Quotes of: Young-child Keyword

The desirable virgin is sexy but not sexual. She's young, white, and skinny. She's a cheerleader, a babysitter; she's accessible and eager to please (remember those ethics of passivity!). She's never a woman of color. SHe's never a low-income girl or...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

By erasing any nuance and complexity about porn and sexuality, the virginity movement gives young women only two choices of who they can be sexually: sluts or not sluts. While the first choice doesn't seem attractive, I can guarantee you that most yo...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

I think it's child abuse to have someone in the public eye too young. Society basically values wealth and fame and power at the cost of well-being. In the case of a child, it's at the cost of someone's natural development. It's already hard enough to...

Alanis Morissette

If you would only stop rating a child’s ability by your own; and try to find out just what ability a child has, our young folks throughout this big world would show a surprisingly willing disposition to try things which would bring your approbation...

Gadsby

According to the virginity movement, men have no self-control when it comes to anything sexual.

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

Sex for pleasure, for fun, or even for building relationships is completely absent from our national conversation. Yet taking the joy out of sexuality is a surefire way to ensure not that young women won't have sex, but rather that they'll have it wi...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

Now this is a most satisfactory and important thing to think about, for brutality will not,—cannot,—accomplish what a kindly disposition will; and, if folks could only know how quickly a “balky” child will, through loving and cuddling, grow i...

Gadsby

Children are still the way you were as a child, sad and happy in just the same way--and if you think of your childhood, you once again live among them, among the solitary children.

Letters to a Young Poet

What other movement has ensured that young women have the rights that they have today? Feminism is responsable not only for the decline in violence against women over the last decade, but also for equal pay and rights legislation, reproductive justic...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

I think virginity is fine, just as I think having sex is fine. I don't really care what women do sexually, and neither should you. In fact, that's the point. I believe that a young woman's decision to have sex, or not, shouldn't impact how she's seen...

The Purity Myth: How America's Obsession with Virginity is Hurting Young Women

To retreat into oneself and meet nobody for hours on end—that is what one must be able to attain. To be alone, as one was alone as a child, when the grown-ups walked about involved in things which seemed great and important, because big people look...

Letters to a Young Poet

As a young child, I played the violin. I think that that started the spark.

Peggy Fleming

I think that if you start teaching about giving back and helping other people young, that will be a given for your child their whole life.

Eva LaRue

The initial trauma of a young child may go underground but it will return to haunt us.

James Garbarino

What I learned as a young child continues to have a tremendous impact on my life today.

Novak Djokovic

The great thing about getting married young like I did and having a child so young is that he gets to know all the relatives. He knew his great-grandmother, and we sat down together and tied down the stories of our uncles and aunts. They were quite t...

Tony Danza

Surely, she was too young to have so many ghosts.

City of Heavenly Fire

As a really young child, I was listening to the echoes of the age before, music hall and stuff like that, as well as classical bits on the radio.

Roy Harper

I've never really felt like I was a child actor. Just an actor who happened to be quite young.

Saoirse Ronan

I know what it's like to have a young child at the weekend and feel like there is nothing to see in the movie theatre. Family is so important.

Teri Hatcher

I'm going to let people know that it's cool to have a child and be young and still be a good mom. It's really tough, but I'm doing it.

Brandy Norwood