49 Rachel Simmons Quotes for You to Enjoy

Rachel Simmons

American Author

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A healthy friendship is one where you share your true feelings without fearing the end of the relationship. It's also one where you sometimes have to let things that bug you slide. The tough moments will make you wiser about yourself and each other. They will also make you stronger and closer as friends. Rachel Simmons

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Reacting to every slight or letdown is neither realistic nor fair; it sends the message that we expect the other person to be flawless in relationship. But no one is perfect, and no one relationship can ever meet all our needs. Rachel Simmons

If smart phones had been around for women in the 1950s, 'The Feminine Mystique' might never have been written. The depression and ennui of housewives would have been blunted by Pinterest and Facebook. Rachel Simmons

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There are no shortcuts to genuine friendship. Relationships are built over time. Rachel Simmons

Friendship Time Shortcuts Relationships Over Genuine Built

Harassment is one of puberty's darkest, most unreported rites of passage. Rachel Simmons

Darkest Rites Most Passage Puberty Harassment

Self-knowledge is the foundation of real success. Rachel Simmons

Success Self-Knowledge Real Real Success Foundation

For the self-conscious or insecure girl, technology can become a crippling addiction, an insatiable hunger not just for connection but the elusive promise of being liked by everyone. Rachel Simmons

Technology Girl Become Addiction Everyone Elusive Crippling Hunger Insatiable Promise Insecure Self-Conscious Liked Just Being Connection

Prom drops girls squarely into the beauty spending pipeline. Rachel Simmons

Girl Beauty Spending Prom Drops Squarely Pipeline

Self-compassion encourages mindfulness, or noticing your feelings without judgment; self-kindness, or talking to yourself in a soothing way; and common humanity, or thinking about how others might be suffering similarly. Rachel Simmons

Having a baby on my own is a dream come true, but in my world, there's no sheepish spouse on his way home from a work trip to offer me a stretch of alone time. Rachel Simmons

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a stand against petty or protracted hostility between girls. Rachel Simmons

What teens share online is dwarfed by what they consume. Pre-Internet, you had to hoof it to the grocery store to find a magazine with celebrity bodies - or at least filch your mother's copy from the bathroom. Now the pictures are as endless as they are available. Rachel Simmons

When girls can be honest with each other, they can make mistakes on their own terms and discover through experience - and not through knee-jerk adult intervention - what a healthy friendship should look like. Rachel Simmons

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Painful breakups can have profound effects on the body and mind. Rachel Simmons

Mind Effects Body Painful Profound

We learn best when we're intrinsically motivated - that is, when we try something new for the sheer enjoyment of the experience. Rachel Simmons

Best Experience Try Something Something New New Learn Sheer Motivated Enjoyment

Secrecy is hardly new on Planet Girl: as many an eye-rolling boy will tell you, girls excel at eluding the prying questions of grown ups. And who can blame them? From an early age, young women learn that to be a 'good girl,' they must be nice, avoid conflict, and make friends with everyone. Rachel Simmons

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Launching a kid into college is about more than having the money to pay for it. Parents invest so much of their time and identities in the process that it can feel like a part time job. For many parents, the college your child ends up attending becomes a parenting grade. Rachel Simmons

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Taking full advantage of all that college offers can be tough for teens facing a major life transition under pressure to perform. Perhaps we should all lower our expectations and let kids find their way. Rachel Simmons

I've spent years in therapy excavating my endless, often fruitless drive to overachieve. I have learned that being successful hasn't made me happy. It's just made me successful. I even call myself a recovering overachiever. Rachel Simmons

Myself Me Happy Made Drive Spent Recovering Overachiever Call Learned Years Endless Often Just Being Fruitless Successful Therapy Even

Whether you chose a passive-aggressive husband, workaholic wife, or life of single motherhood, we are all officially allowed - and uniquely qualified - to critique our own life experience. Please don't pretend you're living mine. Rachel Simmons

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