Quotes About Youth

I spent my teenage years in Paris when my dad was stationed there, and I'd look at women in their forties and think, 'That's the age I want to be.'

I derive no pleasure from talking with a young woman simply because she has regular features.

I do hope that for the young women watching the show they know it is heightened reality and just grown ups playing teenagers. That's not how it is supposed to go. Just keep it to yourself.

I only seem to date younger women.

The romantic chivalric tradition takes, or at any rate has in the past taken, the young man's eye off women as they are, as companions in shipwreck not guiding stars.

I'm not out for quotas. I'm out to attract the best young men and women of our nation.

We should be writing more great roles for women, period. Another problem is that movies are generally made for 14-year-old boys, and 14-year-old boys want to watch 25-year-old action heroes.

As a woman leader, I try to take every opportunity I can to do what my mentors did for me - engaging with young women and take them seriously.

Like many young women, I grew up believing that (1) physical ability wasn't very important, and (2) I didn't have any.

The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.

All of my hopes and dreams lie with young women.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

You need younger men in Africa, men and women in African politics.

My mom was in a punk rock band called The Trash Women and they toured and all of that. She had me when she was 17.

I was wanting to be a kid at 18 instead of being a young woman.

As long as children and young men and women find pleasure in study, they will continue studying throughout life - and upon that depends their happiness.

I like to involve myself in charities that help children and also young women in need.

I don't like very young women very much. Never did.

For women in my family, in Korean culture, women are really valued in their youth, and then when they get older, it's like they almost become irrelevant.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

The reason some younger women were willing to go out with my flabby, ageing self was that no one of their own age would put up with them for more than 10 minutes.

I do hope that young men and women will start to think for themselves and start to take responsibility for their own thoughts.

Some men can maintain cragginess and weary masculinity. Women just get old.

Women have the stress of being beautiful, of age and youth. Men don't have all that. And with women, that stress causes a lot of mistakes and bad choices - a lot of not being their true self.