“Looking back now, it's easy to see that I had no models for the socially accepted conventional female role, which was certainly a blessing.”

— Jane Roberts

Source: The God of Jane: A Psychic Manifesto (1981), p. 44

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American Writer 1929–1984

Peggy Orenstein (1961) American writer

Source: Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture

“It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice, but the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.”

Wendelin Van Draanen Flipped

Source: Flipped (2001)

“No one forced me to focus on technology. I just did it because I had a passion for it. When I started, there weren’t a lot of women role models. It was Carol Bartz, Judy Estrin. I think there’s been a lot of progress since then, and I think that if women have a passion and really want to succeed, they can. On a relative basis, the male-female ratio is certainly skewed to men, but on an absolute basis, there are a lot of very successful women in technology.”

Mary Meeker (1959) American venture capitalist and securities analyst

Interview with Wired: "The Indomitable Mary Meeker" https://www.wired.com/2012/09/mf-mary-meeker/ (21 September 2012)

“I realize now how lucky I was, in the total absence of role models, to have only men to rebel against. Today's women students are meeting their oppressors in dangerously seductive new form, as successful congenial female professors who view themselves as victims of a rigid foreign ideology.”

Camille Paglia (1947) American writer

Source: Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992), Junk Bonds and Corporate Raiders : Academe in the Hour of the Wolf, p. 213

“There have certainly been challenges throughout my career, but instead of looking at them as drawbacks, I look at them as opportunities and blessings.”

Nina Vaca businessperson

Q&A with Nina Vaca, Founder and CEO of Pinnacle Group https://interview.net/nina-vaca-pinnacle/, Interview.net (April 16, 2019)

“One of the things — the important aspects of this race — is role modeling what good families should look like. Our view was that, if you can't run your own house, you certainly can't run the White House.”

Michelle Obama (1964) lawyer, writer, wife of Barack Obama and former First Lady of the United States

Speech Speech at a Women for Obama rally http://screens.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/if-you-cant-run-the-white-house/, Chicago (August 2007). (YouTube video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN1qZMBE9Gc
2000s

“I was 8 or 9 when I had a sighting of a disk-shaped craft that convinced me that it was certainly not an airplane or anything conventional.”

Steven M. Greer (1955) American ufologist

Source: Quoted in: Researcher's Close Encounters Convince Him Of Extraterrestrials The Virginian-Pilot, Roy A. Bahls, http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=VP&p_theme=vp&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EAFF84CB5EACDC1&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM (22 March 1995)

“I am not a role model.”

Charles Barkley (1963) American basketball player

Series of Nike commercials

“Sometimes I wonder if my purpose on this earth is to be a role model. Look at my challenges as a gift, and my voice as tool.”

Anastacia (1968) American singer-songwriter

Resurrection http://www.anastacia.com/about/, Anastacia.com, 2013.
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“I believe in recovery, and as a role model I have the responsibility to let young people know that you can make a mistake and come back from it.”

Ann Richards (1933–2006) American politician

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