“Growing up I definitely looked up to Dominique Moceanu. She was my favorite gymnast and she was on that '96 Olympic team. She was always so fun to watch. I kind of wanted to model my career after hers.” KindWantedFunCareersWatchesGrowing UpGrowingTeamModelsMy FavoriteGymnast Author:Alicia Sacramone
“I was growing up with a single mom who'd be at work when I came home from school. So I'd just turn on the TV. I grew up watching old Clint Eastwood westerns. I adopted him as one of my male role models.” HomeSchoolTurnsRolesGrowing UpGrowingTvsGrewMomGrew UpModelsMalesRole ModelsAdoptedTurn-onSingle MomMale Role Models Author:Bailey Chase
“Growing up, I would say Wonder Woman and Nancy Drew were definite role models for me. Historically, I know Amelia Earhart stands out for me.” KnowsWonderRolesGrowing UpGrowingModelsRole ModelsDefiniteStanding OutNancyAmeliaWonder WomanNancy Drew Author:Keri Russell
“I mean, like a lot of kids growing up in the early seventies, I was fed Dr. Kissinger with my Fruit Loops. He was the Dr. Ruth of American foreign policy, and the model statesman.” MeanKidsGrowing UpGrowingPolicyModelsFruitFedsForeign PolicyDrsSeventiesStatesmenLoopsRuthKids Growing UpAmerican Foreign PolicyKissinger Author:Eugene Jarecki
“Children model the behavior of adults, on whatever scale is available to them. Ours are growing up in a nation whose most important, influential men - from presidents to the coolest film characters - solve problems by killing people. ... We have taught our children in a thousand ways, sometimes with flag-waving and sometimes with a laugh track, that the bad guy deserves to die.” PeopleMenWayChildrenImportantSometimesCharacterProblemFilmGuyDiesNationsPresidentLaughingGrowing UpGrowingTaughtThousandBehaviorModelsAdultsDeserveMurderOur ChildrenKillingTrackAvailableSolveScalesFlagsBad GuysInfluentialFlag Waving Author:Barbara Kingsolver
“Growing up I had lots of role models. Looking back, my parents were my first role models.” FirstsParentRolesGrowing UpGrowingModelsRole ModelsLooking Back Author:Kumar Sangakkara
“I think we can provide better stories through providing mentors, and certainly part of my story is providing mentors to kids growing up without dads. I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.I think positive male role models go a long way in terms of rescuing kids from a life of trouble.” ThinkingWayLongStoriesKidsTermRolesGrowing UpGrowingTroubleDadModelsMalesRole ModelsProvidingMentorLong WayThink PositiveKids Growing UpMale Role Models Author:Donald Miller
“Trans rights formation that mimics the models and strategies of the lesbian and gay rights framework is growing, and there are many significant strategy disagreements between those building that work and those doing racial and economic justice centered trans work.” JusticeGrowingRightsEconomicBuildingGayModelsStrategySignificantFrameworkDisagreementFormationTransGay RightsEconomic Justice Author:Dean Spade
“Although some people will say it's a cliché, I think not having had a father when I was growing up affect me negatively because I didn't have a good role model to follow.” PeopleThinkingFatherRolesGrowing UpGrowingModelsRole ModelsGood Role Models Author:Halle Berry
“I was always a big kid and I'm okay with that, but I know that it would have been better growing up if I had seen role models who had figures like me, beauty comes in all different packages.” IfsKnowsHas BeensDifferentBigsKidsRolesGrowing UpGrowingFiguresModelsOkayLike MeRole ModelsPackages Author:Mia Tyler
“When I was growing up, I said I wanted to be a model, but people said I had no chance and when I realized my ambition, people in the business still continued to state negative stuff.” PeopleSaidStillsStatesWantedStuffChanceGrowing UpGrowingAmbitionModelsNegativeI RealizedMy Ambition Author:Katie Price
“I want to be the best role model I can be for my family. I want my husband and I to be the ones our kids look to for guidance, to be the great role models that I had with my parents growing up, so for as hard as we work, I want our kids to see us having fun. I want our kids to know that we have to feel our bodies. And nutrition is a huge part of that.” KnowsWantFeelsLooksI CanHardBodyKidsFunParentRolesGrowing UpGrowingHugeHusbandModelsMy FamilyHaving FunGuidanceBeing The BestMy HusbandRole ModelsNutritionGreat Role Models Author:Kerri Walsh
“Growing up, it was difficult to find role models I could relate too. Mass media told me to emulate sexy singers or sexy actresses. Jane Goodall was the closest thing I found to a woman I wanted to be like.” WantedFoundDifficultRolesGrowing UpGrowingMediaMassModelsSexyActressesSingersRelateRole ModelsClosestJaneEmulateMass Media Author:Lynsey Dyer
“Growing up I didn't have curvy role models, mainly because I didn't see enough curvy women represented in major ads.” EnoughRolesGrowing UpGrowingMajorsModelsRole ModelsAdsCurvyCurvy Women Author:Ashley Graham
“I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayNeedsImportantKidsLostRolesGrowing UpPathGrowingRight NowModelsGuidesRole ModelsRight PathGuide Me Author:Jeremy Lin
“Globalization and the neoliberal economic model have already been rejected in Latin America; it simply hasn't been a solution for our people. At the same time, Latin countries like Venezuela and Argentina are anti-imperialist and anti-globalization, and yet their economies are growing again.” PeopleCountryAmericaPoliticalEconomyGrowingEconomicPoliticianModelsSolutionsEconomicsRejectionRejectsLatinRejectedImperialismGlobalizationLatin AmericaArgentinaProblems And SolutionsVenezuelaNeoliberalismEconomic ModelsEconomic Globalization Author:Evo Morales
“I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!” ThinkingLittlesImportantYoungGirlWalksViewsRolesGrowing UpGrowingProudModelsPoint Of ViewRole ModelsYoung WomenWalks Of LifeGirls Growing Up Author:Sally Ride
“Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible.” TryingWholeMotherFatherEasyParentCommunityRolesGrowing UpGrowingCircumstancesModelsMalesBurdenAbsurdDataBritainRole ModelsSingle ParentCensusMale Role Models Author:Jonathan Sacks
“-When I was growing up, Lieutenant Uhura was a major role model for me, a strong black woman on the bridge of a starship… -In a miniskirt, answering the interplanetary telephone?” StrongBlackRolesGrowing UpGrowingMajorsModelsBridgesRole ModelsTelephonesBlack WomenLieutenants Author:Suzanne Brockmann