Top 195 Young Girls Quotes

I think the quicker we tell young girls who dream of playing professionally that they should believe in themselves, the more prepared they will be for the world of pro sport.

My goal is to give young girls confidence in this world so they can be more like men in the decision-making process.

We have two issues – not enough young girls starting in karting at a young age and no clear role model. Sometimes you just have to see it to believe it.

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.

Young girls and boys from all around the world let me know their personal story, and I can feel their smile through their words. To be able to look at those comments and just get encouragement from them and know that I am living the life that I’m supposed to is what keeps me going every day.

That’s what I always wanted Man Repeller to do – to change the way people actually think. Showing young girls that there are no rules.

My films do have a big following among young girls, and I want to instill confidence in them, a sense of self-appreciation – to make them feel they can be spirited and say what they feel.

I really just want to change the way women think about themselves. A lot of young girls are quite lost.

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’m so glad teenagers can look up to young girls and realize it’s okay to be voluptuous.

The more people feel comfortable to showcase that and the more we highlight that as a visibility for young girls to see and look up to – I think that’s better.

For some reason, young girls, they don’t want the guy that’s just there.

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.

Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don’t talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

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.

Young girls look to me as a role model and think I crash diet to keep slim. That’s not true, I always eat properly.

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’.

Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don’t think it’s breeding anything good in young girls.

I, particularly, have a penchant for any charity that supports women and helps young girls thrive.

Part of me wonders if I had worked with more female psychologists, nutritionists and even coaches, where I’d be today. I got caught in a system designed by and for men which destroys the bodies of young girls.

When it comes to racial issues, I’m very passionate about young girls just loving who they are in their own skin. Because I remember going to an all-white school and being the only black girl in an all-white school, think – looking around me, thinking there’s no one else here that looks like me.

Acting can be an amazingly cathartic thing – especially for young girls.

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.

Women and young girls are constantly judging themselves by standards that aren’t real.

I never would have dreamt in a million years that I would have young girls coming up to me at Glastonbury or on the streets of L.A., New York, London, and telling me how much GurlsTalk or seeing my picture in a magazine means to them, as a woman of colour.

I’m in a relationship with myself. I think a lot of young girls should do that.

Opportunities for young girls, like young boys, to go into academies from a young age does happen now in England, but it doesn’t happen globally.

I want young girls to be inspired to love themselves and strive to follow their dreams no matter what.

I want young girls to know that their passions are important and that they should pursue them, regardless of whether or not they think that they’ll be successful in terms of the mainstream.

As an Olympic athlete, especially a female Olympic athletic, social media‘s such an amazing place, people are so positive, all these young girls. Anything negative is such a small space, people aren’t coming at you for their gender.

I want to be someone for young girls to look up to, for fathers to want their daughters to listen to me because I’m not rude, and I’m actually talking some sense.

Young girls need to see women who are strong and vulnerable and complex onscreen.

My mother had aspirations to become a concert singer. Her Methodist Minister father didn’t approve of young girls leaving home until they married, so she had to pass it up.

Especially for young girls growing up, it would be lovely to see strong women who don’t necessarily need to be sexy or find that interesting. Or have to be the girlfriend or the mother. They can play complex characters that you want to follow and make you believe that you can be strong as well.

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’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 think a lot of women could be making great music but still don’t feel like they’re capable – in fact, I know that’s the case for a lot of young girls who try to do music.

Whenever I see young girls wearing way too much makeup… you’re young, you don’t need that much.

I don’t mind failing, because I see it as an opportunity to try again and eventually succeed. Having this attitude and sharing it with young girls encourages them.

It was Jesus who gave me peace when the shark severed my arm. I trust in Jesus whenever I’m going through a hard time. I see all the beautiful things that have come out of my situation. I’m able to share my story with young girls who have few role models, and I can help others cope with what they have been through.

I want people – especially young girls – to know that in life, nothing is going to be based on sex appeal. You’ve got to have something else to go with that.

I feel like I’m making a difference. I feel like putting out a message for young girls to follow your dreams and just work at what you want to do and be yourself.

I want kids, young women, young girls especially, who oftentimes by junior high they think they can’t do math or science… I want them to know that it’s creative, it’s problem solving, and it’s for everyone.

