#young woman

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

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

We can never, ever say it enough: every woman - especially every young woman-has to take charge of her health... and do what's right for her! ↗

— Debbie Wasserman Schultz

#enough #especially #ever #every #health

It's because it was at a time when women didn't have any power. It was so unusual for a young woman in her 20s to have power that I seized the power but tried not to flaunt it. ↗

— Marlo Thomas

#because #her #i #power #seized

It's easier to write about Socrates than about a young woman or a cook. ↗

— Anton Chekhov

#cook #easier #socrates #than #woman

But John Landis wrote a good relationship which is really what the film's about. A very straightforward young woman who's very sure of herself and she meets a young man who needs some taking care of. ↗

— Jenny Agutter

#care #film #good #good relationship #herself

I had an idea for a story about a young woman who was living with people who were different, not just superficially different - such as hair colour, or eye colour, or skin colour - but different in some significant way. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#colour #different #eye #had #hair

There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great. ↗

— Judy Chicago

#great #i #many #more #now

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. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

#couple #course #got #having #health