Quotes about Young woman

Explore a curated collection of 38 quotes about Young woman at QuotesRead.com. Discover timeless wisdom, insightful thoughts, and memorable words on Young woman from famous authors and thinkers around the world.

These tools were my parents’ way of saying: What you’re doing is important. We support it. We want to help you find your — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really w — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Though I was starved for contact, I didn’t stop to talk to any of these strangers. I had forgotten how to convincingly s — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I needed to begin respecting my own body’s boundaries. I had to draw clear lines. Ones that were sound in my mind and th — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I needed to stop hiding: I was raped. It was time to honestly be exactly who I was. I saw—the shame wasn't mine, it was — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
And the idea of light unexplainably produced out of nothing was haunting, it shook me. A flat drab mountain could produc — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was beginning to feel compassion for myself. — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I had stripped naked in front of men. Drunk. In morning’s somber brightness I tried to remember why I had done it. Total — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I doubted I could survive in the woods without these very basic things to help me. It seemed like a tremendous leap of f — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
It was suddenly Technicolor clear: the only thing holding me from giving myself vision this entire time had actually sim — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I realized that no, no one would actually come to save or even stop me, I had absolutely no choice. The scale tipped: th — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overt — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
It was heartbreaking to realize how we can fail the people we most love without even trying. — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
Absolutely devout in her complete care of my body, she had only taught me to be weak and voiceless. But I had unlearned — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I'd have to be impolite, an inconvenience, and sometimes awkward. But if I could commit, all that discomfort would add u — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I made a conscious effort to name my needs and desires. To carefully listen to and accurately identify what I felt. Hung — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I had no evidence. No physical signs of my rape existed anymore. My body had already purged them. That was the irreversi — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir
I was so much more powerful than anyone knew. I was an animal learning to fight back, instinctively, fiercely. I was a b — Aspen Matis, Girl in the Woods: A Memoir