I’m honored to be in a position to have young girls or performers look up to me.

I’d like young girls to be able to listen to my music and take something positive away from it.

I’ve worked in the studio with a lot of young girls, and they’ll go, ‘Oh, the label is telling me to take off my clothes, and I don’t feel comfortable.’ Well if you don’t feel comfortable, don’t do it.

My dream has always been to inspire young girls to see their own power and follow big dreams and realize that they have potential.

I first started playing in piano bars for three reasons – to make money, to be in the company of my friends – and also to hook up with young girls. I always knew, even before I played in piano bars, about the effect of my voice.

I’m so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren’t allowed to have their 20s. It’s all being documented.

Women in figure skating, like in every other industry, are expected to conform to an unrealistic standard of beauty. Unhealthy habits are often encouraged to promote a thin frame, and young girls idealize a skewed definition of ‘fit.’

There was a point when I was so sick of this physical perfection thing that I thought it would be good for all young girls to eat burgers and sweets as a rebellion but I don’t think that anymore because it’s not healthy.

I guess people don’t think that young girls or young artists have opinions, but I’m so glad that there’s artists like Lorde and Raury and Kehlani because they’re showing other people that young people can have an opinion and a voice and do really well with it. I’m glad I can be one of those people.

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.

Miley Cyrus epitomises what we have allowed. She has done it to break the mould. I can understand why, but we have given her the oxygen of publicity and encouraged it, so young girls will think it is the right way to attract men. We’ve lost our standards.

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.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn’t somebody wake up to the beauty of old women.

It’s really important, especially for young girls, to see that if you fall down, you get back up. If you get sick, you get back up. People are going to say what they want.

Young girls – like friends of my daughter’s – always ask if we do prom dresses, and we do dresses that would be lovely, but £2,000 isn’t realistic for most girls. The Debenhams collection will hopefully be great for that sort of event because the price point is much lower.

For the past few years, I was the more visible Asian performer, and I think it gave young girls a kind of role model showing it’s possible to actually reach success doing movies.

I know a lot of young girls look up to me. I have a lot of fans.

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.

It’s always in our mind-set to encourage young girls to get playing. The only way we can do that is being positive off the pitch, trying to engage as much as possible.

A working woman could save a few shillings a week, and then every five weeks she’d come in and we’d cut her hair. She could shampoo it under the shower, swing it and dry it off or just let it dry by itself. It changed the lives of many young girls who’d never had the opportunity to be styled like that before.

There are times when I feel I’ve exposed too much but I also know what I do has touched people and I get so many young girls that tell me how it has helped them navigate through their own personal struggle and that makes it all worth it.

They go on about banning size zero, but I think Hollywood stars are the worst perpetrators. Most models are naturally long and gangly, while a lot of these young girls in Hollywood have gone on extreme diets. Their concave chests and bony arms are terrifying. It’s scary to think that normal teenagers are tempted to copy them.

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.

One Direction? The young girls will grow up and forget about ’em.

I have a wide spectrum, a wide demographic. I have the young girls, I have the gay community, I have many regular theatergoers. I do feel a tremendous responsibility and pride to be a role model for some of these young people.

I feel like I’m held more accountable to stay healthy now because now I’m a role model to young girls to not have eating issues and to not say, ‘Hey, it’s OK to starve yourself’ or ‘It’s OK to throw up after your meals‘ – that’s not OK.

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.

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.

We have such a huge demand for engineers in this country, both male and female. We need to find a way to do a better sales job on these young girls so we can get them interested in a field that is very rewarding.

I think a lot of young girls see actresses, and they think of red carpets, and they think of ‘Us Weekly,’ and they don’t really think about the breaking down of a script and what that requires and what you would need to pull it off.

Some of my Vines, the young girls love them. But college students will watch them and be like, yo this is dumb.

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 young girls that I mentor and young girls all around the world who want to be a model to be able to see that there’s a great deal of sacrifice.

Hordes of young girls never copied my hairdos or the way I talk or the way I dress. I have, therefore, never had to go through the stress of perpetuating an image that’s often the equivalent of one particular song that forever freezes a precise moment of one’s youth.

I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.

When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don’t want to say no to that… I just want to contribute.

While many applauded Oprah for opening her heart to young girls in South Africa, some criticized her for not investing in the youth of America.

