“Who knows what exactly changed Tom Cotton`s mind. I mean, maybe it was that woman who said her husband was dying and only alive thanks to the Affordable Care Act. Maybe it was the young woman on your right side of your screen who said that without the treatment she could only receive through the Affordable Care Act she herself would be dead.” KnowsMindMeanSaidWould BeCareYoungSidesAliveDyingChangedHusbandScreensThanksTreatmentTomsYoung WomenAffordableCottonAffordable Care Act Author:Rachel Maddow
“All I can say is [kids] have turned out to be terrific young women. We were concerned mostly about whether they'd develop an attitude, right?” I CanKidsYoungAttitudeConcernedYoung WomenTerrific Author:Barack Obama
“As you might imagine, if you're a teenager having a couple of people with microphones and guns always following you around, that could grate on them. But you know, they've handled it with grace and I give Michelle [Obama] most of the credit for how well they've done, but I also just think they are graceful, good young, young women.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsGivingWellsDoneMightYoungGraceImagineCoupleGunFollowingCreditTeenagerYoung WomenMicrophonesGrate Author:Barack Obama
“I love a statement by the apostle Paul, in the Book of Philippians in the Bible. I think the Corinthians had been writing to Paul, telling him that old men were chasing young women, nobody was tithing - and all that must have run Paul crazy. He wrote back and said, "If there be anything of good report, speak of these things." That's one of my principles.It's another discipline that I encourage myself to employ - to, as much as possible, say the courteous thing, and then be it.” IfsThinkingMenWritingSaidBookRunningYoungSpeakPrinciplesCrazyDisciplineStatementsReportsOld ManYoung WomenChasingApostlesCourteousApostle PaulTithingCorinthians Author:Maya Angelou
“I think there is a misconception that when people are the face of something, or they're the voice, especially when they're young women, that they're being created or molded by someone else. I think more so than not wanting to be a singer I was afraid of being mislabeled as just a singer - not that that's a bad thing.” PeopleThinkingYoung WomenMisconception Author:Tei Shi
“Childcare is a huge issue for young women whose work may require them to leave their families for weeks at a time.” WeekYoung Women Author:Sylvia Earle
“Reading about feminism when I was a teenager and seeing it as a young woman, I realized that feminism really hadn't dealt with sexuality; it really hadn't dealt with transgender or gay women.” ReadingFeminismGaySexualityI RealizedTeenagerYoung WomenTransgender Author:Lorna Simpson
“I always advocate to young women that if we don't do this for ourselves, no one else is going to. We have to have a voice.” Young Women Author:Priyanka Chopra
“Young women now, this generation - girls my age too, but even younger than I am - they're the ones that are going to change the world. They've grown up in such a new way of thinking about women and female empowerment. I grew up with a little bit of that, but teenagers now, those are the girls that are going to make the world a different place for everyone else.” ThinkingWorldDifferentAgeGirlFemaleEmpowermentTeenagerChanging The WorldYoung WomenDifferent Place Author:Lucy Hale
“I've seen a tremendous shift especially in indie comics. I see all these young women who are out there creating. They're making these great web comics. Their graphic novels are getting published. They're making all this wonderful art. They're powerful. There's this vital energy about it that's really, really beautiful that years ago I knew existed but I didn't see so clearly.” ArtBeautifulEnergyPowerfulNovelWonderfulYoung WomenGraphicReally Beautiful Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“When I first started out in comics they would put me on these Women of Marvel panels, and these young women would come up to me and say, "I really want to write comics but I don't know if I can because I'm told that it's just for guys." I would say, "That's bullshit. That's absolute bullshit. Look at me!" But the one area where we still need to work on is that we need more women of color. That's not common thing yet.” WritingGuyCommonBullshitYoung WomenLook At Me Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“The important thing about doing art and writing is that we are using our voices and using them really, really loudly. And to any girls or young women who want to write comics, I tell them, "You have to use your voice. You have to take up space." We have to fight to be heard. No one else is going to fight for us.” WritingArtImportantGirlFightingYoung Women Author:Marjorie M. Liu
“Young women are not as likely to receive the encouragement they need from role models like teachers and parents. And they should be encouraged - studies show women are just as likely as men to win when they do run.” MenRunningWinningParentStudyTeacherEncouragementRole ModelsYoung WomenBe Encouraged Author:Tammy Duckworth
“First of all, I would tell any young woman who's interested in politics to get in touch with herself first and really, really determine if this is what she wants to do - and not do it just because it may be the thing at the moment. What do you care about? What is it that moves you? What would you like to change? What would you do if you were in this situation?” MomentsCareMovingSituationDetermineYoung WomenDo You Care Author:Maxine Waters
