Young Women Quotes

• Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Strong Women, Time, Uncontrollable Urge

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Clouds of Witness”, p.292, Open Road Media

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• ‎I know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Girl, War, Smart

  Khaled Hosseini (2010). “The Complete Khaled Hosseini: Digital box set”, p.242, A&C Black

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• I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.

  Maya Angelou

  Love, Inspirational, Girl

  Maya Angelou, Jeffrey M. Elliot (1989). “Conversations with Maya Angelou”

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• I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.

  Eric Jacobson

  Dream, Fun, Believe

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• A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn't so much the worse for you.

  Henri Matisse

  Character, Young, Claws

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• I think, with never-ending gratitude, that the young women of today do not and can never know at what price their right to free speech and to speak at all in public has been earned.

  Lucy Stone

  Gratitude, Women, Thinking

  "The Progress of Fifty Years". Speech at the Congress of Women at the Woman's Building of the World's Columbian Exposition (World's Fair), Chicago, Illinois, digital.library.upenn.edu. 1893.

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• But methings wit is more necessary than beauty; and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it

  William Wycherley

  Beauty, Thinking, Ugly

  1675 The Country Wife, act 1, sc.1.

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• Where should one use perfume?" a young woman asked. "Wherever one wants to be kissed.

  Coco Chanel

  Inspirational, Kissing, Use

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• To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia - to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.

  H. L. Mencken

  Love, Funny, Mistake

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.57, Vintage

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• No time to marry, no time to settle down; I'm a young woman, and I ain't done runnin' around.

  Bessie Smith

  Women, Black History, Done

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• The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.

  Eric Hoffer

  Mother, Children, Sadness

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• The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.

  Salvador Dali

  Clever, Flower, Men

  Preface to Pierre Cabanne, Dialogues with Marcel Duchamp (1968)

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• When I get up and work out, I'm working out just as much for my girls as I am for me, because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It's just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.

  Michelle Obama

  Girl, Daughter, Fitness

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• My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don't know the full story on - whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There's a sense that we're all ‘too’ something, and we're all not enough.

  Emma Stone

  Hope, Kindness, Women

  "The Really Amazing Spider-Man 2 Star Emma Stone On Tuning Out The Haters And Owning Who You Are". Interview with Brittany Burke, www.seventeen.com. May 2, 2014.

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• The body of a young woman is God's greatest achievement...Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can't have everything.

  Neil Simon

  Women, Achievement, Body

  Neil Simon (1971). “The gingerbread lady: a new play”, Samuel French, Inc.

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• A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.

  Stasi Eldredge

  Being Strong, Strong Women, Warrior

  John Eldredge, Stasi Eldredge (2011). “Captivating Revised and Updated: Unveiling the Mystery of a Woman's Soul”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• It's not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It's an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it's something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of... It's a condition that is curable if it's caught early. If not, if it's allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.

  Hilary Mantel

  Girl, Running, Teenage

  "Mantel Takes Up Betrayal, Beheadings In 'Bodies'". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. November 26, 2012.

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• The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.

  Gloria Steinem

  Daughter, Way, Example

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• Attaining a PhD is just an excuse that all young women are using nowadays to avoid starting families.

  Kevin Rudd

  Phds, Excuse, Starting

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• I still use the pronoun she for my publicity materials, and for mainstream media stuff, for two reasons: the first is that I do a lot of work in public schools, and I want those young women and girls to see every kind of she there can be. I want them to see my biceps and my shorn hair and shirt and tie and for some of them to see me as a possibilityI want them to see me living outside of the boxes, because they might be asphyxiating in their own box and need to see there is air out here for them to breathe, that all they have to do is lift the lid a little.

  Rae Spoon

  Girl, School, Hair

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• Young women you will be the ones who will provide the example of virtuous womanhood and motherhood. You will continue to be virtuous lovely praiseworthy and of good report. You will also be the ones to provide an example of family life in a time when families are under attack, being redefined and disintegrating. You will understand your roles and your responsibilities and thus will see no need to lobby for rights.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Responsibility, Motherhood, Rights

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• As a young woman, Ama Ata Aidoo the freedom fighter vowed never to write love stories. Let’s delight in the fact that over the years she has changed her mind about the value of writing about love, as her rich edited collection of highly original and diverse ‘African Love Stories’ demonstrates. She has traveled her path and had the courage to grow and change while retaining her deep commitment to Pan- Africanism. Love flourishes, after all is said and done.

  Amina Mama

  Writing, Commitment, Years

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• I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

  Rachel Roy

  Needs, Demand, Workplace

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• There’s a saying in Africa, if you give a woman empowerment, you empower a community, you empower men, you empower man. When women become empowered and live in their strength it’s beneficiary to others, and I think as young women today we sometimes forget that we are standing on the struggle of other women. Those women had to stand up to make a change, and they were not popular, and now we’re making them unpopular again.

  Danai Gurira

  Struggle, Men, Thinking

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• Sometimes I go, “What am I doing with my life?” But then I get letters from young women, or people come up to me, and they say, “You’ve made such a difference to my confidence.” And that is a good thing. I should read more fan mail though. I’m crap at responding.

  Helena Bonham Carter

  Differences, People, Mail

  Interview with Tom Mottram, www.stylist.co.uk.

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