Young Women Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• 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'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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• A young woman who knows and loves the Book of Mormon, who has read it several times, who has an abiding testimony of its truthfulness, and who applies its teachings will be able to stand against the wiles of the devil and will be a mighty tool in the hands of the Lord.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Teaching, Hands

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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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• Archer was too intelligent to think that a young woman like Ellen Olenska would necessarily recoil from everything that reminded her of her past. She might believe herself wholly in revolt against it; but what had charmed her in it would still charm her even though it were against her will.

  Edith Wharton

  Believe, Archer, Intelligent

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.2047, Delphi Classics

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• Young women from a very young age are taught that life will be easier if you can just turn on the charming smile and say very little and be complacent and docile and sweet.

  Amber Heard

  Sweet, Charming Smile, Age

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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