Words matter. These are the best Young Woman Quotes from famous people such as Dorothy L. Sayers, Amanda de Cadenet, Marlo Thomas, Paul Auster, Phyllis Smith, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
The power that you have as a young woman, unless you have great self-esteem, is largely based on how the rest of the world reacts to you. And so it’s kind of a superficial confidence that you have, you know?
It’s because it was at a time when women didn’t have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it.
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.
I had one young man tell me he wished I was his mom. Another young woman told me that every time she watched ‘The Office,’ I reminded her of her mother, who had just passed away a year ago, and that every time she saw me she felt as if she had a piece of her mom still with her.
As a young woman, I was fortunate to have the leadership of Jeanette Hayner, the courage of Jennifer Dunn, the faith of Elisabeth Elliot, and the indomitable spirit of Margaret Thatcher to guide and motivate me.
I was incredibly voluptuous, and it was frustrating as a young woman to not find things that fit well and made me feel celebratory of my body.
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.
When you’re growing up as a young woman, you develop all of these insecurities, and then there’s boys and all of that stuff on top of that.
Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, ‘Just wait.’
‘Mandie and the Secret Tunnel’ – the book and now the movie – pits a very young woman against forces she cannot control and events she cannot possibly know about. She’s in way over her head, and you’re pulling for her from the opening scene.
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.
Mine is a story about a teenage single mother who struggled to keep her young family afloat. It’s a story about a young woman who was given a precious opportunity to work her way up in the world. It’s a story about resiliency, and sacrifice, and perseverance. And you’re damn right it’s a true story.
I love the freedom of voice-over and the ability to play multiple characters I could never play in real life: a hot young woman, a little boy.
I’ve always been interested in how things change, in social change. I was involved in the animal rights movement as a young woman, I’ve been involved in thinking about gender and issues around racism and so on.
When I first started getting into the business, a young woman in a music game that was mostly men, I did feel inadequate.
Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.
But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film’s about. A very straightforward young woman who’s very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of.
It’s easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook.
Modern romance novels tell a young woman that she can be successful, useful, and valuable on her own; that there are men who will respect her and treat her well; and that such men are worth waiting for.
I have a message for any young woman who is thinking about running for office and has ever attended a costume party… or done anything stupid on camera. Run for office. Fight for this country.
Age becomes reality when you hear someone refer to that attractive young woman standing next to the woman in the green dress, and you find that you’re the one in the green dress.
Just like every young woman, I love getting all glam for the holidays.
I can tell you that Rey is an incredibly brave young woman who starts off alone and encounters Finn, and they go on an amazing adventure, and she makes relationships she never could have imagined, and she sees things she never could have imagined.
A young woman hiking alone in the mountains sounds dangerous. In the pre-cell phone era maybe it was, but I’ll stop short of calling it foolish.
I really identified with Pocahontas’ struggles as a young woman trying to identify herself in a modern, changing world and trying to stay true to her culture and heritage.
I’ve grown not only as an actor but as a young woman. I find myself to be more confident and being more open about self-love. I’m still learning how to take up space and speak out when needed, but that’s a new thing for me and I’m loving it.
I was raised by women. I have my parents, but I have two older sisters and I would learn from them about what is a female and what is a girl and what is an adolescent and what is a young woman and I was very close to them.
My mother was a dominant force in our family. And I always saw her as the leader. And that was great for me as a young woman, because I never saw that women had to be dominated by men.
I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided to be born again and so should I. I told her I was glad for her, but I hadn’t used up being born the first time.
Being taken seriously as a young woman is the biggest hurdle as I grow older.
I consider myself incredibly lucky to live and work in places like Canada and the U.S. where polio no longer threatens to rob the livelihoods of innocent children. As a young woman, I stand behind the women around the globe who are leading the charge against polio and working relentlessly to achieve a polio-free world.
As a young woman, I was always interested in lobbying. I thought to find a cause you’re passionate about, to really work on behalf of that cause, work on lobbying your state legislatures or your federal legislatures, that was of interest to me.
I love seeing a young woman embrace who she is.
Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements.
I kind of stumbled on the material for ‘An Education’ and thought it would make a good movie, and one of the things that came out of that, for me, was that I learned that if you write a big part for a girl or a young woman, you get the opportunity to work with the best talent in the world.
