Top 190 Young Women Quotes

Self-esteem is such a challenging issue for young women.

My inbox is now bulging with touching emails from young women scientists who have been kind enough to write and thank me for inspiring them and helping them on their way. It has also been of great comfort to me to see many women at the top of science testifying for my record in supporting women scientists.

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.

As an OB-GYN physician, I understand the importance of protecting Americans from sexually transmitted diseases, and I applaud the development of an HPV vaccine. But for states to mandate vaccination for young women is both unprecedented and unacceptable.

Being a ‘Lady’ used to be something to which all young women aspired.

To any young women out there who might be thinking about taking up darts, I would just say, ‘Go for it.’

There seems to be great roles for women, and it’s not necessarily – you don’t have to be young women. Suddenly, we’re realizing that, generally, women are interesting, and they can also be weird and crazy and mean.

All the Shakespeare parts are for young women, mostly.

If we want little girls and young women and people of color to see they have a place in the tech world, it’s up to us to make that place for them.

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It’s about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it’s worth getting your teeth into.

The feminist movement is not about success for women. It is about treating women as victims and about telling women that you can’t succeed because society is unfair to you, and I think that’s a very unfortunate idea to put in the minds of young women because I believe women can do whatever they want.

Today Miss World is all about young women who bring about a global change.

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.

I think the rules will change and I think more and more young women are going to decide that having a family and taking care of a home is not a bad choice, but how do we subsidize it – not necessarily European-style socialism. It’ll have to be a new more creative, dynamic and local solution.

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

I spent most of my 20s working as an actor. I started writing and directing because I was frustrated with the types of roles that were available to young women.

I wanna be one of those people that young women look up to.

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.

I do think it’s important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. People don’t really look like that.

The reason I wrote ‘I’m Too Young for This!’ is to spare young women the suffering of hormonal loss – and it is true suffering. You can’t sleep, you gain weight for no reason, you bloat for no reason, your moods are altered, and your sex drive is diminished.

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.

It seems to me quite often that the journeys of young women are more moving because they are hemmed in more, and dramatically it’s more interesting to think about and write about people whose lives are circumscribed in some way.

I wanted to write a sci-fi story that would appeal to young women. Loads of girls like sci-fi, but it’s more culturally associated with guys.

I don’t see any reason why young women shouldn’t relate to me and have that connection with my music.

Often we women are risk averse. I needed the push. Now, more than ever, young women need more seasoned women to provide that encouragement, to take a risk, to go for it. Once a glass ceiling is broken, it stays broken.

I have spent a lifetime trying to share what it has meant to be a woman first in the world of sports so that other young women have a chance to reach their dreams.

I’ve just always felt it’s an incredibly empowering thing, particularly for young women, to capitalize on their coordination and their strength. It’s a very empowering thing to feel strong in your body.

I want to reach young women and to get them involved in the mission of the YWCA, economic empowerment of women and girls, and ending racism.

I love the action that I’m able to do. I grew up in Maine, outdoors and playing with the boys and shooting skeet. I have my girly side, too. But, I do like playing the strong female roles, especially now with something as simple as Twitter, where you’ve got young women following you.

When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write.

I am so saddened and grossed out by young women who look like creepy, old aliens because of their new Barbie noses and lips. Is that a smile or a grimace?

I’m stunned at the amount of young women who get in touch with me every single day, trying to become somebody like me. As a teenager, I would never have done that. And I was someone who was interested in politics. But I wouldn’t have emailed the local MP.

I don’t ever want young women to look at me and feel any kind of pressure to look or dress like me.

When I think of the limitless potential my young daughters, Grace and Brynn, will have as they grow into young women, I want my girls’ generation to remember the strength, determination, and struggles of the women who came before them and paved the way.

We try to push such crazy ideals onto young women: the Hollywood version of what they should look like, what they should do, and the kind of Prince Charming they should be looking for. We should just be proud of who we are, because we can’t be anybody else. So what’s the point of trying?

My goal is to send a message to Muslim women and young women everywhere that it’s okay to break stereotypes and be yourself.

It’s double standards when you’re young women. When we started out it was almost like, ‘This is your lane, stay in your lane. You’re the faces and the name.’ We’re not. We’re the brand.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter’s age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

There are so many young women who throw their talent away.

I want to inspire other young women of color and empower them. I want them to know that they can do and be anything they dream of.

I want all women – teens, young women, older women, pregnant women, ageing women – to love and accept themselves.

I want young women to see my name on ‘Avengers Assembled’ and to know that there are women who write mainstream superhero comics, and if it is something that interests them, it can be done.

What keeps me up at night? Sometimes it’s day-to-day work stuff. And a lot of the times, it’s, ‘Am I making the wrong decisions in terms of reaching young women?’

This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes – it liberates young women to pursue married men.

There are so many young women who tip over into being a facsimile: they don’t really inhabit their lives or their bodies.

Feminism is very much a part of a lot of my student’s lives, but they’re not going to march about it or take a public political stance. And I think more and more young women are claiming that they’re not feminists – even though they are.

I’m so grateful to have been able to go to the world and tell the story of South African women and South African children. As I stood there for Miss Universe, I spoke about leadership and I spoke about empowering young women and young boys as well.

To this day, I have an open door policy. I seek out interns and young women and try to help them. Women mentors were important to me, and I want to do that for others.

Married at 23, a mother at 24, and blindsided by divorce at 28, I found myself struggling, like many young women I meet today, to strike a balance between my personal life and my career.

I get so much mail from young women saying that they are so insecure when they look at me, but they don’t realize all of the flaws that I have.

Everyone in Hollywood is seeking fame and fortune; it’s in the water here. Everyone from young women to old men – they all want it.

I will never understand how so many young women can go out in the freezing cold wearing so little clothing.