The Women’s Sports Foundation has empowered so many young girls and women across the U.S. I benefitted from WSF with a travel and training grant when I was 12 years old. It really helped my family financially.

Girls are told they’re not skinny enough, or they hear, ‘She’s old. She’s boring. We’ve had her. She’s not tiny anymore.’ A lot of people don’t take into account the vulnerability of these young girls.

It’s important for fans to follow only verified accounts of actors. For instance, I am not on Facebook, but I know that many people are running accounts on my name, claiming to be me. Young girls end up liking such dubious pages and get swayed by the activities that happen there.

Everyone has to try to give back as much as possible because I think in all sports it helps kids to have role models or people to look up to. Someone like Jess Ennis, I know a lot of young girls have started to get into athletics stuff because of her, because of her success.

Just as young people absorb all kinds of messages from the media, young girls learn what it means to be a woman by watching the older women in their lives.

I don’t think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs. There was just everybody all over the place.

The behaviour of several male politicians against me has never been condemned by Ed Miliband, or the Labour Party, and it needs to be because in the end, it will have a long-term corrosive effect for politics full stop and for young girls who want to go into politics.

So many people look up to pageants, including young girls and young boys. The message that I would hate to send to them is that you’re only deemed worthy of a title or worthy of recognition or of success if you fit in a certain number.

You have all these glossy magazines which are read by young girls, who then go on a diet and try to be thin to emulate the models they see.

I definitely do prefer more of masculine streetwear type of clothing, but I see a lot of young girls rocking the same type of stuff that I do.

You’re always gonna have your anorexics and you’re always gonna have your bulimics. I’m hoping that young girls will look up to the girls that are the size 4, 6, and 8’s, and know that super super skinny is not pretty – just ask any guy!

Then I read Little Women, and of course, like a lot of really young girls, I was very taken with Jo – Jo being the writer and the misfit.

I have a pretty active presence on social networking sites, and every day there are messages from so many young girls telling me that they are happy B-Town has curvy women like me. I feel you should be happy the way you are. Of course, fitness is important, but not to the extent of obsession!

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.

Boosting education will be a direct counterbalance to Boko Haram’s appeal. In particular we must educate more young girls, ensuring they will grow up to be empowered through learning to play their full part as citizens of Nigeria and pull themselves up and out of poverty.

Nobody likes feeling like an outsider, so it’s intimidating for young girls to give STEM a try when they look into STEM clubs/classes and see a room full of boys.

The atmosphere at my school was very competitive. Young girls were competing with each other every day for status, for leadership, for the affection of the teachers. I hated it.

It is so key to me to be a good role model for young girls and someone their mom would want them to look up to.

I’m a role model for lots of young girls.

I won’t allow magazines in the house. When I was younger, I wanted to have my hair cut like so-and-so in the class above me at school, not somebody in a magazine. You see young girls trying to dress like so-and-so because they’ve seen lots of pictures of them.

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.

We’ve got too many young girls, who don’t know how to parent, turning themselves into parents.

My advice to young girls would be, don’t get on a sun bed and don’t smoke – it wrecks your skin.

I would like to be a positive force for young girls.

Young girls in Haryana should speak their mind and not be afraid to challenge the system.

As a person who wants to see and believe in the story, I don’t think women at age 50 are able to sing young girls.

When I passed 7th standard, govt. of Kerala announced a separate sports school for aspiring young girls. During the selection trials, I stood first in district level as well as state level.

Women’s sport is growing, becoming powerful, and we want to continue to raise that platform for the young girls at home.

I grew up in a big Mexican family and… we always were so comfortable in our own skin. So society, the stuff that I think we see a lot now for young girls, didn’t really reach me because I had this huge Mexican bubble around me saying, ‘You’re beautiful. You’re amazing. You’re strong. And be you.’

When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.

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 saw there was an open market because everything was pushed towards young boys, but we had nothing for young girls. That was a role that could be filled, and finding Bayley helped.

I get tons of emails every day from a lot of gays and young girls asking for help with their self-confidence and to heal and to feel. Even though I’m not an equipped social worker, I think the mom presence that I have makes them feel safe.

I hope all you young girls see yourself up there… we were just like you.

