“When I bought the [WNBA] team, I saw that no one really cared about them. Like the locker facilities that these young women have to work in-they weren't right. I want to give them the best locker room facilities and show them they're valued-because if you show them value, they're going to perform better. And this goes for all women, not just basketball players.” IfsWantGivingShowsYoungValuesRoomsSawsPlayerTeamBasketballYoung WomenFacilityBasketball PlayerLockersLocker RoomWnba Author:Sheila Johnson
“I worked with two young women translators. One died and the other received a death threat from the Taliban.” TwoYoungDiedThreatYoung WomenTalibanTranslators Author:Eliza Griswold
“But it's hard for me to pinpoint where all my characters and dialogue come from - imagination or real life. My memoir, of course, was all about my past, and many of the short stories cleave very closely to my life, but the more stories I wrote in the collection, the more that seemed to be invented, but who knows... I think I'm writing about a young woman with acne who shoplifts, but I'm really writing about myself.” ThinkingKnowsWritingRealHardCharacterStoriesPastYoungCoursesImaginationReal LifeMemoirDialogueCollectionsShort StoryYoung WomenMy PastAcne Author:Said Sayrafiezadeh
“I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl to know that I really existed and that it all went down that way.” KnowsWayWantWritingYoungGirlVersionsYoung WomenThat Girl Author:Melissa Febos
“Even just pestering people with questions, and being nosey and pushy and getting her way, are things I think many young women grow up struggling with, to assert themselves.” PeopleThinkingWayYoungGrowsStruggleGrowing UpYoung WomenPushyNosey Author:Deborah Ann Woll
“An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in "The Prince of the Black Islands." She's a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story...how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She's just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.” MenBookStatesStoriesRunningBeautifulYoungBlackInterestingWifeBloodWorstExampleHe ManHusbandBeatsStonesViolentIslandsAfternoonYoung WomenSad StorySorceress Author:Marina Warner
“Someone said to me that we have to encourage more young women to want top-level editing jobs. I think that will happen naturally as we have more role models, more examples of boss ladies who aren't sad and cruel and overworked and undersexed like in DevilWearsPrada, but who are straight-up owning it and notable not for their gender but for their editorial savvy.” ThinkingWantSaidHappensJobsYoungLevelsRolesExampleModelsGenderBossRole ModelsYoung WomenEditingNotableEditorialsSavvyStraight UpOwning It Author:Ann Friedman
“Anything that increases the voice of young women tends therefore to reduce the fertility rate.” YoungVoiceIncreaseRateYoung WomenFertility Author:Amartya Sen
“I'll be the first to admit I wasn't very happy doing what I did [escorting] nor was I very talented at it, so perhaps that's what worked to make it boring for me. However it's hard for me to imagine that a lot of young women who would enjoy and be good at being an escort.” FirstsHardYoungEnjoyImagineBoringBe GoodImagine ThatYoung WomenVery HappyEscorting Author:Marie Calloway
“There's one logical generational difference and that is that young women will have more chances to support a female president than older women. Older women feel it's their last chance, so that's just a factual, obvious difference. But other than that it depends on experience, on individual experience.” FeelsLastsYoungIndividualPresidentDifferencesChanceSupportDependsFemaleObviousLogicalYoung WomenFactualOlder WomenLast ChanceFemale President Author:Gloria Steinem
“It's interesting to work with Emma [Watson] so quickly after Harry Potter. When we shot this movie, it wasn't that long after Harry Potter was finished, and it's knowing that's a big transition in her life. She's a very talented young woman.” LongBigsYoungInterestingKnowingShotsFinishedTransitionHarry PotterYoung WomenPottersWatsonEmma Author:Ethan Hawke
“I don't think Emma Watson needs any advice. She's an incredibly smart young woman who knows what she wants out of life and she has some great parents.” ThinkingKnowsWantNeedsYoungParentAdviceSmartYoung WomenWatsonEmmaGreat Parents Author:Ethan Hawke
