Young Women Quotes - Page 22

• I am not sure that there has been a "lack of progress." On the contrary, the concept of feminism is not only well established but is now also attracting interest from young women, including teenagers and pre-teens. But a new interest is also symptomatic of the failure of the feminist project and the need for its renewal.

  Laura Mulvey

  Teenager, Feminist, Progress

  Source: en.aup.nl

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• I think one of the primary reasons young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and/or don't really have an accurate or comprehensive understanding of what it is - by proudly identifying as a feminist.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Thinking, Feminist, Understanding

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I lived in great poverty as a child and young woman, and I used to think of money and how to make money as a means to get away from the constant struggle to survive - as freedom. Now I know it isn't freedom. It's not a solution, but a new problem. It comes with its own challenges and tremendous obligations.

  Leslie Parrish

  Children, Struggle, Mean

  Source: www.inner-growth.info

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• All year there have been these cover stories that the women's movement is dead and about the death of feminism and the post-feminist generation of young women who don't identify with feminism - and then we have the biggest march ever of women in Washington. More people than had ever marched for anything - not only more women, but more people.

  Betty Friedan

  Years, People, Feminist

  Source: articles.latimes.com

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• I urge young women to look ahead and see if they want to have a lonely old age or do they want to have what I have, which is the joy of 14 beautiful grandchildren.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Beautiful, Lonely, Grandchildren

  Source: rutherford.org

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• The feminist movement has spent 30 years putting down the role of stay-at-home moms and trying to tell young women that only someone who is mentally disabled would pick that for a career.

  Phyllis Schlafly

  Mom, Home, Years

  Source: rutherford.org

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• When I was growing up, we didn't have this super-skinny, flawless image to compete with. I find it unfortunate that young women may look at those images and think that is the ideal of beauty. It can cause a lot of problems and self-esteem issues if we don't remind girls that being healthy and exactly who you are is the main thing. I'm grateful I didn't grow up with those images.

  Kellee Stewart

  Girl, Growing Up, Self Esteem

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• A young man in Bangladesh can't even hold hands with a young woman. Without marriage there is no kissing, no holding hands, no going anywhere. So young boys can only go to the brothels for sex before marriage.

  Michael Glawogger

  Sex, Kissing, Boys

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The young women seem to think that they can only go out with or marry a man who is superior to them. The problem there is that they are wanting to be defeated, as opposed to finding a partner.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Thinking, Problem

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Two thirds of the work in the world is done by women. Women own 1 percent of the assets. Young women are sold into prostitution, forced labour, premature marriage, forced to have children they don't want or they can't support. They're abused, raped, beaten up. Domestic violence is supposed to be a cultural problem. They are the first victims of war, fundamentalism, conflict, recession. And young women who have access to education and health care and have resources think that everything was done, they don't have to worry.

  Isabel Allende

  Children, War, Thinking

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• Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.

  Isabel Allende

  Girl, Sexy, Mother

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• I didn't really know a lot of the history when I was younger. I didn't realize that the harp is coded in such a specific way in musical circles. It's kind of this society instrument because of its history as a young woman's parlor instrument.

  Joanna Newsom

  Circles, Musical, Way

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. October 13, 2004.

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• I feel like part of the inequality is that there are few great roles written for older women, and I think part of that is, basically, people want to look at young women, whereas men are still considered attractive - or more attractive - when they get older.

  Erin Davie

  Men, Thinking, People

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Maybe a young woman will go see a show by a woman, or starring a woman about women's issues, and that will help her get to that quiet place inside of herself where she can then explore what it means to be a woman to her.

  Laura Benanti

  Mean, Issues, Helping

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It's a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It's a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you're damn right it's a true story.

  Wendy Davis

  Mother, Perseverance, Teenage

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• I always believed that my platform would be speaking to young women that were teenagers that had had their babies and were trying to make it as single moms and still have hope and passions and pursuit of great things in their lives.

  Shari Wiedmann

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• We need more young women who love sports even when their boyfriend/husband isn't making them watch!

  Katie Cleary

  Sports, Husband, Watches

  Interview with Angie Meyer, bleacherreport.com. May 5, 2010.

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• When people watch me on TV they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years. The mother of two who, just like most women, struggles to balance work and family.

  Gretchen Carlson

  Mother, Children, Real

  "'Getting Real' with Fox News anchor Gretchen Carlson". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. July 15, 2015.

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• The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world.

  Philip Yancey

  Jesus, Party, Unseen

  Philip Yancey (1988). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.189, Harper Collins

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• Sheryl Sandberg and Marissa Meyer have already accomplished more than most. I think the sky is the limit for them professionally. If they can inspire more women to "lean in," as Sandberg so famously describes it - to pursue a career and a family - that would be an incredible accomplishment. If they can, by their example as hands on mothers and high powered executives, show young women that they don't need to leave the workplace when they have children, they will be superheroes.

  Willow Bay

  Mother, Children, Thinking

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I see that women still have self-doubt, and at the same time I feel like I see all these fantastic young women, and they all have ambition and are so focused on their futures. I don't think that's an anomaly anymore.

  Mary Harron

  Ambition, Thinking, Self

  "An Interview with Mary Harron". The Believer Magazine, Issue One Hundred Six, believermag.com. March 1, 2014.

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• When I'm talking to people, I find myself quoting the three organizing rules of Black Lives Matter. Black Lives Matter was initiated by three young women, and too few people know that. But, anyway, the first one is lead with love. The second is low ego, high impact. The third is move with the speed of trust. I must say those make me feel very hopeful for the future.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, Talking, Impact

  Source: www.elle.com

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• I wasn't even in a newspaper office where I was getting assignments in competition with other people. I remember earlier, though, that I knew a young woman who had been published in the New Yorker, and I was so jealous of her. It wasn't exactly a personal competition. I just envied that accomplishment.

  Gloria Steinem

  Jealous, Accomplishment, Office

  Source: www.elle.com

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• So, regarding the time frame, I'm only too willing to admit that my crystal ball, like everybody else's, is cracked. If I could predict precisely, I would have started predicting the stock market and would now be living with a bunch of young women on Bora Bora, having bought it.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Crystals, Balls, Bora Bora

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.

  Liza Johnson

  College, Expectations, May

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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