Young Women Quotes - Page 24

• Young women that would not be thought coquettish, and old men that would not be ridiculous, should never talk of love, as if they had any concern in it.

  Francois Alexandre Frederic, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  Men, Ridiculous, Should

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• The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.

  Judy Horacek

  Lines, Grumpy, Young

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• There's this whole problem of trafficking, which has gotten worse in the economic downturn, which disproportionately affects young women, but also affects some young men who are sold into bondage, into basically servitude for indebted work that they can often never escape from.

  William J. Clinton

  Men, Problem, Economic

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• True feminine beauty is not a complicated formula involving hundreds of rules to remember. It is not something that requires spending two years at finishing school or being groomed as a beauty pageant queen. It is the natural byproduct of a young woman who has emptied herself, given up her own life, and allowed God's Spirit complete access to every dimension of her inner and outer life.

  Leslie Ludy

  Queens, School, Two

  Leslie Ludy (2010). “The Lost Art of True Beauty: The Set-Apart Girl's Guide to Feminine Grace”, p.23, Harvest House Publishers

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• A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but Ill stop short of calling it foolish.

  Claire Cameron

  Hiking, Phones, Cells

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• Young men especially - I don't know if young women feel much the same - but young men think they are immortal, automatically. They have no idea of time because they have so much energy and I was like that.

  Clive James

  Men, Thinking, Ideas

  "Clive James on turning his ‘last time on earth’ into a writing wellspring". Interview with Ellen Rolfes, www.pbs.org. December 3, 2013.

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• The young woman who brought me acquainted with Captain Murderer had a fiendish enjoyment of my terrors, and used to begin, I remember - as a sort of introductory overture - by clawing the air with both hands, and uttering a long low hollow groan. So acutely did I suffer from this ceremony in combination with this infernal Captain, that I sometimes used to plead I thought I was hardly strong enough and old enough to hear the story again just yet.

  Charles Dickens

  Strong, Air, Hands

  Charles Dickens (2009). “The Complete Works of Charles Dickens: The Uncommercial Traveller”, p.148, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Sexuality is such a taboo thing. I think it should be more out in the open, especially with young women. I think it's okay for them to explore their sexuality, as long as they own it and it's portrayed in the right way.

  Evan Rachel Wood

  Thinking, Long, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• There are many ways to be influential. You can work for politicians or in government and make a difference. And for young women who are interested in running for office, you just have to decide you're going to follow Eleanor Roosevelt's maxim about growing skin as thick as the hide of a rhinoceros, and you have to be incredibly well-prepared - better prepared [than a man], actually - and you have to figure out how you're going to present yourself, and you have to have a support group around you, because it can be really a brutal experience.

  Hillary Clinton

  Running, Men, Differences

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• ... when the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.

  Charles Dickens

  Doors, Hands, Fire

  Charles Dickens (2013). “A Christmas Treasury”, p.110, Simon and Schuster

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• I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear “no,” and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.

  Gavin de Becker

  School, Men, Law

  Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.228, Dell

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• That is supposed to be the rallying cry of women in the age of AIDS: no condom, no sex. But the dirty little secret is that the rallying cry is a whisper.... The great unspoken on the heterosexual AIDS front has been how behavior is still determined by the old psychosexual minuet of the sexes, the lack of responsibility in young men and of assertiveness in young women.

  Anna Quindlen

  Sex, Dirty, Responsibility

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• Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Elderly, Wish

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• All one's life as a young woman one is on show, a focus of attention, people notice you. You set yourself up to being noticed and admired. And then, not expecting it, you become middle-aged and anonymous.

  Doris Lessing

  Women, People, Focus

  "An Uncommon Scold". Book by Abby Adams, 1989.

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• ... if young women have a problem, it's only that they think there's no problem.

  Gloria Steinem

  Thinking, Youth, Problem

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

  Edwina Currie

  Giving, Advice, Pieces

  The Observer 'Sayings of the Week', 3 April (1988)

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• Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.

  Bettie Page

  Shells, Young

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours... better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Men, Our Generation, Stronger

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• Liberman said to me, 'I must cut back on the work you do for Vogue. The editors don't like it. They say the photographs burn on the page . After some years, I began to understand that what they wanted of me was simply a nice, sweet, clean-looking image of a lovely young woman.

  Irving Penn

  Love, Sweet, Nice

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• There's such an array of brilliant roles for young women. You read all these amazing young women going through different stages in their life - different stages, different fascinations, different textualities, different friendships.

  Juno Temple

  Fascination, Different, Roles

  "Sundance Q&A: Juno Temple Is Blowing Up". Interview with Simon Abrams, www.esquire.com. January 17, 2013.

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• To me it seems that too many young women of this time share the same creed. 'Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.' How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?

  Criss Jami

  Princess, Fighting, Live Laugh Love

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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• When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.

  Julie Zeilinger

  Mean, Media, Play

  "Smart Girls Conference 2014: Inspiring Girls to be Bold Change-Makers" by Katy Ma, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 21, 2014.

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• You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.

  Elaine S. Dalton

  Believe, Destiny, World

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• I'm actually just playing honest, whole young women.

  Ellen Page

  Honest, Young, Whole

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• I believe there need to be women visual in our every day landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it's acceptable or not...I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I'd like to change that, change the emphasis of what's important when looking at a woman.

  Margaret Kilgallen

  Beautiful, Smart, Believe

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