Emily Ratajkowski Quotes

I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

My father respected and admired my mother and was a person who was always standing by my side, encouraging me to do more and believed in my capacity. So in that sense, my own experience was very good in becoming an empowered woman. From early on, I carried that strong message: 'You can do it.' So I never had any doubt that women can do a lot.

Don't assume your child is weak. If you, the parent, assume that they can't take anymore, what kind of signal are you sending them?

I've got three daughters and I'm going to stand up for them and support them in whatever they want to do.

I have always felt strongly about empowering women. I'm living proof that, with confidence and by believing in yourself, you can accomplish any goal.

The way my father raised me was really informative of how I think about my role as a female and how I view myself in a professional and personal capacity. So he encouraged me to set the bar very high for myself, to set great goals for myself.

It was a blast growing up in a house where you have motivating parents, and my mom would always challenge me no matter what it was.

It's my crusade to help women feel good about themselves.

As a parent, if give yourself what you need, your children will watch you doing that and will give themselves what they need.

Competing with other women wastes a lot of time, and I'm just not very good at it.

I didn't know how capable I was until the people around me in acting school would say I was good.

We are all anxious to be accepted. But if you have a strong mother and father who tell you that you don't have to dress a crazy way, or hang out with people who are looking for trouble in order to be loved and accepted, then half the battle is over.

My daughters related to something in the Spice Girls that made them feel better about being female. They truly started to believe girls could do anything. They could be fat, thin, anything they wanted to be.

It's important for a woman to feel good in her clothes. It's OK to have curves and to work them.

My parents didn't treat me as if there was anything in the world I couldn't do, except be unkind.

I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

I don't think I would have been able to stick with it and been proud of who I am and be feminine out on the court. I think I would have folded to the peer pressure if I didn't have my mom to encourage me to be me and be proud of how tall I am.

My parents were just constantly affirming me in everything that I did. Late at night, I'd wake up and hear my mother talking over my bed, saying, 'You're going to do great on this test. You can do anything you want.'

I find that a lot of women respond to my work in that it doesn't make them feel bad about themselves.

My parents made me believe I could do anything I wanted to do. They were really into empowering me.

Not hippie - my parents were not hippies - but they were very supportive and encouraging, and that does a lot for someone, and it gives them a lot of confidence.

I just want to raise a confident girl. I just want her to know that she doesn't need to be sending naked pictures and doing all that stuff - I'm definitely going to monitor everything. I want to raise her to know that she can go do whatever she wants in life and to be comfortable in her own skin, which I think also just comes with age and time.

I know that when I was a kid, and I was reading whatever I could get my hands on, I didn't associate myself with the girl characters.

The most valuable thing my dad taught me was to never care about what other people thought. When he came to my shows, and I'd announce his presence, he'd stand up with his hands clasped in victory and cheer my name.

My parents are really supportive of everything I do.