Young Women Quotes - Page 2

• Listen to these wounds of pain put in the form of questions to me by a young woman who had had two abortions: "I wonder about the spirits of those I had aborted, if they were there, if they were hurt? I was under three months each time, but a mother feels life before she feels movement." "I wonder if they are lost and alone?" "I wonder if they will ever have a body?" "I wonder if I will ever have a chance again to bring those spirits back as mine?" Alas, brothers and sisters, "wickedness never was happiness" (Alma 41:10).

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Life, Mother, Hurt

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• I remember so clearly, in the early days, if I had to do a piece of press, they'd phone for me and say, 'Oh, we're going to bring hair and makeup, it'll take about five hours.' And I said, 'Well, if it was Ian McEwan, would it take about five hours? Would there be hair and makeup? Cause if that's not the case, then don't bring the hair and makeup.' So, it's fascinating that they just assume: it's a young woman, she must want to be photographed for five hours. She must have nothing better to do than delight in trying on all your shoes. But it's not the case.

  Zadie Smith

  Makeup, Phones, Hair

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• Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it without pleasure.

  Jessica Valenti

  Sex, Fun, Joy

  Jessica Valenti (2009). “The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity Is Hurting Young Women”, p.43, Seal Press

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• So that would be a classic mixed message to young women: you should look a certain way that's going to destroy your reproductive system and your sexual appetite, but at the same time, you should be interested in sex!

  Susie Bright

  Sex, Would Be, Looks

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• Motherhood has brought me many joys and insights, but the new perspective it granted me on the role I had inadvertently played in young women's lives for the 2 decades I spent in the modeling industry was downright sobering.

  Carre Otis

  Motherhood, Perspective, Joy

  "Ending the Myth" by Carré Otis, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 8, 2011.

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• Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

  Katherine Dunn

  Fighting, Boys, Men

  "Just as Fierce". www.motherjones.com. November/December 1994.

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• I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

  Sister Souljah

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• The world is a different place in this new century, [...]. And we are a different people. My visions still come but no one listens any longer to what they tell us, what they warn us. I knew even as a young woman that destruction bred on the horizon. [...] War touches everyone, and windigos spring from the earth.

  Joseph Boyden

  Spring, War, People

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• A young woman is dead. I don’t care. You probably don’t care. The police don’t care. The papers don’t care. The punks for the most part don’t care. The only people that care are (I suppose) her parents and (I’m almost certain) the boy accused of murdering her.

  Lester Bangs

  Boys, People, Parent

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• The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.

  Neil Jordan

  Girl, Sensual, Teeth

  "In the Company of Neil Jordan: Teaching Little Girls Not to be Afraid of Wolves". Interview with Michael Dare, first published in LA Weekly, April 19, 1985.

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• It's important for people to believe in themselves. It's important for young girls to have the opportunity to excel and promote themselves, and learn how to communicate and that they can be individuals, yet accomplish so much. The Girl Scouts and other organizations like them make that so important, so vital. Girls are given the opportunity very early in life to give them that confidence in themselves. It's crucial for organizations to support young women.

  Linda Chavez-Thompson

  Girl, Believe, Opportunity

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• Some models are naturally very thin, but if they aren't naturally like that, then what these girls do to their health to fit in ... To be a size zero or a two when you're tall is incredible to me. It would be nice if models were allowed to be a more healthy weight - for the models, and for the young women who look up to them. We were athletic and healthy, and we looked like women.

  Tatjana Patitz

  Girl, Zero, Nice

  "The forgotten supermodel" by Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. January 14, 2009.

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• There's still a lot of misogynist pop music out there, and I think that hearing something that's so explicitly feminist and so angry - when we're still growing up in a culture where girls and women are not supposed to be angry - is a real revelation for young women.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Girl, Growing Up, Real

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• Young women are not as likely to receive the encouragement they need from role models like teachers and parents. And they should be encouraged - studies show women are just as likely as men to win when they do run.

  Tammy Duckworth

  Running, Teacher, Encouragement

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• First of all, I would tell any young woman who's interested in politics to get in touch with herself first and really, really determine if this is what she wants to do - and not do it just because it may be the thing at the moment. What do you care about? What is it that moves you? What would you like to change? What would you do if you were in this situation?

  Maxine Waters

  Moving, Care, Moments

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• There is a condition into which many young women fall. They attach themselves to violent men. They forgive any mistreatment. They think it love; it isn't. What they really want is to be punished for their sins, real and imagined - or for someone else's

  Jed Rubenfeld

  Real, Fall, Men

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• I got a role in this movie called Freeway playing this really angry, aggressive, violent young woman who believed wholeheartedly in the truth. I had such satisfaction afterward, and I thought, That's what I want to do.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Truth, Satisfaction, Roles

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• Falling in love is not the only adventure worthy of a young woman.

  Caitlin Stasey

  Falling In Love, Adventure, Love Is

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• It was critical to finding a way out. I had assumed young women knew the history of feminism and must have felt gratitude to the movement for the opportunities that the work we have done has afforded them.

  Betty Buckley

  Gratitude, Opportunity, Feminist

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• Once again decent citizens will be able to enter this house of worship, kneel down in front of a nearly-naked man hanging from a wooden apparatus by a series of gruesome body piercings, and engage in their bizarre practices of ritualized blood-drinking and cannibalism without being assaulted by graphic images of attractive young women with bare breasts.

  A. Whitney Brown

  Drinking, Men, Blood

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• I don't think these women are stupid. I think they're selling a personality that's very marketable: Wouldn't it be fun if we were all gorgeous and didn't have a care? But creating a cultural icon out of someone who goes, I'm stupid, isn't it cute? makes me want to throw daggers at them! I want to say to them, My grandma did not fight for what she fought for, and my mother did not fight for what she fought for, so you can start telling women it's fun to be stupid. Saying that to young women, little girls, my daughter? It's not OK.

  Reese Witherspoon

  Cute, Girl, Daughter

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

  Joyce Maynard

  Daughter, Mother, Encouragement

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• I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.

  Alyssa Mastromonaco

  Being Yourself, People, Fake

  Source: www.popsugar.com

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• I want to find a way to reach young women emotionally and also to start providing clothing for them so that they can wear the same things their thin friends can wear. I really want to do evening wear and prom dresses for these girls.

  Delta Burke

  Girl, Fashion, Dresses

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• A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.

  Christy Mathewson

  Travel, Spring, Journey

  Christy Mathewson (2013). “Pitching in a Pinch: Baseball from the Inside”, p.93, Penguin

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