“The gay rights movement of recent years has been an inspiring victory for humanity and it is in the tradition of the civil rights movement when I was a young boy in the South, the women's suffrage movement when my mother was a young woman in Tennessee, the abolition movement much farther back, and the anti-apartheid movement when I was in the House of Representatives. All of these movements have one thing in common: the opposition to progress was rooted in an outdated understanding of morality.” MotherHumanityHouseUnderstandingCommonBoysProgressVictoryMoralityGayTraditionCivil RightsYoung WomenCivil Rights MovementGay RightsAbolitionSuffrage Author:Al Gore
“I wanted young women to know that I was very lucky that I worked for people who literally let me be me. If I had ever been anyone other than me, I would have come off as a fake, a phony, a fraud, and never would have gotten where I ultimately ended up. You can be yourself and be in politics, and they should know that. That was kind of why I wanted to do it - because I didn't see any freaks in politics like me.” PeopleKindLuckyLet MeFakeBeing YourselfFraudFreakYoung WomenPhony Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“I would encourage young women to find a person, give it your all, and leave it all on the field. The one thing I have found is that, if you are sitting at a table, most women will want to only give their opinion only when it's almost fact in their mind - whereas dudes will pontificate a lot more. And I will tell you, I've started pontificating a lot more, which is very satisfying. Women should not be afraid to speak.” GivingMindSpeakOpinionYoung Women Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“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.” YoungSportsSuccessfulFortuneYoung WomenSurveysSuccessful WomenBusiness Woman Author:Billie Jean King
“I think that the thing that holds so many of us back is our fear that we might fail, and I think we lose an incredible amount of talent and energy and enthusiasm that way. So I think, since I'm kind of a shining example of losing, that it's important for me to show that it's OK to lose, that I'm still so happy that I entered the fight, that I fought for something that mattered to me and that I gave voice to it and I made it part of the conversation. I want young women to know that it is OK to fail - it's not OK to stay home. It's not OK to not try.” ThinkingTryingKindImportantHomeFightingEnergyFailingTalentLosingShiningIncrediblesEnthusiasmI Want YouYoung Women Author:Wendy Davis
“I think that if you look at all of the books that have ever been written about people working in the White House, they're sort of the opposite of my book. And I think that so many people want to write a book that sort of memorializes their place in history. And I wanted to write something for all of the women who are like me. I grew up in upstate New York, I graduated high school with 70 other people and didn't ever know that anything like this would have really been an option for me. So I wanted other young women — and men — to know that just being you is plenty.” PeopleThinkingMenWritingBookSchoolHouseHigh SchoolMen And WomenPlentyYoung Women Author:Alyssa Mastromonaco
“Something I say a lot when it comes to anti-feminist stereotypes is that they exist for a reason. The stereotypes of feminists as ugly, or man-haters, or hairy, or whatever it is - that's really strategic. That's a really smart way to keep young women away from feminism, is to kind of put out this idea that all feminists hate men, or all feminists are ugly; and that they really come from a place of fear. If feminism wasn't powerful, if feminism wasn't influential, people wouldn't spend so much time putting it down.” PeopleMenKindReasonHatePowerfulFeminismSmartFeministUglyYoung WomenStereotypeInfluentialHate MeReally SmartInfluential People Author:Jessica Valenti
“Something you hear a lot is that feminism dead. But if feminism is dead, why do people try so hard to kill it? Something just isn't making sense there. So I think when young women hear like, hey, someone's trying to get something over on me, you know, someone's trying to deliberately keep me away from a movement that could make my life better, I think that really resonates with them.” PeopleThinkingTryingFeminismMake SenseYoung Women Author:Jessica Valenti
“Young women know that something is off; they know that the world is a messed-up place. They know that the world is a sexist place because they've had experiences in their own life; they see things happening to their friends, to their parents. But because feminism isn't widely accepted, because they don't necessarily have access to feminist thought or to feminist groups, they don't necessarily have a language to put behind the feelings and the thoughts that they're having. And they certainly don't have a support system to let them know like, hey, that's okay; you're right, that is screwed up.” WorldFeelingsLanguageParentSupportFeminismOkayFeministAcceptedThings HappenYoung WomenSexist Author:Jessica Valenti
“I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called out. 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. There's no benefit to saying that you're a feminist.” PeopleThinkingFeminismArgumentScaredFeministYoung Women Author:Jessica Valenti
