Danielle Brooks Quotes

If you can't see it, you can't be it. It's just having those brilliant women break out and do something - then other girls can say, 'I can do it, too!'

I'm getting a lot of roles as women who are very powerful. I think that's a reflection of me as a person.

My job as the mother of daughters is to make sure my children see that every opportunity is available to them.

A hero that doesn't look like you makes you want to be something else.

I like being a role model - people have told me that I am a role model for empowered women, but I don't see myself that way.

Every single day I've been governor, I hear from a little girl who thinks it's the greatest thing ever that we have a woman governor.

My feminist icon is Michelle Obama. To me she represents the definition of a strong and intelligent woman who has used her platform for so much good.

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.

The single thing all women need in the world is inspiration, and inspiration comes from storytelling.

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.

For me, personally, it has been humbling since I became First Minister to speak to women and girls and have them tell me how much it means to them to have a woman in the top job in politics in Scotland.

You can, of course, be a sexy, strong female and be a good role model.

The person I am every single day is the person that's growing and getting better. The more people look up to me, the more important it is to be concise with what message I want to leave. That's where I feel like I'm a role model. Maybe not to everyone, but for a lot of minorities, I am, and I kinda love that - the role model for the underdog.

I think the Miss Universe title not only gives me the opportunity to become a role model for Latina girls around the world, but to show that beauty isn't just about the outside.

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

I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.

I'm all for having an empowered first lady who can really use that position to improve conditions, be a role model and make change.

In Vermont, Governor Madeleine Kunin has given years of service to our state after becoming the state's first female governor in 1985. She is an inspiration to girls throughout Vermont and the country in allowing them to know that the opportunities they have are unlimited.

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

Linda Hamilton is my hero. She was so tough and so strong and so vulnerable at the same time. I think that's what woman action figures are allowed to be: vulnerable, in a way that women are.

Role models really matter. It's hard to imagine yourself as something you don't see.

I think that we need women role models everywhere. I think that it's really hard to imagine yourself as something that you don't see.

Women have to be able to look at themselves in the mirror as men do and say, “I see a presidential candidate!”

Woman alone can ... speak effectively for woman, since none others can speak with authority, or from the depths of personal experience.