Young Women Quotes - Page 7

• I'm not going to dinner with somebody who eats like a bird, nor do I want to eat like a bird. But its weird: In our business, I'm a size 2 and considered curvy. Its important to remind young women, 'Listen, even skinny girls have cellulite, even Halle Berry has cellulite, and what you see in photos isn't totally real.'

  Sophia Bush

  Girl, Real, Bird

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• A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.

  Tony Campolo

  Christian, Spiritual, School

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• I think anorexia is a metaphor. It is a young woman's statement that she will become what the culture asks of its women, which is that they be thin and nonthreatening. Anorexia signifies that a young woman is so delicate that, like the women of China with their tiny broken feet, she needs a man to shelter and protect her from a world she cannot handle. Anorexic women signal with their bodies "I will take up only a small amount of space. I won't get in the way." They signal "I won't be intimidating or threatening." (Who is afraid of a seventy-pound adult?)

  Mary Pipher

  Men, Thinking, Feet

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• It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.

  Anton Chekhov

  Writing, Literature, Easier

  Letter to A. S. Suvorin, January 2, 1894.

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• I hope that each of you girls will become an individual of significant worth and a person of virtue so that your contributions are maintained in both human and eternal terms.

  James E. Faust

  Girl, Virtue, Individual

  "A Message to My Granddaughters". James E. Faust's speech at the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City, Utah, www.lds.org. February 12, 1985.

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• I realize what a strange in-between place I am in. The Young Woman inside has turned to go, but the Old Woman has not shown up.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Strange, Realizing, Young

  Sue Monk Kidd, Ann Kidd Taylor (2009). “Traveling with Pomegranates: A Mother and Daughter Journey to the Sacred Places of Greece, Turkey, and France”, p.96, Penguin

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• A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She may indeed discover that she spends all her waking hours with her fellow to the exclusion of every other friend or family member. This is understandable, but wholly unacceptable, to society.

  Anna Godbersen

  Husband, May, Waking

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “Envy”, p.26, Harper Collins

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• My playing had called to another human being at last. Surely, she could be no other than my own true love. Slowly, I got to my feet. Speak to me, I thought. And as if she'd heard me, the young woman's lips parted and she spoke thus: Have you lost your mind?

  Cameron Dokey

  Feet, Mind, Lips

  Cameron Dokey (2013). “Kissed: Belle; Sunlight and Shadow; Winter's Child”, p.353, Simon and Schuster

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• For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Couple, Stories, Saws

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• . . . She was obsessed with clothes and status, how she never gave a thought to being responsible for her own actions, or even what she might do for anyone else-making her the ultimate example of all that was wrong and misguided about young women today.

  Candace Bushnell

  Clothes, Example, Might

  Candace Bushnell (2008). “One Fifth Avenue”, p.390, Hachette UK

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• When you are 18, 19, 20, you're used to being photographed all the time, in a certain way. So, the narcissism becomes almost out of control. And the way that young women are photographed, they become addicted to this feedback of the image.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Way, Narcissism, Feedback

  "Reluctant pin-up: Marianne Faithfull reveals how she was damaged by her early brush with fame" by Rachel Shields, www.independent.co.uk. October 25, 2009.

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• Growing up, I looked up to major league baseball players, and now these young women have amazing, incredible women all across the board, from swimming to gymnastics to softball to basketball.

  Jennie Finch

  Inspirational, Basketball, Softball

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• I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.

  Emily Yoffe

  Husband, Gay, Men

  Source: www.slate.com

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• When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Successful, Young

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 18, 2010

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• The root cause of the looming energy problem - and the key to easing environmental, economic and religious tensions while improving public health - is to address the unending, and unequal, growth of the human population. And the one proven way to reduce fertility rates is to empower young women by educating them.

  Lawrence M. Krauss

  Religious, Keys, Roots

  "How Women Can Save the Planet". The Scientific American Article, www.scientificamerican.com. November 1, 2009.

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• I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

  Padma Lakshmi

  People, Want, Young

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• No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Humble

  William Law (2013). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life”, p.233, Courier Corporation

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• I like the feeling that I'm giving young women self-confidence. It sounds so cliched, but it can be very moving.

  Shirley Manson

  Moving, Self Confidence, Giving

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• At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood.

  Joyce Maynard

  Home, Stories, Redemption

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• I'm always amazed when young women who are having babies want their husbands to watch the babies come out. I would never allow anything like that.

  Jeanne Moreau

  Baby, Husband, Watches

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• Young women today often have very little appreciation for the real battles that took place to get women where they are today in this country. I don't know how much history young women today know about those battles.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Country, Appreciation, Real

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• To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.

  Talib Kweli

  Song, Hurt, Writing

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• Crunk Feminist Collective, I think, is a noble endeavor, and any group of young women coming together to uplift women, especially being run by women of color, I have no choice but to support that. But they're dead wrong on me.

  Talib Kweli

  Uplifting, Running, Thinking

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• When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Teenage, Possibility

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• When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.

  Barbara Hamby

  Beautiful, Thinking, Choices

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