Young Girls

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or girls:

    “Worst, when this sensualism intrudes into the education of young women, and withers the hope and affection of human nature, by teaching that marriage signifies nothing but a housewife’s thrift, and that woman’s life has no other aim.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “To girls and wives always alive and fated;
    To men and scholars always dead like Greek
    And always mistranslated.”
    —Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)