#young woman

I had to be extremely strong to fight off Mr Hitchcock. He was so insistent and obsessive, but I was an extremely strong young woman, and there was no way he was going to get the better of me. ↗

— Tippi Hedren

#extremely #fight #get #going #had

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

#interesting #man #misery #mother #nobody

It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman. ↗

— Saffron Burrows

#exposed #film-making #grown #having #helps

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

#compare #first #idiot #man #obviously

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

#claws #hasn #much #sharpened #she

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

#goddess #love #love is #merely #mistake

As a relatively young woman - I'm 33 - I hope to one day have a family and already have commitments. If and when I'm elected as an MP, I would face a choice: take my family with me to London each week or be apart for four, maybe five, nights a week. ↗

— Lucy Powell

#apart #choice #commitments #day #each

At Home in the World is the story of a young woman, raised in some difficult circumstances, and how she survives. It tells a story of redemption, not victimhood. ↗

— Joyce Maynard

#difficult #difficult circumstances #home #how #raised

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fortune #say #sports #successful #surveys

Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

#any #earthly #force #old #old woman