I think the best role models for women are people who are fruitfully and confidently themselves, who bring light into the world.

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"Motherhood has a very humanizing effect. Everything gets reduced to essentials."

- Meryl Streep

Awareness

"Giving voice to characters that have no other voice—that’s the great worth of what we do."

- Meryl Streep

Compassion

"Put blinders on to those things that conspire to hold you back, especially the ones in your own head."

- Meryl Streep

Self-awareness

"Don't waste so much time thinking about how much you weigh. There is no more mind-numbing, boring, idiotic, self-destructive diversion from the fun of living."

- Meryl Streep

Happiness

"The formula of happiness and success is just being actually yourself in the most vivid way you possibly can."

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"The Lord is sending more exceptional spirits to earth. As a body they excel the average capacity of their forebears. Their potential for personal growth and positive contribution is enormous."

- Elder Richard G. Scott

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"As leaders of the Church, there isn’t anything in this world we wouldn’t do that’s right for you. We have great confidence in you. You are not just ordinary young men and young women. You are choice spirits, many of you having been held back in reserve for almost 6,000 years to come forth in this day, at this time, when the temptations, responsibilities, and opportunities are the very greatest."

- President Ezra Taft Benson

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"Women challenge the status quo because we are never it."

- Cindy Gallop

Empowerment

"We don’t just sit around and wait for other people. We just make, and we do."

- Arlan Hamilton

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"Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another stepping stone to greatness."

- Oprah Winfrey

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