Young Women Quotes - Page 16

• I think many times young women do not give sufficient weight to the unique contribution that they can bring to any discussion or any cause. And they have within them something very special, and they should count all of their experiences as a plus.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Unique, Thinking, Giving

  Source: blog.sfgate.com

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• Service is an opportunity for young women to really empower themselves.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Opportunity, Empowering, Young

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• Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

  Susie Orbach

  Hair, Ubiquity, Faces

  "Body uniformity? Don't do it, guys" by Susie Orbach, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2010.

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• I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

  Patricia Ireland

  Girl, Racism, Empowerment

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• How it's Done is a richly woven tale of a young woman who discovers what it really means to be an adult. This story, told with honesty and heart, held me in my seat to the very end. I have discovered a new favorite writer in Christine MacLean.

  Han Nolan

  Honesty, Heart, Mean

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• Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth.

  Susan Wojcicki

  Kids, Creative, Want

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• I get really upset seeing my friends who are mums crying because they feel like they're not good enough. Clever, confident, kind young women all going, 'I'm ruining my child's life.

  Daisy Donovan

  Children, Clever, Not Good Enough

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• Those running tights the young women wear now, so they look like spacewomen, raspberry red and electric green so tight they show every muscle right into the crack between the buttocks, what is the point of them? Display. Young animals need to display.

  John Updike

  Running, Animal, Cracks

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.213, Random House

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• I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way.

  Jean M. Auel

  Eye, Hair, Ideas

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• a young woman in love always looks like patience on a monument smiling at grief

  William Shakespeare

  Grief, Looks, Young

  Jane Austen, William Shakespeare, A. C. Ward (1965). “Northanger abbey”

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• There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

  Judy Chicago

  Artist, Gender, Young

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• I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Women, Talking, Pleasure

  Henry David Thoreau, Jeffrey S. Cramer (2007). “I to Myself: An Annotated Selection from the Journal of Henry D. Thoreau”, p.115, Yale University Press

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• Today's young women don't really see inequities until they go out into the real world.

  Eleanor Clift

  Real, World, Today

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• It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.

  Saffron Burrows

  Hollywood, Helping, Film

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• I like a little bit of revolution. I think it's a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.

  Caitlin Moran

  Thinking, Squash, Hobbies

  "Half Wollstonecraft, Half LOLcats: Talking with Caitlin Moran". Interview with Sally Errico, www.newyorker.com. November 15, 2012.

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• I can't help but wonder why we, as Christ professing young women so easily submit our minds and emotions to an industry that openly mocks the purity and righteousness of our Heavenly Prince.

  Leslie Ludy

  Mind, Helping, Emotion

  Leslie Ludy (2008). “Set-Apart Femininity: God's Sacred Intent for Every Young Woman”, p.80, Harvest House Publishers

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• I do note with interest that old women in my books become young women on the covers... this is discrimination against the chronologically gifted.

  Terry Pratchett

  Book, Aging, Discrimination

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• Overall, I have formed three major organizations: the National Association of Business Women, the Young Women's Leaders Network, and the Joyce Banda Foundation. Under the foundation, we have a huge program that targets women to teach them about HIV and other diseases and to give them economic empowerment.

  Joyce Banda

  Organization, Giving, Leader

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• I feel like a young adult. In high school I never felt like my professional life and my personal life were at odds, because Rookie felt like the bridge.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Jobs, Teenager, School

  Interview with Grimes, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Friends describe me as someone who likes to sing and dance along the edge of the roof. I try to encourage young women to be willing to take risks, to stand up for the things they believe in, and to step up and accept the challenge of serving in leadership roles.

  Wilma Mankiller

  Believe, Challenges, Risk

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• Constance L. Rice, co-director of the Los Angeles of the Advancement Project, told the Times that Seltzer might have been influenced by David Simon's fake ghetto series, "The Wire." It figures. Isn't this sexism? Isn't this a double standard? They're hard on this young woman for her fake ghetto book, yet praise these White guys for theirs. So there's a big market in downing Black men.

  Ishmael Reed

  Book, Ghetto, Men

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• The young women who attract so much attention never change: They are all stupid. They have at best only the crudest notions of their own power, and never calculate motives or consequences. Giving a young woman a young woman's body makes as much sense as giving ten teenagers Lamborghinis and telling them to drive in figure 8s around a parking lot.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Teenager, Stupid, Giving

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• Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

  Richard Brookhiser

  Ignorance, Men, Emptiness

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• The stark truth is that as long as the welfare state makes it possible for young women - or teenage girls - to have children without a husband and survive without a job, out-of-wedlock births will remain ruinously high, and the inner city will continue to be marked by crime, poverty, and despair.

  David Boaz

  Girl, Jobs, Children

  David Boaz (1997). “Libertarianism: A Primer”, p.261, Simon and Schuster

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• Young women are now looking at me for cues. That's definitely been a responsibility. But I feel like I was ready to take on something like this because I wanted to be challenged and I wanted to be afraid, and that's definitely what it's done for me.

  Tatiana Maslany

  Responsibility, Done, Young

  Source: collider.com

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