These young women quotes will inspire you. Young women are strong and independent, and they have the ability to make their own decisions. The most important thing is that they do not let their parents or society dictate what they should be doing with their lives. If you want to become a successful woman, you must work hard and take risks.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging young women quotes, young women sayings, and young women proverbs.
Best Young Women Quotes
- “Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.” ~ Dorothy L. Sayers
- “The first man to compare the cheeks of a young woman to a rose was obviously a poet; the first to repeat it was possibly an idiot.” ~ Salvador Dali
- “I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels.” ~ Maya Angelou
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“A young woman has young claws, well sharpened. If she has character, that is. And if she hasn’t so much the worse for you.” ~ Henri Matisse
- “Where should one use perfume?” a young woman asked. “Wherever one wants to be kissed.” ~ Coco Chanel
- “But methings wit is more necessary than beauty, and I think no young woman ugly that has it, and no handsome woman agreeable without it” ~ William Wycherley
- “I know you’re still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You’re a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance.” ~ Khaled Hosseini
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“To be in love is merely to be in a state of perceptual anesthesia – to mistake an ordinary young woman for a goddess.” ~ H. L. Mencken
- “The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.” ~ Eric Hoffer
- “When I get up and work out, I’m working out just as much for my girls as I am for me because I want them to see a mother who loves them dearly, who invests in them, but who also invests in herself. It’s just as much about letting them know as young women that it is okay to put yourself a little higher on your priority list.” ~ Michelle Obama
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“No time to marry, no time to settle down; I’m a young woman, and I ain’t done runnin’ around.” ~ Bessie Smith
- “I believe every young women needs to know that though you may have to struggle and strive to achieve your dreams, you can have oodles of fun along the way.” ~ Eric Jacobson
- “My great hope for us as young women is to start being kinder to ourselves so that we can be kinder to each other. To stop shaming ourselves and other people for things we don’t know the full story on – whether someone is too fat, too skinny, too short, too tall, too loud, too quiet, too anything. There’s a sense that we’re all ‘too’ something, and we’re all not enough.” ~ Emma Stone
- “A woman is a warrior too. But she is meant to be a warrior in a uniquely feminine way. Sometime before the sorrows of life did their best to kill it in us, most young women wanted to be a part of something grand, something important.” ~ Stasi Eldredge
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“The body of a young woman is God’s greatest achievement…Of course, He could have built it to last longer but you can’t have everything.” ~ Neil Simon
- “It’s not easy to diagnose because depending where the endometrial deposits are, the symptoms can be quite different. It’s an unrecognized problem among teenage girls, and it’s something that every young woman who has painful menstruation should be aware of… It’s a condition that is curable if it’s caught early. If not, if it’s allowed to run on, it can cause infertility, and it can really, really mess up your life.” ~ Hilary Mantel
- “The best way for us to cultivate fearlessness in our daughters and other young women is by example.” ~ Gloria Steinem
- “A young woman with long hair and a short white halter dress walks through the casino at the Riviera in Las Vegas at one in the morning. It was precisely this moment that made Play It As It Lays begin to tell itself to me.” ~ Joan Didion
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“I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.” ~ Martha Wainwright
- “I think this…”perfectionist gene” that too many young women have holds them back, and instead they should be really aiming for “good enough.” You don’t have to be perfect. Most men never think like that. They’re just trying to figure out what’s the opening and how they can seize it. They’re not thinking about, Oh my gosh, I’m not perfect, my hair’s not perfect today, I wore the wrong shoes. No.” ~ Hillary Clinton
- “For young males that weigh between 150-200 lbs., deadlifts can move up 15-20 lbs. per workout, squats 10-15 lbs., with continued steady progress for 3-4 weeks before slowing down to half that rate. Bench presses, presses, and cleans can move up 5-10 lbs. per workout, with progress on these exercises slowing down to 2.5-5 lbs. per workout after only 2-3 weeks. Young women make progress on the squat and the deadlift at about the same rate, adjusted for body weight, but much slower on the press, the bench press, cleans, and assistance exercises.” ~ Mark Rippetoe
- “There are so few strong roles for women, especially young women. And Veronica is very serious but also very likable. She’s a lone wolf, and it appeals to people that she isn’t rich and doesn’t have a lot of friends. No posse. She’s just like you, like most of us.” ~ Kristen Bell