I feel very lucky to have had the opportunity to bring Peter Morgan’s Princess Elizabeth to life; she is a gift of a role and a challenge I am so grateful for – a young woman trying to navigate a path through an extraordinary situation.
I suffer from depression and anxiety, and having a show and having a character that portrays a young woman who is dealing with that and the consequences of it – how it affects her friendships and her relationships with her mom and her sister – it’s beautiful to see that.
I first thought about becoming a writer after the age of 30, which is rather late, I’d say. In my 20s, I wasn’t especially good at anything, and I didn’t have a lot of experiences. I was just a young woman without a good job.
Each faithful young woman in the Church proclaims that individual worth is one of her most cherished values.
There’s no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that’s really great.
I like a little bit of revolution. I think it’s a very good hobby for a young woman. Better than squash.
As a relatively young woman – I’m 33 – I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I’m elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week.
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.
In India, it’s a matter of fact that a girl child is seen as a liability. Probably the only expectation is that you grow up to a presentable young woman who can get a decent spouse.
As a young woman, I was disturbed by the fact that there was no imagery that truly expressed the experience of a young woman and the challenges and turbulence we go through. All we had were teenage magazines like ‘Cosmopolitan,’ which are very one-sided and show an objectified view of women.
A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.
You know, when you make something in live-action, you make it real. And when you are inspired by and determined to honor the original – the most original version of the ‘Mulan’ story – then you have to acknowledge that this is a story about a young woman who disguises herself as a man and goes to war.
Grace Portolesi is a strong, assertive passionate young woman and she is precisely the sort of person I want in my cabinet and she will have a senior role.
A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.
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.
I have to say, as a young woman of color, and this may sound controversial, in sci-fi, anything is possible. In sci-fi I can belong to the military. In sci-fi I can have an interracial love affair; I can be a revolutionary.
The line between angry young woman and grumpy old lady is very fine.
I love princesses. And I think Cinderella is very strong. She’s a young woman thinking outside of her environment, outside of her current situation, and she is choosing to believe that all is possible for her. And I think that is so admirable.
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.
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.
A very beautiful young woman once asked me to sign her breasts. That was back when I was a hip young thing – it’s been all downhill since then.
As a young woman, I just think there’s something really confident and empowering about being able to flirt back.
When I came back to Britain, I realized that I was no longer a very young woman. I had to meet my new consciousness, my new age, with roles that reflected it somewhat.
Gonpo Tso was born a princess. As a young woman, she dressed in fur-trimmed robes with fat ropes of coral beads strung around her neck. She lived in an adobe castle on the edge of the Tibetan plateau with a reception room large enough to accommodate the thousand Buddhist monks who once paid tribute to her father.
Being a young woman in Hollywood is intimidating.
Not a day goes past when I don’t think how grateful I am I survived, that I recovered and that I feel like a young woman again.
I tell every young woman who asks me, be very careful about your choice of spouse. If you don’t have a supportive spouse, it will be difficult to take on so many things.
I was incredibly inspired by Oprah Winfrey as a young woman.
We see many sides of her, beyond the ‘Ballad of Mulan.’ We see her as a human being, as a girl, as a young woman. Everybody admires her as a warrior but is there a fragile side to her? Will she sometimes hesitate or be afraid, but still choose to carry on? Yes, and we see that.
Much-derided chick lit, chick flicks, and chick magazines have left ambitious women in a bind. Why is it that I, a young woman, can read ‘GQ,’ enjoy ‘Fight Club,’ and subscribe to ‘Thrillist,’ while the idea of a guy doing the same with ‘Glamour,’ ’27 Dresses’ and ‘Daily Candy’ is nearly unheard of?
Being a young woman, fashion is super important, and it’s just fun.
As a young woman, my own experience of looking at myself in the mirror is something that’s plagued me in lots of ways.
The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.
Since woman’s rights have come up a young woman is better able to fight her own battle.
When people watch me on TV, they see part of my life. I wanted to let them know the real me behind the scenes. The child who was a concert violinist from the age of six. The young woman who took on the challenge to compete in the Miss America pageant. The television journalist for twenty-five years.
I love ‘Girls.’ The writing is so clever. I think Lena Dunham is a genius. I can’t believe she writes it, directs it and stars in it. It’s really exciting that a young woman has been able to achieve all of that.
