I get worried for young girls sometimes; I want them to feel that they can be sassy and full and weird and geeky and smart and independent, and not so withered and shriveled.
Interpretation
The quote expresses a desire for young girls to embrace their uniqueness and confidence without conforming to societal norms.
Amy Poehler's quote highlights the importance of empowering young girls to accept and celebrate their individuality. She emphasizes that it's essential for them to feel confident in their sassy, smart, and quirky selves rather than being restricted by conventional standards of femininity, which can make them feel diminished or less vibrant.
In practice
During a speech at a youth empowerment event.
Be easy on yourself. Have fun. Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life the better. The minute anybody makes you feel weird and non-included or not supported, you know, either beat it or tell them to beat it.
Anybody who doesn't make you feel good, kick them to the curb. And the earlier you start in your life, the better.
Open-faced sandwiches take risks and live big and smile with all their teeth. These are the people I want to be around.
You become more attractive when you love yourself. You ATTRACT the right things when you have a sense of who you are.
We don't want to be afraid to make a choice because we're afraid to make a mistake because most decisions aren't final. Feelings change all the time. You can always change your mind and taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting because we never know what's going to happen. Every day something new comes our way.
It’s very hard to have ideas. It’s very hard to put yourself out there, it’s very hard to be vulnerable, but those people who do that are the dreamers, the thinkers and the creators. They are the magic people of the world.
Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be doomed from the start because of the attitude of those women workers who are not organized.
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves?
Reproductive choice has to be straightened out. There will never be a woman of means without choice anymore. That just seems to me so obvious. The states that changed their abortion laws before Roe are not going to change back. So we have a policy that only affects poor women, and it can never be otherwise.
The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
If women who don't help women get a special circle in hell, I think women who do help women should get a special cloud in heaven.
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