Quotes About Youth

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

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'.

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

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.

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.

Years ago, when I first started wearing hair extensions, I would get mail from young girls, or young girls would come up to me and they would say, 'Tyra you have the most beautiful hair, like I could never grow hair like that!' And I would say 'Child, this is a weave!'

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.

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.

Edgar Degas's famous sculpture, 'Little Dancer Aged Fourteen,' served as my muse for 'The Painted Girls.' I came upon a television documentary on the work, and as someone who held the sculpture in high esteem and who largely considered ballet to be the high-minded pursuit of privileged young girls, I was struck by what I would learn.

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.

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

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

I think sport can play a really positive role in young girls' lives and be great to see as many of them playing sport as possible.

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 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.

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!

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.

It is with pain that I read of the dire effects of my book upon the minds of young girls.

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.

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.

For whatever reason, various outlets and individuals are committed to making the world think that young girls don't talk or care about feminism anymore, that it's totally over. But it's not.

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

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

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