Walking out of that curtain and watching the reaction of the crowd, who may cheer for or boo you, is a kick. It’s addictive and helps us put smiles on children‘s faces by being huge role models for young girls and boys.

If you’re an old cat around young girls, you got to have somethin’ to bring to the table.

It’s so important for young girls see that it’s not weird for girls to understand what happens in the red zone. It’s not rocket science. For a lot of the girls that I grew up around, that’s common knowledge.

I always tell young girls, surround yourself with goodness. I learned early on how to get the haters out of my life.

My music reflects my strong belief in equal opportunities for all – specifically young girls and women. Many, many children do not have anywhere near the opportunities that we kids did in my community – great schools, public safety, etc.

I don’t want to just sell out shows to young girls who like my movie franchise. I want to sell tickets because people respect me.

As players, we need to try to inspire young girls to keep playing because, at grass roots, we need more girls playing football.

I love mentoring young girls. I’ve always been like that.

When I decided to stop racing, I really wanted to give something back to the sport and for me it was always going to be about inspiring young girls and women.

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.

I think it’s really important for all young girls to see themselves represented in fashion so they don’t feel alone in the world.

When young girls can get 400,000 likes by doing a sexy selfie… we have to offer them another way of being. To dream of being female astronauts, engineers or presidents.

I think women should inspire. It is our duty to inspire young girls to play a sport, whether it’s just for enjoyment and keeping fit or to actually go on and try and make a career out of it.

My goal is that a girl will watch ‘The Martian‘ or ‘Interstellar’ and think, ‘I want to be an astronaut or a quantum physicist.’ It’s important to show powerful women who are good at their jobs because young girls need those examples.

I think Jennifer Lawrence is a brilliant role model for young girls, not some of the models that I see on the runway.

Without social media, I wouldn’t have young girls messaging me from Australia or Mexico City or the Midlands, but I do wonder if I’d be on it if it wasn’t part of my job.

Intelligence is sexy. Don’t play dumb, especially young girls. Don’t play dumb. And let people see that you are intelligent.

There’s a lot of good roles for men, always, and for very young girls. But for women, not so many.

I appreciate being able to give back to charities I care about such as the American Diabetes Association – my older sister passed away from diabetes – and Figure Skating in Harlem, which teaches young girls about confidence, focus and goal-setting.

We need to get more women into sport, whether that’s young girls in karting or off the track. The more we get into sport, the more you are going to get rising to the top of the sport.

What it meant for me to win the Emmy is I found it. It’s not just the award. It’s what it’s going to mean to young girls – young brown girls, especially. When they saw a physical manifestation of a dream, I felt like I had fulfilled a purpose.

I think a lot of young girls go through that period in their life of finding who they are, and at that point, looking good matters the most.

I saw ‘The Grand Budapest Hotel.’ I liked it. I saw ‘The Fault in Our Stars,’ and I could see why young girls like it. But it dropped off like crazy in the second weekend. I liked ‘Fed Up‘ – I love documentaries. I go to a lot of documentaries.

We are normally involved in Ozzfest and heavier tours. We love all the tours we’ve done, but I always thought it’d be cool to do Warped, since a lot of these kids are young girls.

I feel that confidence in women – especially young girls of color – but women, in general, is so important. It is so important for us to arm ourselves and become powerful at a very young age.

The greatest thing about being a WWE Superstar is being able to reach so many people. We have so many young girls that look up to us and that drives me to lead by example.

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.

Gymnastics is the greatest sport in the world, and one of the hardest, but we have to watch out for domineering male figures who try to belittle and scream at young girls.

We ask these young girls to grow up too fast. In the society where they grow up, they are asked to grow up too fast, and everything pushes them in that direction. The media creates pressure.

Going through puberty, that Cape Canaveral of the hormones, young girls are in love with the idea of being in love, trying it out for sighs.

I want young girls to dream about being professional soccer players instead of just watching the boys go out and play.

I don’t think there’s going to be a day when I don’t think about food or my body, but I’m living with it, and I wish I could tell young girls to find their safe place and stay with it.

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.

As a woman, sometimes we stress on always being of the moment, and that is a lot of pressure, especially for young girls.

I get letters from kids, teenagers and young girls who just want to be Mac. I’ve had quite a few people actually say that they’re going to become a Marine or a JAG lawyer because of me… the character. I think that’s pretty cool!

