“I've always been a creative speller and never achieved good grades in school. I graduated from high school but didn't have the opportunity to attend college, so I did what young women my age did at the time - I married.” AgeSchoolYoungOpportunityCreativeCollegeMarriedHigh SchoolGradesYoung WomenGrades In SchoolGood Grades Author:Debbie Macomber
“We guided our children. We supported them. We were there for them. But once you start going through your list of schools that present a potential opportunity, a young man or a young woman has to be happy with their decision. If they are unhappy, then their whole four years of college are going to be some of the most miserable memories of their lifetime.” IfsMenYearsChildrenWholeSchoolYoungOpportunityMemoriesDecisionFourCollegeOur ChildrenLifetimeListsUnhappyMiserableYoung ManFour YearsYoung Women Author:Craig Biggio
“Now you ask a group of young women on the college campus, 'How many of you are feminists?' Very few will raise their hands because young women don't want to be associated with it anymore because they know it means male-bashing, it means being a victim, and it means being bitter and angry.” KnowsWantMeanHandsYoungAsksGroupsCollegeRaisesVictimAngryMalesFeministBitterYoung WomenCampusCollege Campus Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“The fetish of the great university, of expensive colleges for young women, is too often simply a fetish. It is not based on a genuine desire for learning. Education today need not be sought at any great distance. It is largely compounded of two things, of a certain snobbishness on the part of parents, and of escape from home on the part of youth. And to those who must earn quickly it is often sheer waste of time. Very few colleges prepare their students for any special work.” NeedsTwoHomeTodayYoungDesireCertainParentSpecialYouthStudentsCollegeWasteDistanceUniversityGenuineTwo ThingsExpensiveWasting TimeSheerYoung WomenAcademiaFetishSnobbishnessEducation Today Author:Mary Roberts Rinehart
“I spend a lot of time on college campuses, and I don't quite understand where the idea comes from that young women are not moving forward. In fact, statistically, if you look at the public opinion polls, young women are much more supportive of feminism and feminist issues than older women are.” IfsLooksIdeasFactsMovingYoungOpinionIssuesFeminismCollegeFeministMoving ForwardYoung WomenSupportivePublic OpinionPollsCampusOlder WomenCollege CampusOpinion Polls Author:Gloria Steinem
“Because I also teach college, I am around a lot of young women who are just starting out, and I often see them coming up against certain expectations that may be more gender-specific.” MayYoungCertainTeachCollegeExpectationsStartingGenderYoung WomenStarting Out Author:Liza Johnson
“On the river path in Boston beauty was most expressed as youth and intelligence. That made sense; sixty degree-giving institutions, some three hundred thousand students; that meant at least one hundred fifty thousand more nubile young women than demographics would ordinarily suggest. Maybe that was why young men stayed in Boston when their college years were over, maybe that explained why they were so intellectually hyperactive, so frustrated, so alcoholic, such terrible drivers.” MenGivingYearsMadeYoungThreePathYouthStudentsCollegeTerribleThousandDegreesHundredRiversInstitutionsYoung ManFiftyDriversSixtyFrustratedYoung WomenBostonAlcoholicsDemographicsCollege Years Author:Kim Stanley Robinson
“I'm always trying to mentor young women. I speak on college campuses and I have events in my own studio where I open it up to women's groups to learn. I feel really strongly about it.” FeelsTryingYoungSpeakMy OwnGroupsEventsCollegeStudiosMentorYoung WomenAlways TryingCampusCollege Campus Author:Emily Lazar
“I think the idea that feminism is dead is dangerous because it leads women and men to believe that (1) they don't have to do anything; the work has been done, and that everything is okay now; and (2) it leaves them kind of alone, I think, in a struggle, and that's something I've seen a lot when I go to colleges and I speak to young women.” ThinkingMenBelieveKindHas BeensIdeasDoneYoungSpeakStruggleFeminismDangerousCollegeMen And WomenOkayYoung Women Author:Jessica Valenti
“The Hillary Clinton story basically is this. And see how similar this sounds to the old days before the modern era of feminism raised its head. You're a girl, you're a young woman, what do you do? You go off to college. That's what she did. Why do you go? To meet your husband. That's what she did. She wouldn't be where she is if it weren't for her husband.” IfsStoriesYoungGirlSoundFeminismModernCollegeHusbandClintonRaisedErasYoung WomenOld DaysYour HusbandModern EraOff To College Author:Rush Limbaugh
“I watched a documentary about Freedom Riders. One young woman told her parents, 'I'm going to leave college to ride and represent the future.' I thought, 'Who would do that now?' Who would do that for my son?"” YoungParentCollegeSonMy SonYoung WomenDocumentariesRiders Author:Sandra Bullock
“Young women at our elite colleges are among the safest, most privileged and most empowered of any group on the planet. Yet, from the moment they get to campus - and now, even earlier - an endless stream of propaganda tells them otherwise. They are offered safe spaces and healing circles to help them cope with the ravages of a phantom patriarchy.” MomentsHelpingYoungSpaceHealingGroupsCollegePlanetsSafeCirclesEndlessPropagandaStreamsElitesYoung WomenPrivilegedPatriarchyEmpoweredPhantomsCampusSafe Space Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“An economic message, an economic platform unites the factory worker in Scranton, the young woman in Los Angeles struggling to pay her college debt and the single mom in Buffalo who's on minimum wage.” YoungPayStruggleEconomicCollegeMomMessagesWorkersDebtLos AngelesFactoriesPlatformsMinimumYoung WomenMinimum WageSingle MomBuffaloFactory Workers Author:Charles Schumer
“Emily Dickinson did not like was one of the stated purposes of the college - to convert young women to the Christian cause, finding Christ as their personal savior. She was one of the students who were declared without hope.” ChristianYoungPurposeCausesChristStudentsCollegeFindingsSaviorYoung WomenEmilyWithout Hope Author:Christopher Benfey