to be - then what good is she? Why bother to cut the silhouette of another's existence and place it against our own if it isn't as incongruous, ambiguous, inconsistent, and paradoxical as our own lives are?

Molly Peacock

#30. Taylor Swift - I can't say enough good things about her. I admire her so much as a person and as a role model for young women.

Martha Hunt

#31. 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

#32. I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because my job has never been to be a role model for young women or teenagers.

Tavi Gevinson

#33. I have lived with extraordinary women, whether it was my grandmother, my mother. My father passed away when I was 16 ... I was witness to a woman who single handedly brought up the entire family and managed to do everything ... She was an extraordinary role model for me.

Christine Lagarde