Elaine Welteroth Quotes

Growing up, I didn't have older sisters or many strong female role models to look up to. Being an adult now and looking back, I realize how much I wanted someone like that.

I grew up in a family with two very strong women, my mother and my older sister, and they were big influences on my life.

Generally, I liked feeling able to connect with millions of women on a very deep level. It felt special that women especially would cut out my strip and place it on a refrigerator.

I think there's something special and timeless about girls getting ready together.

When I started on 'Big Bang,' I was the only girl; I felt like I had four brothers. Then Melissa Rauch and Mayim Bialik came on the show, and we got really close. Because of that, I'm not so quick to judge other women, and now I have all these amazing new girlfriends.

I would love to do a project with all of my female friends and create something from scratch and have some female-driven story with the women in my life who are so strong, confident, and beautiful inside and out.

Women have always been a good influence on me.

I have a really big heart for young women - having been one - when there aren't a lot of good examples for young women.

Support other women! We are taught to be competitive with other women, to vie with them for the 'girl spot' in a group or job. Anything that helps an individual woman is good for all of us! Love and support your friends!

I think we see too much female-on-female hating each other on TV. We should stick together.

I went to the Convent of the Sacred Heart for four years. It was interesting to me because, in a family where men were clearly favored over women, this was an atmosphere, a world, run by strong, determined, smart women in leadership, who had high expectations of the girls, and this tremendous sense of love and commitment to the wider world.

My grandmother really inspires me. I lived with her until halfway through middle school, since both my parents worked a lot.

Supporting other girls and other women in your surroundings - it could be anything, not necessarily music - it is you giving back to the world.

If Queen Amezan and Queen Penthesilea could somehow meet in real life, they would recognize each other as sister Amazons. Two tales, two storytellers, two sites far apart in time and place, and yet one common tradition of women who made love and war.

I really love, honestly, just being with your best girlfriends.

I've been blessed with so many wonderful women friends throughout my life.

Being the first female CEO of one of the Big Four, I certainly intend to pay it forward.

Women, teenagers, we have to really empower each other.

Bey is a big sister; she's a huge supporter. I mean, the whole Destiny's Child family - Kelly and Michelle - they've always been great supporters of mine in all my endeavors.

I have to say that it's fun to write for young girls, and it's exciting to know that we're influencing them and they're looking at us like, 'I want to grow up and be like them.' I mean, I just made up the person saying that.

I've always been a girl's girl, and I've always enjoyed my girl friends' relationships, so I want the girls who follow me to feel like we're besties.

I am a girl's girl all the way, always have been.

Coming from a single parent household, I witnessed firsthand the strength and courage of the single mother. I always had my father in my life but my household was run by my mother and my grandmother. As a result, I have always had the utmost respect for women and have chosen to strongly convey that in my music.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

I've tried my best to be a good role model for my two younger sisters.