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“It took great courage to ask a beautiful young woman to marry me. Believe me, it is easier to play the whole Petrushka on the piano.” ~ Arthur Rubinstein
- “I loved Veronica right off the bat. She was so strong and I think it is so important because there are so few shows that portray women, especially young women as being strong and being able to stand up for themselves.” ~ Kristen Bell
- “What if this young woman, who writes such bad poems, in competition with her husband, whose poems are equally bad, should stretch her remarkably long and well-made legs out before you so that her skirt slips up to the tops of her stockings?” ~ Gilbert Sorrentino
- “Many young women are less whole and androgynous than they were at age ten. They are more appearance-conscious and sex-conscious. They are quieter, more fearful of holding strong opinions, more careful what they say and less honest. They are more likely to second-guess themselves and to be self-critical. They are bigger worriers and more effective people, pleasers. They are less likely to play sports, love math and science, and plan on being president. They hide their intelligence. Many must fight for years to regain all the territory they lost.” ~ Mary Pipher
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“Young women say I helped them come out of their shells.” ~ Bettie Page
- “We have been counseled to “seek . . . out of the best books words of wisdom.” It is pointed out in Proverbs, “Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom.” (Proverbs 4:7.) But in getting wisdom and getting knowledge, above all we should “get understanding.” It is important to learn a profession, learn a trade. That applies not only to the young men, but it applies to you young women as well. You girls should place yourselves in a position to be self-supporting and independent in the event that tragedy or an emergency comes, for emergencies have come and will continue to come.” ~ Henry D. Taylor
- “The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don’t screw around, and don’t smoke.” ~ Edwina Currie
- “God bless you young women and young men who struggle through the worrisome teenage years. Some of you may not yet have found yourselves, but you are not lost, for Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, our Savior and Redeemer.” ~ Boyd K. Packer
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“You have a great destiny before you. This is your moment! I truly believe that one virtuous young woman, led by the Spirit, can change the world.” ~ Elaine S. Dalton
- “It is my conviction that your generation is better and stronger than was ours… better in many ways! I have the faith that you young men and young women can meet the world on its own terms and conquer it.” ~ Boyd K. Packer
- “I’ve had young women come to me and say that before they watched ‘Voyager’ it didn’t really occur to them that they could be successful in a higher position in the field of science; girls going to MIT, girls pursuing astrophysics with a view to a career in NASA.” ~ Kate Mulgrew
- “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?” ~ Kathryn Minshew
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“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.” ~ Karrine Steffans
- “We know what happens to little black boys that have no dads; we’ve heard that we get it. But no one is really saying that young women who are born without fathers have real serious issues especially when their mother had no father and the mother has issues.” ~ Karrine Steffans
- “There are thousands of inspirational stories waiting to be told about young women who yearn for a great education. They are stories of struggle and stories of success, and they will inspire others to take action and work to change lives.” ~ Soledad O’Brien
- “To me it seems that too many young women of this timeshare the same creed. ‘Live, laugh, love, be nothing but happy, experience everything, et cetera et cetera.’ How monotonous, how useless this becomes. What about the honors of Joan of Arc, Beauvoir, Stowe, Xena, Princess Leia, or women that would truly fight for something other than just their own emotions?” ~ Criss Jami
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“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.” ~ Jay Weatherill
- “I want to say to all the young women out there, as I say to all young people: believe in yourselves, follow your passion and never give up, because you will create a future filled with possibility.” ~ Marin Alsop
- “When I grew up, feminism wasn’t something that was really talked about. There’s a really negative stereotype about feminism in the media. That really plays badly for young women understanding the movement. Maybe people don’t want to identify themselves as feminists because of the label. But people need to understand what feminism means and educate themselves before they reject it.” ~ Julie Zeilinger
- “I believe there need to be women visual in our everyday landscape, working hard and doing their own thing, whether you like it or not, whether it’s acceptable or not…I especially hope to inspire young women because often I feel like so much emphasis is put on how beautiful you are, and how thin you are, and not a lot of emphasis is put on what you can do and how smart you are. I’d like to change that, change the emphasis of what’s important when looking at a woman.” ~ Margaret Kilgallen