A strong and dedicated mentor can help a young woman get her foot in the door, get a promotion and get a raise.
Nowhere have I felt so much awesome responsibility than when teaching my daughter that there is no wrong way to be herself – to be a young woman, whatever her size.
I’m not totally innocent, and I do date. But as a young woman, I also demand respect.
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.
‘Molly’s Game’ was a true story about a remarkable young woman named Molly Bloom. She was this close to going to the Olympics; she was ranked third in North America in women’s moguls.
One day I was in Starbucks going through one of my books on accounting, and this beautiful young woman came up to me and said, ‘My accounting book is different from yours.’ Her name was Joyce, she had a background in finance and administration and ran a surgery center. Within a short time, we were married.
I’m a young woman, and I’m growing up and trying to do it in a way I feel comfortable with.
If you build a career on being a beautiful young woman, that’s going to be a short career. I have to establish I can act. I don’t want to have to visit the plastic surgeon every two years.
‘Mandie and the Secret Tunnel’ – the book and now the movie – pits a very young woman against forces she cannot control and events she cannot possibly know about. She’s in way over her head, and you’re pulling for her from the opening scene.
I can’t think of a more life-changing procedure for a young woman than an abortion.
As a model, I feel a great responsibility, and I understand how an image can make a young woman feel.
I don’t care what people think about me. I care what people think about my work. As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others’ happiness and even their values before my own.
I read ‘The Bell Jar’ as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her – looks, talent, opportunity, with her ‘whole life ahead of her,’ yadda, yadda, yadda – yet was spiraling into misery.
As a black woman, I’ve always had to work hard to earn my respect as a musician – and as a young woman, too. As a writer, in certain sessions or certain rooms people think, ‘Who’s kid is this? Who’s this little girl?’ I’ve had to prove myself.
I think sometimes writers can get themselves into trouble trying to exert a totally controlled and super-knowing tone. This kind of knowingness is not the most promising tone to be sustained throughout a novel, to have a young woman who understands everybody and is always reading a room perfectly.
I guess 16, 17, 18, that whole period was a dark time for me. I guess it was a hormonal thing, going through all those changes as a young woman, learning who you are and being comfortable with yourself, and also, which goes along with that, boys. It was definitely an unhappy, ‘Who am I?’ period. ‘Who am I gonna be?’
There are quite a lot of YouTube clips of me that have gone viral. One that I think of is of a young woman at a lecture I was giving – she came from Liberty University, which is a ludicrous religious institution. She said, ‘What if you are wrong?’ and I answered that rather briefly, and that’s gone viral.
Recently I read the stories I wrote in my early 20s, to put in a volume. And here is this brittle young woman, writing about marriage as, not the worst thing, but the most boring thing that could happen to a person. Now I think I was wrong. I like to be proven wrong.
It’s a razor’s edge, a romance with an old man and a young woman.
What used to be called ‘good manners’ is now regarded as mere affectation. Open a door for a young woman, and she’s likely to call security.
I’m going to be like Benjamin Button; I’m just going to grow younger. I will probably be happy, fat, with kids and looking back and thinking, ‘I was such a angry young woman.’
There are times when the only people you spend time with are the people in your team. That’s hard, because I think, ‘I’m a girl. I want to hang out with other girls. I just want to be a normal young woman.’
I’m in charge of raising a young woman one day, to be a mother and hopefully a wife.
I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different – such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour – but different in some significant way.
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He was the modern Moses who had talked with God apart and could interpret Him to us.
Oh my god, this makes me laugh so much: I once saw this young woman fall in a bar in Chicago, and she got up and she’s like, ‘These dang Sketcher Shape-ups!’
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can’t accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.
As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
What I’ve learned about being trans in transition is just that sometimes good things don’t happen when you try to rush things. Just as a young girl grows into a young woman, you know, we transition; we grow into our bodies the same way.
Being a young woman is difficult enough, but add to that the pressures of Hollywood’s spotlight, and you have a lot to navigate.
A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater.
Young women look at me and think, ‘She’s really confident. She has always had it figured out,’ but actually, I really, really haven’t. That has come over time as I became a young woman.
‘The Summer I Turned Pretty’ is about how, as a young woman, everyone gets that moment of being in bloom, but nobody really appreciates it.
No time to marry, no time to settle down; I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done runnin’ around.
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!
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.
I think being a young woman is a strength.
