Young Women Quotes - Page 20

• If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that's going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don't want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.

  Amanda Donohoe

  Beautiful, Years, Careers

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• Well into the 19th century there were pronouncements from just about every branch of science and medicine that reading, writing, and thinking were dangerous for women. Articles in the Lancet declared that women's brains would burst and their uteruses atrophy if they engaged in any form of rigorous thinking. The famous physician J.D. Kellogg insisted that novel reading was the greatest cause of uterine disease among young women and urged parents to protect their daughters from the dreaded consequences of print.

  Dale Spender

  Daughter, Reading, Writing

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• Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

  Janice Kaplan

  Sports, Believe, Important

  Janice Kaplan (1979). “Women and Sports: 2”, Viking Adult

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• It's like if a young woman writes it, then it's chick lit. We don't care if she's slaying vampires or working as a nanny or living in Philadelphia. It's chick lit, so who cares? You know what we call what men write? Books.

  Jennifer Weiner

  Book, Writing, Men

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• Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.

  Christina Hoff Sommers

  Mean, College, Hands

  "Has Feminism Gone Too Far?". "Think Tank" with Ben Wattenberg, www.pbs.org. 1995.

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• Madonna has a far profounder vision of sex than do the feminists. She sees both the animality and the artifice. Changing her costume style and hair color virtually every month, Madonna embodies the eternal values of beauty and pleasure. Feminism says, 'No more masks.' Madonna says we are nothing but masks. Through her enormous impact on young women around the world, Madonna is the future of feminism.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Color, Impact

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• Young men do not want to have to take a consent form and a lawyer on a date, just as young women have every right to go on a date and to say 'No', having it respected.

  John Redwood

  Men, Goes On, Want

  "Redwood's date rape comments infuriate campaigners" by Will Woodward, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2007.

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• It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

  Helen Garner

  Echoes, Age, Looks

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• Trying to exhaust himself, Vaughan devised an endless almanac of terrifying wounds and insane collisions: The lungs of elderly men punctured by door-handles; the chests of young women impaled on steering-columns; the cheek of handsome youths torn on the chromium latches of quarter-lights. To Vaughan, these wounds formed the key to a new sexuality, born from a perverse technology. The images of these wounds hung in the gallery of his mind, like exhibits in the museum of a slaughterhouse.

  J. G. Ballard

  Technology, Men, Keys

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• She took my hand and pulled me after her, her shoulders giving off a sweet peppermint concoction that the bodies of young women sometimes produce to make my life more difficult.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Sweet, Hands, Giving

  Gary Shteyngart (2006). “Absurdistan: A Novel”, p.212, Random House

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• Soul mates' are fiction and an illusion; and while every young man and young woman will seek with all diligence and prayerfulness to find a mate with whom life can be most compatible and beautiful, yet it is certain that almost any good man and any good woman can have happiness and a successful marriage if both are willing to pay the price.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Marriage, Beautiful, Successful

  Spencer W. Kimball (1982). “The Teachings of Spencer W. Kimball, Twelfth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints”

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• Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you're the one in the green dress.

  Lois Wyse

  Birthday, Reality, Age

  Lois Wyse (2011). “Funny, You Don't Look Like a Grandmother”, p.39, Harmony

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• A young woman in her teens has about 300,000 eggs in her ovaries. By the time she is menopausal, none are left.

  Robert Winston

  Eggs, Ovaries, Teens

  "Relax, couch potatoes - your sperm is safe" by Robert Winston, www.theguardian.com. February 6, 2013.

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• I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don't really look like that.

  Kate Winslet

  Thinking, People, Important

  Interview to Marie Claire magazine, April, 2009.

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• I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

  Olivia Wilde

  Creepy, Barbie, Looks

  "Olivia Wilde Tells Us Her Dos and Don'ts of Turning 30". www.glamour.com. August 5, 2013.

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• I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Boys, Oedipus, Molotov Cocktail

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.88, Anchor

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• Since woman's rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.

  Anthony Trollope

  Fighting, Rights, Battle

  Anthony Trollope (2010). “Mr. Scarborough's Family”, p.375, The Floating Press

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• It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.

  Marlo Thomas

  Power, Unusual, Young

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• Through my travels, I find inspiration in street style and how young women create their individual looks and identity.

  Maria Sharapova

  Inspiration, Style, Identity

  "Stepping Up: Maria Sharapova By Cole Haan". Interview with Erica Bellman, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 3, 2011.

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• A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing - it's been all downhill since then.

  Will Self

  Beautiful, Hips, Back When

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• For my writing, and because I love talking to young women about life, I often asked them which would they rather have - a father in the house with them while growing up or a big butt? I tell you 86 percent of the time, girls say a big butt because it gets them further.

  Jill Scott

  Girl, Growing Up, Father

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• I wish I could just go tell all the young women I work with, all these fabulous women, 'Believe in yourself and negotiate for yourself. Own your own success.' I wish I could tell that to my daughter. But it's not that simple.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Daughter, Mother, Believe

  "Why we have too few women leaders". Sheryl Sandberg at TEDWomen 2010, www.ted.com. December 2010.

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• I think it's important for little girls growing up, and young women, to have one in every walk of life. So from that point of view, I'm proud to be a role model!

  Sally Ride

  Girl, Growing Up, Thinking

  Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• For a very long time now I've been saying to young women, 'You can have it all, but not all at the same time.' How important it is to take very good care of yourself, of your mental and physical and spiritual wellbeing; it's hard to do. It's easier to be a workaholic than to have a truly balanced life.

  Quentin Bryce

  Spiritual, Long, Important

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• My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Home, Giving

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