Young Woman

Famous quotes containing the words young and/or woman:

“[Children] do not yet lie to themselves and therefore have not entered upon that important tacit agreement which marks admission into the adult world, to wit, that I will respect your lies if you will agree to let mine alone. That unwritten contract is one of the clear dividing lines between the world of childhood and the world of adulthood.”
—Leontine Young (20th century)

“Joy, the, ‘well . . . joyfulness of
joy’M’many years
I had not known it,’ the woman of eighty
said, ‘only remembered, till now.’”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)