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“I’m actually just playing honest, whole young women.” ~ Ellen Pagev
- “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.” ~ Juno Temple
- “The belief that female sexual expression is uniquely dehumanizing is a double standard, no matter how much you dress it up in feminist language. Instead of condemning young women for the length of their skirts, why not use that energy for condemning anyone who would think that a woman is lesser-than because she wears a miniskirt?” ~ Amanda Marcotte
- “In study at the Mayo Clinic covering fifty consecutive young women with hypothyroidism, twenty-eight has menstrual disturbances. Abnormally profuse menses was a common disturbance; frequent bleeding between periods was another; in some cases, both problems were present. Thyroid therapy relived the disturbances.” ~ Broda Otto Barnes
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“What do you think? Young women of rank eat – you will never guess what – Garlick!” ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “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.” ~ Irving Penn
- “As a young woman, I dreamed of changing the world. In my twenties, I went to Africa to try and save the continent, only to learn that Africans neither wanted nor needed saving. Indeed, when I was there, I saw some of the worst that good intentions, traditional charity, and aid can produce.” ~ Jacqueline Novogratz
- “WITCH, n. (1) Any ugly and repulsive old woman, in a wicked league with the devil. (2) A beautiful and attractive young woman, in wickedness a league beyond the devil.” ~ Ambrose Bierce
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“I’m a young woman and I’m going to write about what I know.” ~ Amy Winehouse
- “One of the early tip-offs to me about the enormous changes that were going on with being in a Bangalore house, home, where the young woman from a nearby village, who had been hired to babysit newborn twins, suddenly said after two weeks of work: ‘I’m sorry, this is too much work, I’m going to try applying for call center jobs. The pay is better.'” ~ Bharati Mukherjee
- “My Bible tells me that if we train a child in the way he should go when he is old he will not turn from it. I think faith and guidance can help fortify a young woman’s sense of self, a young man’s sense of responsibility, and a sense of reverence all young people for the act of sexual intimacy.” ~ Barack Obama
- “When I do photoshoots for men’s magazines, I don’t do lingerie, I don’t do skimpy bikinis because I feel like, for young women, setting the standard of you can be sexy as hell, but you don’t have to have your ass hanging out. Just me personally, I just don’t feel that its necessary to project sexy. I feel like I can project that from the inside out. I can wear something a little sexy, but I don’t need to take it to that next level.” ~ Meagan Good
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“The things young women read nowadays and profess to enjoy positively frighten me.” ~ Agatha Christie
- “And young women, please understand that if you dress immodestly, you are magnifying this problem by becoming pornography to some of the men who see you.” ~ Dallin H. Oaks
- “If you meet a girl in whose presence you feel a desire … to do your best, … such a young woman is worthy of your love” ~ Henry B. Eyring
- “May I mention earrings and rings placed in other parts of the body. These are not manly. They are not attractive. You young men look better without them, and I believe you will feel better without them. As for the young women, you do not need to drape rings up and down your ears. One modest pair of earrings is sufficient.” ~ Gordon B. Hinckley
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“All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can’t.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “An important aspect of the ebbing of sex was that other things became interesting. Sex obliterates the individuality of young women more often than it does that of young men, because so much more of a woman than a man is used by sex.” ~ Diana Athill
- “I was captivated by Sherrie Flick’s meticulous and intelligent study of Margaret and Vivette, and the men they share. Reconsidering Happiness is a courageously intimate novel about the young women of modern America, their friendships, their betrayals, and their anxious cravings for everything from sex to pastry.” ~ Jim Crace
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“Young women especially have something invested in being nice people, and it’s only when you have children that you realize you’re not a nice person at all, but generally a selfish bully.” ~ Marjorie Holmes
- “This is what sexual liberation chiefly accomplishes-it liberates young women to pursue married men.” ~ George Gilder
- “I never want to lose the story-loving child within me, or the adolescent, or the young woman, or the middle-aged one, because all together they help me to be fully alive on this journey, and show me that I must be willing to go where it takes me, even through the valley of the shadow.” ~ Madeleine L’Engle