“It just struck me as really odd that there were all of these conversations going on about what young women were up to. Were young women having too much sex? Were young women politically apathetic? Are young women socially engaged or not? And whenever these conversations were happening, they were mostly happening by older women and by older feminists. And maybe there would be a younger woman quoted every once in a while, but we weren't really a central part of that conversation. We weren't really being allowed to speak on our own behalf.” SpeakFeministOddYoung WomenApatheticOlder Women Author:Jessica Valenti
“We've been growing our readership every month, and we're kind of like, where are they all coming from? This is wonderful! And I think one of the best surprises was that you hear so often that young women don't care about feminism, that young women don't identify as feminists. But really, the majority of our readers are young women. So to see so many young people kind of get involved and really take to Feministing.com was a really exciting thing.” PeopleThinkingKindCareWonderfulFeminismExcitingSurpriseFeministYoung WomenGet Involved Author:Jessica Valenti
“Right now, women's worth is being quantified by how they look and their Instagrams and likes. That's all so self-created, so why are we trying to add to that? It's hard enough to be a young woman, or man, growing up and trying to find your identity, rather than having a whole Internet of people weighing in on it. It makes me sad for those kids.” PeopleMenTryingEnoughKidsGrowing UpIdentityInternetYoung Women Author:Jennifer Aniston
“One day, Sally Kirkland said to Diana Vreeland, who was the fashion editor of Harper's Bazaar at the time, "I have a young woman I want you to meet. She's very young, but I think you should meet her." When Sally Kirkland told me this, I said, "I can't possibly do that! I'm going to throw up! That's the scariest thing I've ever heard! I can't do that, Sally. I'm not ready to do that!" But Sally said, "You let them make that decision." I was absolutely terrified.” ThinkingDecisionFashionOne DayI Want YouYoung WomenNot Ready Author:Polly Allen Mellen
“A young man who came from Columbus, Ohio and made it, and who wants every other young man and young woman, black or white, to know that if I could do it, they could do it. Me and my fans grew up together, and I believe they know I'm a walking billboard and proof of that. That's what I see when I look in the mirror.” MenBelieveTogetherI BelieveBlackWalkingYoung Women Author:Bow Wow
“When I look in the mirror I see someone who's aging now, and someone who kept a commitment made many, many years ago, and who today is trying to be an example for young women.” TryingTodayCommitmentAgingYoung Women Author:Shirley Sherrod
“I counseled a 75-year-old married, bi-sexual man who was having a gay affair and was not having sex with his wife to continue his secret life because that seemed like the kindest thing to do. But a young woman embarking on married life, hoping to start a family with her husband, needs to at least know he's already living a double life.” MenSecretWifeGayHusbandMarriedAffairYoung WomenMarried LifeSecret Life Author:Emily Yoffe
“Young women who I think do the best job of balancing family life and a big career start businesses or work for themselves. That's the best way of being in charge of your life.” ThinkingYoung WomenFamily Life Author:Gail Sheehy
“Now, I think a lot of people look around and feel that we're relatively equal with men. In fact, women are now the majority of college graduates, we have role models like Hillary Clinton to look up to - it seems like the world is completely open to us and we can accomplish anything. I think feminists are often disdained today because we're seen as complaining about a problem people think no longer exists. I also think young women shy away from calling themselves feminists because many haven't been educated about it or exposed to it. They don't know enough about it to identify with it.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldEnoughProblemTodayCollegeEqualClintonFeministAccomplishComplainingEducatedLook UpShyRole ModelsGraduatesYoung WomenCollege Graduates Author:Julie Zeilinger
“It's always been important to me to be very upfront with people about the fact that I do identify as a feminist because it's an opportunity to expose people to and educated them about the movement. Young women don't identify as feminist is because they don't know any feminists and don't have a comprehensive understanding of what it is, I gave them example and an opportunity to ask about it. And once they saw that I wasn't the embodiment of the negative feminist stereotype - that I was a normal teen girl just like them - I think they became more open to learning about what feminism really is.” PeopleThinkingImportantGirlOpportunityUnderstandingFeminismNegativeFeministEducatedYoung WomenStereotype Author:Julie Zeilinger
“I honestly feel that most young women out there are feminists - they just don't know that the word "feminism" describes the things they believe in. I wants to show young women that while feminists of the past did incredible work and that while the relative equality we experience now is due to their hard work, we still have a ways to go. We still have to fight for our rights and be vigilant in terms of keeping the rights we do have.” BelievePastFightingTermFeminismHard WorkIncrediblesFeministHonestlyRelativeYoung Women Author:Julie Zeilinger
