“All Jane Austen novels have a common storyline: an attractive and virtuous young woman surmounts difficulties to achieve marriage to the man… — P.D. James Copy Share Image
I am a young woman, with a regional accent, from a working class family, who has had a pretty standard education. So… — Steph McGovern Copy Share Image
I sat next to a young woman on a plane once who bombarded me for five hours with how she had decided… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
“But listen to me when I say this. You are an exceptional, talented, and brilliant young woman. Do not ever let anyone… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
“Her companion, also in black, appeared as a well-formed young woman about 18, completely possessed of that ephemeral precious essence youth, which… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
What truly gives me joy is when I get a letter from a young woman who says they saw a programme, then… — Lucy Worsley Copy Share Image
Stefani was very unique and that wasn't always appreciated by her peers and, as a result, she went through a lot of… — Cynthia Germanotta Copy Share Image
Showing a real human body and a woman who is looking at her body without shame - that alone is a radical… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
“One of the secrets to life, Epiphany, is to find your gifts and focus on those. Leave your liabilities in the dust… — Lisa Wingate Copy Share Image
I had read the criticisms of me and my movies and they were discerning. They said that Crawford needs a new deal,… — Joan Crawford Copy Share Image
“And the story is told that a young woman taking an examination for a Communist party post was unsure of the answer… — Roberson Copy Share Image
“Such physical matters were nice, yet to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by… — Robert James Waller Copy Share Image
“If I were a modern writing about a modern young woman I would have to do her wedding night in grisly detail.… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“In Oakland, he saw two slum children sword fighting on a slag heap. In Palo Alto, a puffy fop in bursting jodhpurs… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
It has been hard to muster the resources to support fledgling democracies and to intervene on behalf of the most desperate. The… — Condoleezza Rice Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, there was a naïve and innocent girl who thought she could tame the beast and live happily ever… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
“I was born near Sydney, Australia, a long time ago. A lovely young woman named Dawn married me in 1972 and we… — P.J. Hartnett Copy Share Image
“As a self-confessed Pre-Raphaelite - a term that by the 1880s was interchangeable with ‘Aesthete’ - Constance was carrying a torch whose… — Franny Moyle Copy Share Image
“Drizzt looked long and hard at the young woman, tje dedicated warrior, and he understood that Danica, too, had been forced into… — R.A. Salvatore Copy Share Image
“My visit to Her Highness was an agreeable surprise for me. Instead of being ushered into the presence of an over-decorated woman,… — Manu S. Pillai Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the Hungarian humorist Ferencz Karinthy captures the spirit of the situation best in a tableau about a bored businessman who amuses… — George Bailey Copy Share Image
“The very human-looking, terrified eyes of the young woman are burned into my mind. “What are they?” I ask, still shaken. “They’re… — Laurie Forest Copy Share Image
“From what I could see, he already wants to cooperate with you.” Her ready response stalled. She wasn’t sure if she’d heard… — Jody Hedlund Copy Share Image
“Honorable, happy, and successful marriage is surely the principal goal of every normal person. Marriage is perhaps the most vital of all… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
I have not changed my view about abortion, but I've changed my approach to it, because I really believe that if I'm… — Mark Robinson Copy Share Image
I'm always writing to a younger version of myself, or a young woman who is like I was. I want that girl… — Melissa Febos Copy Share Image
“In Venice, Grant let slip a remark that would provide fodder for many satirists: he told a young woman what a fine… — Ron Chernow Copy Share Image
There was a basket at her feet. She reached into it and lifted out the head of a young woman, a marquise.… — Jennifer Donnelly Copy Share Image
My fifth mother is Mother Nature - the things I had to learn on my own, the understanding I had to come… — Erykah Badu Copy Share Image
I have not changed; I am still the same girl I was fifty years ago and the same young woman I was… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
If I was a supervillain, I'd create this universal, cosmic rule where every time an old, shitty, right-wing white man says something… — Jack Antonoff Copy Share Image
“A strange stillness had settled over him, as well, a waiting. The earth was shifting beneath him, and he had the hideous… — Anne Stuart Copy Share Image
“His chest expanded with a rising sense of pride for the young woman who had gone unappreciated by her own people. The… — Vivienne Savage Copy Share Image
I went to Concord, a young woman from the backwoods, firm in belief that Emerson was the first of living men. He… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What began, after a few more minutes, to irritate him was that she didn’t even attempt to be engaging—made no effort toward… — Adelle Waldman Copy Share Image
I suffer from depression and anxiety, and having a show and having a character that portrays a young woman who is dealing… — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
“And to what degree does the young woman invent the man she marries? She often sees in him possibilities that no one… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
It wasn't until a year later, when a young woman with Danish pastries on either side of her head knelt down in… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
As a young woman, I was so eager to please that I served others' happiness and even their values before my own.… — Kathryn Harrison Copy Share Image
“A young woman, if she fall into bad gands, may be teazed, and kept at a distance from those she wants to… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image