Young Women Quotes - Page 2

• It was mild monsters like these that made Jack the Ripper go after young women, she decided: who could tolerate yielding the world to someone who behaved as if she had given birth to the very world herself?

  Gregory Maguire

  Monsters, World, Birth

  Gregory Maguire (2009). “Lost: A Novel”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• My dear young women, with all my heart I urge you not to look to contemporary culture for your role models and mentors. Please look to your faithful mothers for a pattern to follow. Model yourselves after them, not after celebrities whose standards are not the Lord's standards and whose values may not reflect an eternal perspective. Look to your mother.

  M. Russell Ballard

  Mother, Heart, Role Models

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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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• 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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• 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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• A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Fashion, Thinking

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

  Lauren Conrad

  Children, Needs, Charity

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• I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don't respect.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Bullying, Children, Bumps

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• I didn't appreciate the young woman that I was, or my young beauty, because I was so obsessed with the fact that I felt fat. It's never good to add to anybody else's suffering. It's an important topic to really get the gravity and the importance of - dealing with dignity.

  Margaret Cho

  Appreciate, Suffering, Important

  "'Drop Dead Diva' Q&A: Brooke Elliott and Margaret Cho on how TV -- and comedy -- affect women's body image". Interview with Mandi Bierly, ew.com. June 6, 2010.

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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'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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• Virginity is such a personal thing. You can't judge anyone on it. A lot of young women feel they want to save themselves for the man who they think they'll love forever.

  Joyce Brothers

  Men, Thinking, Judging

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• I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.

  Tyra Banks

  Mother, Thinking, Fats

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• There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.

  Roger Ebert

  Summer, Autumn, Night

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• I had used eclectic therapy and behavior therapy on myself at the age of 19 to get over my fear of public speaking and of approaching young women in public.

  Albert Ellis

  Age, Eclectic Style, Public Speaking

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• Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.

  Helen Fisher

  School, College, Men

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.

  Alicia Keys

  Men, Games, Firsts

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• What's really sad is that so many young women between the ages of 16 and 25 are ignorant and they already believe that women get the same pay as men. They don't even really understand that equality hasn't happened with the pay force.

  Bell Hooks

  Believe, Men, Ignorant

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• Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.

  Carolina Herrera

  Regret, Want, Young

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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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• Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.

  Paul Auster

  Girl, New York, Nice

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