I just want people to be inspired – not only young girls but young people in general – and I just want them to know they can do anything they want to do, and they are beautiful, and they are smart.

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities.

The young girls of Paris put everything they make on their backs.

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.

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.

Within the dancing world, where we come from, there’s a lot of same-sex partners as in, young girls dancing because there’s not always enough boys to dance.

It’s so important for young girls of color – young girls of any color – to see diverse women as the heroes of their own story.

I want to inspire young girls and let them know that we are all goddesses inside and out.

You don’t have to try to get a job and go through set steps before you start a career or start your life. That’s what I want young girls to know – you can do anything you want. Just start.

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.

I think so many young girls get caught up in the challenge of being with somebody who’s dangerous, who’s bad, who’s enticing, who’s all of those things, and you forget what it’s like to enjoy simple love.

The problem is neutrality ends in poverty, neutrality ends in choices that hurt people’s lives. This administration is deliberately telling organizations that are there to help young girls make good choices, not to tell them what the good choice is. That is absolutely unconscionable.

Rey is so strong. She’s cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don’t have to show off their bodies.

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.

The link between young girls, eating disorders and osteoporosis is a ticking time-bomb.

We’re teaching young girls that this is what they should be focusing on: rich and famous girls who are rich and famous for nothing.

Yeah, and I recently had my first Elvis moment. A gang of young girls was jumping all over me. It was kinda scary. And totally flattering.

I copied John Lennon; I copied a bit of David Bowie. It’s such a shame, and I’m so glad that now young girls have so many different role models in all different walks of life.

A lot of young girls have looked to their career paths and have said they’d like to be chief. There’s been a change in the limits people see.

I would hope that young girls could relate to me and see that the lives of people on the internet are not as perfect as they seem.

I’m a big advocate for young girls dressing their age.

Young girls of 13 or 12 are great actors.

Rather than force young girls to fend for themselves, we have to protect them.

The most amazing thing for me is when I open up a magazine and I see someone I could be friends with and looks, maybe, slightly like me. And I think that’s the same with young girls. Because there needs to be diversity.

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 think it’d be wonderful if we could train young girls to be active in lots of ways and that they then wouldn’t have to age at the same rate that they would if they were not more active. In other words, more physical fitness and not just the sporty kind, but the yoga, which is really important.

In terms of being a vessel for female empowerment and a role model for young girls, I take it on gladly and seriously, but I hope people remember that I’m just a regular person, and I’m not going to be perfect.

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.

I think that was the biggest learning lesson for me. I realized I can’t be anything for anyone else if I’m not the best me for me. Now I just hope to kind of be that message for young girls to focus on yourself first always. Young people, I should say.

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.

The selfie is revolutionary to me. It is, I think, the only point in history where masses of young girls and women have been able to control, create, and publish images of themselves.

Treaties are like roses and young girls. They last while they last.

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.

It’s the most gratifying thing to have young girls telling me, ‘I love that you do a photo shoot in pants and a button up shirt, and you still look cool.’

That’s the great things about games as social experiences. You play with all your friends across social groups. You see young girls as well as young boys playing. These are kids in school, people in offices, in pubs, all having fun together.

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.

I have no illusions of being an icon to young girls or anybody.

I can remember back to when I was 12, 13, and any show that I watched, I wanted to be the main character and embody them, and I think the fact that Sabrina is, in so many ways, such a positive role model for young girls is really cool.

I remember watching `Apollo‘ with my other grandma – I have so many grandmas – and seeing these young girls sing… I knew in that moment that I wanted to sing.

There’s not really too many artists that young girls and young people can look up to and be inspired by. So I take it as my responsibility, sometimes, to be the person who has the voice to give people some truth about what we’re doing.

Feminists bore me to death. I follow my instinct and if that supports young girls in any way, great. But I’d rather they saw it more as a lesson about following their own instincts rather than imitating somebody.

I want to guide young girls.

My mother was a disciplinarian. She believed that when young girls start to go out with young boys, they get married.

I do want to inspire people – young girls who may like to wear boys’ clothes and who romanticize women and feel nothing wrong with it.

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 am pretty honest about a lot of things that young girls question, like their body image.