“It's great to see a relatable, accessible young woman out there, doing things and breaking the barriers for what would be considered an action movie.” Would BeActionYoungBarriersYoung WomenRelatableAction Movie Author:Todd Lieberman
“Well, when Kathy Kennedy, who is the president of Lucasfilm, came to me to ask if I'd be interested in working on this "Star Wars" movie, we talked about a young woman at the center of the story from the outset. And it was something that was always an important part of this movie.” IfsWellsImportantWarStoriesYoungAsksStarsPresidentYoung WomenWar MovieStar Wars Movie Author:J. J. Abrams
“Well, in Washington, this is a very hard time for Eleanor and Franklin. This is when Lucy Mercer first appears. And Lucy Mercer is Eleanor Roosevelt's own secretary. Very beautiful young woman, not unlike Eleanor Roosevelt: tall, blonde, thick haired. And FDR is having an affair with her, which Eleanor Roosevelt finds out when FDR returns from Europe in 1918 with the famous flu of 1918.” FirstsWellsHardBeautifulYoungReturnEuropeAffairHard TimesTallThickSecretaryYoung WomenFluBlondeFranklinVery BeautifulLucyEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“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
“Surround yourself with a really good group of friends that are true and honest and won't lead you astray and make you compromise who you are as a woman or a young woman.” YoungGroupsHonestWho You AreCompromiseSurroundYoung WomenSurround YourselfGroup Of Friends Author:V V Brown
“I think people like Lena Dunham really opened up the door to what was possible, and they've inspired young women to go into filmmaking and writing and directing and acting in a way that maybe they didn't before, because now there is a path and there are jobs.” PeopleThinkingWayWritingJobsYoungActingPathDoorsInspiredFilmmakingYoung Women Author:Judd Apatow
“I think today's young women are an especially powerful breed. They will be taking on even greater challenges, which is why achieving personal empowerment is so important for them. These women are going to be holding positions of significant authority, owning more businesses, and shaping public policy.” ThinkingImportantTodayYoungChallengesPowerfulGreaterAchievePolicyPositionAuthorityEmpowermentSignificantYoung WomenPublic PolicyPersonal Empowerment Author:Mary Pope Osborne
“It's really the story of a young woman, or two women, growing up in Naples in a poor neighborhood. The way that they get out of it - or don't get out of it - that's part of it. But it's also the story of the mid-20th century in Italy so it's really like a social, historical and personal novel. I think that even though I didn't live in Italy in those years, it did cover that same type of generational upbringing that someone like me might've had in America.” ThinkingWayYearsTwoStoriesMightAmericaYoungSocialPoorNovelGrowing UpGrowingCenturyTypeHistoricalLike MeNeighborhoodYoung Women20th CenturyUpbringingNaplesPoor Neighborhoods Author:Ann Goldstein
“I want to encourage more young women to get involved in coding, because it's important for them to be able to help shape the future, and coding is the future.” WantImportantHelpingAbleYoungInvolvedShapesYoung WomenGet Involved Author:Karlie Kloss
“I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.” YearsLittlesAgeRememberYoungGirlRealizingLordBoysWrittenYoung WomenAdolescenceOnly TimeLittle WomenHoldenHolden Caulfield Author:Winona Ryder
“I think a lot of my girlfriends growing up gave themselves up to any boy who paid attention to them. I think young women now are a lot more particular. They pick and choose.” ThinkingYoungAttentionBoysGrowing UpGrowingParticularPicksPaidGirlfriendYoung WomenMy Girlfriend Author:Bo Derek
“I read a lot of articles about young women in the resistance. All of a sudden, I felt that if I go too much into this horror, then I won't be able to start as a fresh character.” IfsCharacterAbleYoungFeltToo MuchHorrorResistanceArticlesYoung Women Author:Carice van Houten
“I think anytime you can share images that make young women feel a sense of belonging when they might not be feeling their best or their strongest is so cool.” ThinkingFeelsFeelingsMightYoungShareBelongingStrongestYoung Women Author:Petra Collins
