Young Women Quotes - Page 23

• I've never had a problem with age; my feelings and emotions are still like those of a young woman. Thank God, I can still be surprised and excited, and I can still dream. I think that's something no one should stop doing, because it's what keeps you young!

  Maria Conchita Alonso

  Dream, Thinking, Feelings

  "Exclusive: Maria Conchita Alonso's Hollywood Drama". Interview with Monica Herrera, www.latina.com. April 10, 2008.

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• I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal, and they asked if I was doomed to explore forever the emotional misfortunes of the super-sexed modern young woman. And so, to break away from the pattern, I wanted to do "The Gorgeous Hussy". Selznick laughed at me. 'You can't do a costume picture. You're too modern.' But I begged and begged and begged, and so they let me do it. I was totally miscast.

  Joan Crawford

  Emotional, Forever, Criticism

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I hope I can make a show that will inspire a whole other generation of young women and girls to say, "I can do a show like that."

  Amanda de Cadenet

  Girl, Inspire, Generations

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• I truly believe a woman's weight is a political issue, and if one young woman out there can see me and not feel crummy about herself, that's a good thing.

  Janeane Garofalo

  Believe, Issues, Political

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• We know how unhealthy it is. I know what happens, though - young women start smoking because they don't think they're really going to keep smoking.

  Laura Bush

  Thinking, Smoking, Young

  "Laura Bush Wants to Save Your Life". Glamour Interview, www.glamour.com. January 3, 2008.

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• I think I was a feminist before the word was invented. By the time I came across feminist books by American or European writers, I realised that there was an articulate way or a language to express all these feelings that I had had for years and years and so I became a raging feminist as a young woman.

  Andrew Denton

  Book, Thinking, Years

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• I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.

  Gloria Steinem

  Moving, College, Ideas

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• As a young woman, I attended Witwatersrand University in Johannesburg, South Africa, which was then not segregated. But I witnessed the weight of Apartheid everywhere around me.

  Teresa Heinz

  Weight, Johannesburg, Young

  Teresa Heinz's address to the Democratic National Convention at the FleetCenter in Boston, www.washingtonpost.com. July 27, 2004.

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• Family life in Western society since the time of the Old Testament has been a struggle to maintain patriarchy, male domination, and double standards in the face of a natural drift towards monogamous bonding. Young men have been called upon to prove their masculinity by their willingness to die in warfare, and young women have been called upon to prove their femininity by their willingness to die for their man. Women have been asked to appear small, dumb, and helpless so men would feel big and strong, brave, and clever. It's been a trick.

  Frank Pittman

  Strong, Clever, Struggle

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• The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Distance, Home, College

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• Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework.

  Crystal Eastman

  Business, Men, Public Opinion

  Crystal Eastman (1978). “Crystal Eastman on Women and Revolution”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• With five to ten hundred pure-minded young women threading the streets of the village every evening unattended, vice must slink away, like frost before the rising sun.

  Anna Julia Cooper

  Rose, Vices, Frost

  Anna Julia Cooper (2016). “A Voice from the South”, p.24, Courier Dover Publications

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• Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical notion. Showing a young woman who is honest about what she is experiencing and letting us into her most intimate, darkest thoughts, all of that is just promoting something that we don't get to see about young women.

  Marielle Heller

  Real, Body, Honest

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Incentivizing more clinics to incentivize the young women, to may or may not want to have an abortion to say, you know what, if we talk her into an abortion, we'll be able to sell it for 75 bucks up to 300 bucks.

  Eric Bolling

  Abortion, What If, May

  "Hollywood weighs in on Iran nuclear deal". "The Five" with Greg Gutfeld, Kimberly Guilfoyle, Julie Roginsky, Eric Bolling and Dana Perino, www.foxnews.com. July 29, 2015.

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• ... it is more than petty treason to the Republic, to call a free citizen a servant. The whole class of young women, whose bread depends upon their labour, are taught to believe that the most abject poverty is preferable to domestic service. Hundreds of half-naked girls work in the paper-mills, or in any other manufactory, for less than half the wages they would receive in service; but they think their equality is compromised by the latter, and nothing but the wish to obtain some particular article of finery will ever induce them to submit to it.

  Frances Trollope

  Girl, Believe, Thinking

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• The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.

  M. E. W. Sherwood

  Future, Intellectual, Academia

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• Elderly men who are popular with young women usually lack wisdom.

  Nachman of Breslov

  Men, Elderly, Young

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• Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife's thrift, and that woman's life has no other aim.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Marriage, Education, Women

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2009). “Nature and Other Essays”, p.103, Courier Corporation

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• There was danger at times that women might not be judged by the highest standards, but more leniently because of their sex. "She is a remarkably good chemist--for a woman," you might hear a man say. It seemed to me essential, if the ablest young women scholars were to achieve the best work of which they were capable, that they should be held to the most rigorous standards. ...To advance, a woman must do at least as good work as her male colleagues, usually better.

  Virginia Gildersleeve

  Sex, Men, Males

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• It's important for young women and men coming out of the fashion schools to think seriously before starting their own collections.

  Anna Wintour

  Fashion, School, Men

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• Mr. Speaker, at a time when the nation is again confronted with necessity for calling its young men into service in the interestsof National Security, I cannot see the wisdom of denying our young women the opportunity to serve their country.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Country, Women, Opportunity

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• The best advice I can give to any young man or young woman upon graduation from school can be summed up in exactly eight words, and they are-be honest with yourself and tell the truth.

  James Farley

  School, Men, Eight

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• ... the prevalent custom of educating young women only for marriage, and not for the duties and responsibilities consequent on marriage--only for appendages and dead weights to husbands--of bringing them up without an occupation, profession, or employment, and thus leaving them dependent on anyone but themselves--is an enormous evil, and an unpardonable sin.

  Harriot Kezia Hunt

  Marriage, Husband, Responsibility

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• Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.

  Mary Pipher

  Girl, Being Yourself, Long

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• All things being equal, I would choose a woman over a man in order to even the balance of power, to insinuate a different perspective into the process, to give young women something to shoot for and someone to look up to. But all things are rarely equal.

  Anna Quindlen

  Men, Order, Careers

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