Girl Quotes - Page 23

• At the end of the day girls want jeans that will make them feel confident and sexy, and high-waisted jeans tend to do that.

  Sean Barron

  Sexy

  "Redone Denim Founder Sean Barron Wants You To Throw Away Your Jeggings". Interview with Kate Friedman, www.glamour.com. November 28, 2016.

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• Women are often told to have to be a certain way, to speak a certain way. The "norm" has been defined for many, many years, so it is very scary, especially for girls around the world who don't have the freedom and the opportunity to have a voice.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Opportunity, Scary, World

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There are so many incredible women on TV right now. Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo. These are really incredible female leads that are on network TV. Hopefully, with what I do, and the generation of actors I'm working with, that'll make the lives of other girls coming in after me even better. I hope to aim for that.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Female, Incredibles, Aim

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• My conception around being a woman in 2016 has definitely been shifting over the past year, because I feel like I'm proud of womanhood, and I feel attached to it, and at the same time I'm someone who doesn't believe in having a gender binary, and so often times I separate those two concepts in my mind - the concept of being a woman and the concept of being a girl or being female, being kind of attached to a certain gender identity.

  Amandla Stenberg

  Believe, Past, Mind

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I'd like to see more beauty campaigns for girls who are mixed Latina and black. And if I'm in them, that's great, but overall there's a scarcity there. Companies need to be more mindful of the world we live in and who their consumer is.

  Joan Smalls

  Black, World, Latina

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The biggest piece of advice I would give to other women and girls is that it's really hard, and I feel like we're promised in like these phrases like, "Never give up," and stuff like that, it's going to be easier if you just listen to them. In my experience, and I think the experience of my friends and other women around me, it's a lot - you have to do a lot for yourself because the world isn't as friendly to women and girls as it should be, and it's not as helpful as it should be.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Giving Up, Thinking, Advice

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.

  Rowan Blanchard

  Thinking, Mentor

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• No matter how cutting-edge Hollywood may seem, it is still delayed in how it views people: If producers do not perceive me as an Iranian girl, then I cannot play an Iranian girl. If you aren't perceived as a full black girl, then it makes it more difficult to play a black girl on TV.

  Yara Shahidi

  People, Black, Producers

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I grew up in a family where I was told there were no limitations on me as a girl and I could be anything I wanted to be. It wasn't until I joined the military that I realized that just because I was a woman - just because I had ovaries - I couldn't become a fighter pilot.These structural limitations were the motivation for me becoming a fighter pilot in the first place.

  Martha McSally

  Motivation, Military, Fighter

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• Don't take advice from single people. No shade to everybody in here that's single, but I say that from one point, being the single girl that just knew it all. In the long run, I had to learn. I had to be able to give that chance.

  Teyana

  Running, Long, People

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• Lately, I'm thinking a lot about, in parenting and in my writing, how to create a language about sexism in a way that is attractive and approachable to this age group. I can teach my daughter about not talking to strangers but I can't teach her about how to succeed in a sexist world or even how to exist as a body in a sexist world. I want to begin by asking girls what they want and why they want it? Interrogating that. If this is the sex life you want, what makes you think you want that? I imagine the only way to authentically get at sexuality is by asking those questions.

  Jessica Valenti

  Daughter, Writing, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• I know there are a lot of eyes on me now from young girls, and it makes me so proud. The only Black woman examples aren't Rihanna and Beyoncé. It makes me proud that I am a classical ballerina and they can look at me and see another way to succeed. That is setting a new standard.

  Misty Copeland

  Eye, Black, Proud

  Source: www.ebony.com

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• Young women now, this generation - girls my age too, but even younger than I am - they're the ones that are going to change the world. They've grown up in such a new way of thinking about women and female empowerment. I grew up with a little bit of that, but teenagers now, those are the girls that are going to make the world a different place for everyone else.

  Lucy Hale

  Teenager, Thinking, Empowerment

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Let Girls Learn issue has always been personal for me. I grew up in a working-class neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago where most folks, including my parents, didn't have college degrees. But with a lot of hard work - and a lot of financial aid - I had the chance to attend Princeton and Harvard Law School, and that gave me the confidence to pursue my ambitions.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Hard Work, Ambition

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• I had the honor of meeting a young Pakistani woman named Malala Yousafzai, who was shot and nearly killed just for trying to go to school. I also heard about how nearly 300 girls in Nigeria were kidnapped from their school dorms in the middle of the night. There are girls like this in every corner of the globe. In fact, there are more than 62 million girls worldwide not attending school, and that's an outrage.

  Michelle Obama

  School, Night, Honor

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• Sometimes the issue is about whether families and communities think girls are even worthy of an education in the first place. It's about whether girls are valued only for their labor and reproductive capacities or for their minds as well. And it's about whether women are viewed as second-class citizens or as full human beings entitled to the same rights and opportunities as men.

  Michelle Obama

  Opportunity, Men, Thinking

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• I was an incredibly devoted student, and I would often wake up at 4 or 5 in the morning to study. But even so, there were still people who thought that a girl like me with a background like mine wasn't really "college material."

  Michelle Obama

  Morning, College, People

  Source: www.teenvogue.com

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• In my freshman year of college, when a male professor asked the class, "Who here identifies as a feminist?" Only one girl raised her hand, and the rest of us just sat there. He basically just shamed us for the rest of the class   -   in a constructive way. He went around the room and said to each girl, "Why didn't you raise your hand? Feminism means men and women deserve the same rights, and that the balance in the world is currently tilted in men's favour.

  Lindy West

  Mean, College, Men

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Ashley Graham on the cover certainly better than nothing. It would have felt revolutionary to me as a teenage girl, for sure. But really, all they've done is include a very conventionally attractive woman who is two to three sizes bigger than the model they would usually use.

  Lindy West

  Teenage, Done, Revolutionary

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And to any girls or young women who want to write comics, I tell them, "You have to use your voice. You have to take up space." We have to fight to be heard. No one else is going to fight for us.

  Marjorie M. Liu

  Art, Writing, Fighting

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Walt Disney has never addressed himself to children once in his life - never. The material of his cartoons is made to reach an adult audience. This is the whole trouble. Everything is made to reach everyone, and in order to reach everyone, he must introduce the Hollywood touch. Every illustration of a girl in Disney's books looks like the Hollywood queen and every picture of the hero looks like a badly drawn Cary Grant. Obvious symbols of an adult world.

  Frances Clarke Sayers

  Children, Book, Hero

  Source: www.hbook.com

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• When I was growing up, no one ever said to me, "You cannot do math because you're a girl." But, there was an understanding growing up that math and science were for boys. Somebody lied to me because Katherine Johnson woman exists, all of these women existed.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Growing Up, Math, Boys

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• In my mind I'm like, "No, Katherine Johnson it was you. It was your mind alone that got John Glenn to orbit the earth." He didn't say, "Go get so in so." He said, "Go get that smart girl." But that fact that that she sees the "we" in "I," blew me away.

  Taraji P. Henson

  Smart, Mind, Earth

  Source: www.hollywood.com

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• My job now is to not give up, to continue advocating and fighting for the issues Secretary Clinton ran her campaign on. I have to do that to show young girls in this country that they truly can grow up to be whatever they want to be - they need to know that they can grow up to be president.

  Tammy Duckworth

  Country, Giving Up, Growing Up

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• I happen to think that Hillary Clinton is a beacon of hope for younger girls, as was Barack Obama in other inspirational areas. We've now had an African American president, possibly a woman president, it's pretty cool. As far as she is concerned, whether man or woman, she is capable and experienced to be president.

  Alex Meneses

  Men, Thinking, African American

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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