“As the first woman to win Album of the Year at the Grammys twice, I want to say to all the young women out there, there are going to be people along the way who will try to undercut your success or take credit for your accomplishments or your fame.But if you just focus on the work and you don't let those people sidetrack you, someday, when you get where you are going, you will look around and you will know that it was you and the people who love you who put you there. And that will be the greatest feeling in the world. Thank you for this moment.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldWayWantTryingYearsFirstsLooksMomentsFeelingsYoungWinningFocusLove YouFameAlbumsCreditAccomplishmentSomedayWhere You AreYoung WomenGrammyWhere You Are GoingUndercut Author:Taylor Swift
“I read every single letter. Some just break my heart. I've cried over letters that have come in, from young women and older women alike, saying to me, "You know, you made me want to stop crash dieting and just be healthy. You are my role model. I want to be like you."” KnowsWantHeartMadeYoungRolesBreakLike YouMy HeartHealthyModelsLettersRole ModelsCriedCrashYoung WomenDietingBreaking My HeartOlder Women Author:Evangeline Lilly
“The main one is that these apparel jobs are a very important means for young women in these countries to gain autonomy. The other big lesson is that it can't be just about activism. This is most clear to me in the case of China, where we do not have freedom of the press. If the press is free and can report on what's happening, then change happens.” IfsMeanImportantCountryBigsHappensJobsYoungCasesClearLessonsHappeningsGainsPressesChinaActivismReportsYoung WomenAutonomyFreedom Of The PressApparel Author:Pietra Rivoli
“I am passionate about young women and advocating for them.” YoungPassionateYoung WomenAdvocating Author:Sara Bareilles
“When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from the "Etiology" section) it was still considered a "great poem." What does that poem - or rather a particular presentation of that poem (hey, admire this!) - do to a young woman?” DoeStillsBookYoungParticularAdmireInstanceHeyYoung WomenSectionsPresentationAllusion Author:Laura Mullen
“I truly hope you realize how important setting goals are for young women, teaching them we have so much more to offer than our bodies.” ImportantBodyYoungGoalRealizingTeachingOffersSettingSettingsYoung WomenSetting Goals Author:Chloe Grace Moretz
“But when I realized it was actually going to be this portrait of the artist, birth to death, I had to then discover who Margaret as a young woman would be. I had to find the different voices for her throughout her life. I had a lot of fun discovering that. I had a lot of fun writing the childhood sections. By imagining her childhood, I was able to come up with this voice that matures as she gets older.” WritingDifferentWould BeAbleYoungArtistFunVoiceChildhoodBirthCome UpI RealizedDiscoveringYoung WomenPortraitsSectionsDifferent Voices Author:Danielle Dutton
“Living in New York, I get inspired by what young women are wearing - everything from high fashion to street fashion.” YoungStreetsFashionNew YorkInspiredYoung WomenHigh Fashion Author:Austin Scarlett
“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
“I hear from a lot of young women, you know, I don't want to call myself a feminist because I don't want to get in an argument with someone. And it's just not cool; like it's not a cool thing to be associated with.” KnowsWantYoungArgumentFeministYoung WomenCool Things Author:Jessica Valenti
“There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist. But you do kind of get a nice patriarchal pat on the head if you say, oh, I'm not like that, like I'm not one of those crazy feminists, which is something that happens a lot, where young women or young men will express some sort of feminist ideal, will say, you know, I think it's crap that Wal-Mart won't give out emergency contraception, but I'm not one of those crazy feminists.” IfsThinkingKnowsMenGivingKindHappensYoungNiceCrazyBenefitsIdealsFeministYoung ManCrapYoung WomenEmergenciesContraception Author:Jessica Valenti
