WHAT MESSAGE WOULD YOU MOST WANT TO INSTILL IN YOUNG GIRLS?

That they're beautiful. That they are so important and worthy, and that they need to safeguard themselves from the messages that are out there. That our society, for the most part, when it deals with or talks about women's bodies is wrong. That you don't have to be a size zero. You don't have to look like a Gossip Girl to be beautiful. That you don't have to be like one of these bone skinny actresses. You can be, if that's how you naturally are, but you don't have to strive for that. That they're all beautiful, and that any woman has the right to be beautiful and that you can claim this for yourself. - MARGARET CHO -

That each of them is already a unique and valuable person when she's born; every human being is.
- GLORIA STEINEM -

The message I would most want to instill is: you are more powerful than you know; you are beautiful just as you are. - MELISSA ETHERIDGE -

COURAGE. Also, I encourage courtesy to accept nothing less than courtesy and to give nothing less than courtesy. If we accept being talked to any kind of a way, then we are telling ourselves we are not quite worth the best. And if we have the effrontery to talk to anybody with less than courtesy, we tell ourselves and the world we are not very intelligent.  -MAYA ANGELOU -
Daring to Be Ourselves
Marianne Schnall