Kiernan Shipka Quotes

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

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

I have to say that it's fun to write for young girls, and it's exciting to know that we're influencing them and they're looking at us like, 'I want to grow up and be like them.' I mean, I just made up the person saying that.

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.

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.

A lot of young girls look up to me and it's amazing.

As the years went by, working on Broadway, I started seeing that I had a fan base and that they were mostly young girls. They are looking for someone that they can look up to, that they see as a role model. And I don't take that lightly; it's a big responsibility.

If I was a girl again, I would like to be like my fans, I would like to be like Madonna.

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

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

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

I think I'm a different kind of role model for young girls.

I want young people to see me and think you can be feminine and smart and successful, all at the same time.

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

When I see these young girls who are dreaming the dream that I'm living, it's very very exciting and it puts a big smile on my face.

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

For me, it's important to be the representation that I wanted when I was a young girl.

It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.

I feel that I've got the opportunity to set a great role model for girls to look up to a strong, active, compassionate, loving, positive woman, and I think it's so important.

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.

I feel special when I'm told girls look up to me.

I want to give black kids a new superhero.

It's an honor to be the voice for girls who are not scared and who want to have someone to connect with.

I want to be remembered as a Miss Universe who overcame her fears and helped other women overcome theirs.

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.'