“I think that the ideal of young womanhood as it's seen in pop culture specifically is a really kind of vapid, conceited, concerned with money and looks kind of thing that you'll see in a lot of reality shows. And I think that's really damaging, not just because it's a terrible role model to put forth, but that it also puts across this idea to the American public that this is what young women are like, that this is what all young women in America are like.” ThinkingLooksKindIdeasShowsRealityAmericaYoungCultureRolesTerribleModelsConcernedIdealsPopsRole ModelsYoung WomenWomanhoodPop CultureConceitedReality ShowsVapid Author:Jessica Valenti
“There is a way hook ups are serving young women. And it was important for me to always talk about how behaviours were serving girls, not just making them the victims.” WayImportantYoungGirlVictimServingBehaviourYoung WomenHookHook Up Author:Peggy Orenstein
“A miniskirt shows just enough to cause some mystery. What these young women lack is mystery so the old women have to have it.” EnoughShowsYoungCausesMysteryYoung WomenOld WomanFrisbee Author:Tyler Perry
“The way we are annoying them, being playful and having a good time with our body - it's something very important for young women today to have that confidence. I think it's actually celebrating women and their bodies.” ThinkingWayImportantBodyTodayYoungCelebrateGood TimesAnnoyingYoung WomenHaving A Good Time Author:Emily Ratajkowski
“One hundred percent my mother, who would always say, "If you want something done, do it yourself." She must have said that 100 times to me - as a child, as a young woman, yesterday on the phone.” IfsWantChildrenSaidDoneYoungMotherPercentHundredPhonesYesterdayYoung WomenWant SomethingDo It Yourself Author:Reese Witherspoon
“Celia [Brady] is a young woman who, you know, she's still got that fresh young vibe about her but at the same time she's quite wise beyond her years and very mature and she has that womanly, sexy quality, but at the same time she's very youthful in her clothes. She has that interesting mix between the two. I really love that balance about fashion.” KnowsYearsStillsTwoYoungInterestingQualityWiseFashionBalanceClothesSexyMatureYoung WomenBradyWomanlyWho You KnowCelia Author:Lily Collins
“When I looked at [Fannie Lou] Hamer and that speech it seemed to me that she had to be the bravest woman ever, to come before that body and to assert her rights, when she knew that she was going lose that battle. But she did it anyway, because she knew she was speaking not just for herself and for that day, but for me, and for all the other young women who were coming behind her. She didn't know our names, but she was working for us. I find that incredibly empowering.” KnowsBodyYoungNamesLosesBehindsRightsBattleSpeechEmpoweringYoung Women Author:Leah D. Daughtry
“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'm really worried about what the world is going to be like when my daughters are young women, [when] they are young leaders or mothers or businesspeople - whatever they're going to be. I'm afraid they're going to have a less healthy and less biologically rich planet.” WorldYoungMotherLeaderRichPlanetsHealthyDaughterWorriedMy DaughterYoung WomenYoung Leaders Author:Jeff Corwin
“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
“I've met many young women who are HIV positive and courageously fighting the disease. Their determination to live a full life and see their children live in a better world is deeply inspiring to me.” WorldChildrenYoungFightingMetsDiseaseDeterminationYoung WomenHivFull LifeHiv Positive Author:Alicia Keys
“I have been really heartened by how much coverage there has been about inequality of pay across the board, between the entertainment industry and almost every industry worldwide. And just the problem of young women not getting an education, not being able to have an equal position in the cultures all around the world.” WorldHas BeensProblemAbleYoungCulturePayPositionIndustryEqualEntertainmentInequalityAround The WorldBoardsYoung WomenCoverageEntertainment Industry Author:Bonnie Raitt
“I just got a chance to see strong tenacity and a desire to be on top from some young women who have never seen six, seven women signed at a time to major record labels. But they believe that they can put their footprint in hip hop in a major way.” WayBelieveYoungDesireStrongChanceRecordsSixMajorsSevenHip HopHipsLabelsHopsYoung WomenTenacityFootprintRecord Labels Author:MC Lyte
“I'm a young woman who lives in a world of social media; I'll post boring things too!” WorldYoungSocialMediaBoringSocial MediaPostsYoung WomenBoring Things Author:Emily Ratajkowski