Nancy Pelosi Quotes

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

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

When I think of the limitless potential my young daughters, Grace and Brynn, will have as they grow into young women, I want my girls' generation to remember the strength, determination, and struggles of the women who came before them and paved the way.

We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.

It's wonderful that we're portraying women in this way so that young women can see that women actually are strong and capable of accomplishing all kinds of things.

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

I have done and want to do roles that portray women in a strong light and inspire those women who think they are weak and helpless.

Growing up with strong female role models is always inspiring, and growing up, that was something I aspired to play.

One of the great aspects of a Destiny's Child movie… is the empowerment of the songs and the empowerment that Destiny's Child has given to women.

I was raised by strong women, and the role models I had in music and cinema were strong, too - liberated and provocative.

I was raised by an empowered woman. I married an empowered woman.

I went to all-girls' schools my whole life, so every model of leadership that I saw was a young girl or a woman, and so there was never any hesitation that women could lead. I know what I believe.

I've had my breath taken away when a fan told me since watching my speech she has stopped herself being beaten up by her father. I've been stunned by the amount of men in my life that have contacted me since my speech to tell me to keep going, and that they want to make sure that their daughters will still be alive to see a world where women have power and equality, economically and politically.

The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it."

I feel so blessed that I grew up in the age of the independent woman, the survivor. I had Destiny's Child telling me I didn't need a man to feel good about myself, and I want to carry on that message.

I stand on the shoulders of heroines who never sought public acclaim but served as inspirations to the generations that came after them.

I love performing and entertaining, but what I want to really share is a stronger voice to the people and empower women to show that women and girls can do anything. Don't ever let your gender stop you from chasing dreams.

As a working woman, thinking back to someone I'd want to see on TV growing up are women who can make something of themselves and their future.

I don't know how many girls have felt support through my persona. I'm a girl power. So many girls tell me I'm a girl power, and yes, I am.

I come from a family of strong women, who have been positive role models for me.

I've been really humbled by other women who've reached out to me across the country. Not just women who are running for Congress and federal office, but elementary school students running for student council or high school students who are their class presidents.

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

I've been surrounded by incredibly strong women: incredibly, unapologetically strong women, and I guess that for me has just been the biggest inspiration.

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.

I think I'm a girl's girl in the sense that I support women a lot, and I'm definitely all for girl power, but I think I'm quite a tomboy at heart - even though I love my fashion and dressing up, I think my essence is very boyish.