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30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30 QUOTES

30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30 QUOTES

1 " It’s rare that I have a boyfriend- that only happens if I fall in love. I’ve noticed that people who are never in a relationship just to be in a relationship keep their childlike spark because they don’t end up settling for things that make them unhappy, and they never feel as if they took less than what was out there for them. So for me, being single is what I do, and falling in love is the exception. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

2 " Most of us fear that in growing old, we’ll become a shell of ourselves. But, of course, it’s the youthful versions of ourselves that are our shells; we must leave them behind like a snakeskin. We must grow out of ourselves to grow beyond our old limits, or else risk being suffocated by the sediment of our own history. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

3 " I now believe in growing old gratefully, not gracefully. I haven’t found the secret to life, or love, or eternal youth. But I do know now that youth is not the blossom but the bud, and that though one cannot always be young and wild, if you are willing to learn, to grow, to outrun the mileposts of your own wildest dreams, you can always be winsome and lucky, lovely and free. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

4 " But I have learned that love is the one area where women should give themselves a break and cut bait. Men are better at that—if a guy isn’t feeling great about the relationship, he will leave and not look back. As women, we’re more analytical and more accommodating. We tend to hang in there and try harder. But if you’re with a dude who’s texting other girls, bye-bye. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

5 " So, as women, we’ve got to be pretty damn amazing to realize early on that physical perfection is neither achievable nor useful, and that all that fixing can be toxic. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

6 " You know when you’re in yoga and you’re looking around, thinking, Wow, I wish I were that flexible, or How come she can hold that pose? Well, my friend has a saying: “Stay on your own mat.” Not physically, but mentally. In life, we’re all made differently: our families, our frames, our personalities and talents. Appreciate how you were made, and stay on your mat. That’s where happiness lies. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

7 " It’s not right to spend money you don’t have to perpetuate a lie about who you are. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

8 " Making peace with my past was the first step; being grateful for it was the second. Now, at last, I can appreciate the woman those experiences created: me. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

9 " you were thirty, you were a failure,” she told the audience. “And now a lot of young women think that if they aren’t seriously successful before thirty, they’re a failure. So I want to say to you that there is life and dreams and surprises after thirty—and forty, and fifty, and sixty, and seventy-seven! Believe me, life is one long surprise. And you can’t plan it, but you can prepare. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

10 " I learned not to invest too much in a relationship before I really know how the other person feels. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

11 " Love isn’t always enough. It’s a hard lesson because we’re raised to believe that it is—it’s in every story we hear. But just because you love somebody and they love you back doesn’t mean your relationship makes sense or that it’s a good one for you both to be in. Having chemistry with someone is important, yes, but the most important thing is that the person you’re with makes you happy. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

12 " One of the best pieces of advice I’ve ever received was from my grandmother, who said, “A woman always has to keep something of her own, even if it’s a jar of quarters.” The other was from my agent, another wise woman, who told me twenty years ago: “You don’t have to tell everything you know. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

13 " I always say I was one woman before his death and have been another ever since. The one before thought she could fix anything if she just worked hard enough. The woman after was forced to accept that sometimes life has plans for us and our loved ones that are far, far beyond our grasp. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

14 " no one finds a braggart wise. And once I no longer thought of listening as “waiting to talk,” I began to have more meaningful conversations. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

15 " no matter how huge the changes I’d been through, I was still the same person at thirty that I’d been at twenty-seven and fifteen and nine. And would be (I can now attest to the truth of this) at thirty-eight and forty-four and beyond. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

16 " love might be forever but life was not. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

17 " Before was preparation: leaving home, going to college, launching a career, getting married, having a child, realizing that love might be forever but life was not. After was living with the choices I’d made: that man, that child, that profession, that city, that self. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

18 " The world can't decide what's beautiful. So you decide, okay? "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

19 " But I still envisioned thirty—in my own life, in my friends’ lives, in life in general—as a kind of train station. At that station, you got off the train you’d been riding up to that time, the train that had your parents on it, your siblings and your school friends, your textbooks and your pink diary with the lock and key—everything that had been trailing behind you for your entire life. And you got ready to board a different train, a train that would take you the rest of the way. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30

20 " I think a very key thing for women is to refuse to let anyone tell you you’re banned, you’re out of fashion, you don’t look the right way. Put your energy into a career that will be there for you regardless of the naysayers. "

― Pamela Redmond Satran , 30 Things Every Woman Should Have and Should Know by the Time She's 30