“In terms of feminism, I would just ask young women to keep an open mind about it and try to learn about it before they write it off or believe the negative stereotypes that surround it. Feminism can help you on a personal level, it can offer you an incredible community of brilliant and impassioned people, and can change the way you see the world if you just open yourself up to it. I think that goes for all causes as well.” PeopleThinkingWorldWritingTryingMindBelieveHelpingTermCommunityFeminismNegativeIncrediblesBrilliantSurroundYoung WomenStereotypeOpen MindKeep An Open Mind Author:Julie Zeilinger
“I want young women when they're 14 to start thinking about what they want over the course of their lives. I think it's criminal - child abuse - that they're not told to do this [in school]. Right now it's just sex education and putting condoms on bananas. Girls should be asked to think about what they want in their lives when they're 50, 60 and 70.” ThinkingChildrenSchoolGirlAbuseChild AbuseI Want YouYoung WomenCondom Author:Camille Paglia
“Growing up, you're told there are things you're not capable of doing because you're a girl. That perception's starting to change and it's amazing. It's important that we continue to share the message with other young women. If they grow up in a household or go to a school where they're told that they can't do certain things, it's important that they hear from someone that it is possible to do whatever they want with their lives.” ImportantSchoolGirlGrowing UpShareCapableYoung Women Author:Becky G
“I think it's important to present role models for young women coming up. I really do believe you can't be what you can't see, and representation matters. So, for me, it's the idea of putting women in media in ways that present them as having power, being heard, being true to themselves, and done from the perspective of women.” ThinkingBelieveImportantDonePerspectiveBeing TrueRole ModelsRepresentationYoung Women Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I would tell a newly diagnosed young woman that breast cancer is a complex disease which can be frightening and confusing, and it's normal to experience these emotions, and having a good support system is important. Be an active participant in your treatment, follow your doctor's instructions and ask questions. Also, I would tell her that there have been many advances in breast cancer and women are now living much longer.” ImportantEmotionSupportCancerFrighteningYoung WomenConfusingBreast Cancer Author:Thelma Jones
“When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.” ThinkingDifferentBeautifulChoicesHabitLosingYoung WomenGorgeousBad HabitsReally Beautiful Author:Barbara Hamby
“When I was a teenager in the '80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it's mostly teenage girls. It's great! It's an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren't directly handed those tools by adults.” GirlPossibilityTeenagerYoung WomenTeenageTeenage Girl Author:Ani DiFranco
“Crunk Feminist Collective, I think, is a noble endeavor, and any group of young women coming together to uplift women, especially being run by women of color, I have no choice but to support that. But they're dead wrong on me.” ThinkingRunningTogetherChoicesSupportFeministUpliftingYoung Women Author:Talib Kweli
“To be honest, that whole exchange with Crunk Feminist actually made me write the song because I realize there's a lot of young women out there so hurt by the misogynistic images in hip-hop they paint it with such a broad brush stroke that they think anybody that defends hip-hop is defending misogyny.” ThinkingWritingSongRealizingHurtHonestPaintFeministBeing HonestYoung WomenMisogyny Author:Talib Kweli
“I've seen it in so many talented young women who hold back because they're not sure that what they say will be smart enough. Or maybe they've said something in a prior meeting, and people acted like they hadn't said it, and that was crushing. Then we have all had the experience where 20 minutes later, a man says the same thing and everybody responds positively.... So don't take it personally. Take it seriously so that you understand it, and then try to devise techniques to overcome it.” PeopleMenTryingEnoughSmartOvercomingMeetingsNot SureCrushYoung WomenPositivelyBeing Smart Author:Hillary Clinton
“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.” WayHumansProblemYoungEnergyCausesGrowthReligiousEconomicKeysRootsEnvironmentalRatePopulationTensionEmpoweringAddressesYoung WomenProvenImprovingPublic HealthUnendingFertilityLoomingRoot CauseHuman PopulationEmpower Yourself Author:Lawrence M. Krauss
“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.” KnowsStoriesProblemWantedYoungCoursesSawsSubjectsCoupleMarriedYoung WomenBeing MarriedHealth Problems Author:Jhumpa Lahiri
“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.” PeopleKnowsWantShouldYoungYoung WomenSufferers Author:Padma Lakshmi
“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.” ChristianYoungReligiousIndustryAdvantageDressesTrainHumbleModestyYoung WomenPlainness Book:A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life Source: A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life
“I think one of the biggest things that affects young women is when they hear their mothers using fat talk.” ThinkingYoungMotherFatsYoung Women Author:Tyra Banks