Rachel Simmons Quotes

Rachel Simmons
American Author
Girl Me Parents Work You Yourself
Related authors: F. Scott Fitzgerald Frederick Douglass Helen Keller Henry David Thoreau Joyce Meyer Mark Twain Og Mandino Zig Ziglar
Ours is not a culture that cares much for the work of care. Rachel Simmons
Work Culture Care Cares Ours Much
As parents, we must be mindful that our actions are matching our words. Rachel Simmons
Words Parents Mindful Our Must Matching Actions
Many of us endure pain in the service of beauty every single day. We rip off our hair with hot wax, jam our soft skin into modern-day corsets, and burn our scalps with dyes. Rachel Simmons
Service Day Hair Beauty Single Skin Pain Every Our Wax Corsets Rip Hot Single Day Off Jam Burn Endure Modern-Day Us Many Every Single Day Soft
Girls must understand not only their moral obligation but their power to be allies to each other at parties and other potentially unsafe spaces for girls. Rachel Simmons
Obligation Moral Obligation Girl Power Other Moral Must Only Potentially Allies Unsafe Parties Understand Spaces Each
From childhood to adolescence, girls face mixed messages about displaying power and authority. Rachel Simmons
Face Girl Power About Adolescence Messages Mixed Authority Childhood Displaying
Isn't prom just a fun dance that hardworking students deserve? Sure, but it's also an event where girls internalize damaging cultural messages. Rachel Simmons
Dance Girl Prom Students Also Messages Sure Cultural Just Where Internalize Fun Event Deserve Hardworking Damaging
To defer to someone else's definition of a life well-lived is a Faustian bargain. Rachel Simmons
Life Defer Else Definition Someone Bargain
The Internet has transformed the landscape of children's social lives, moving cliques from lunchrooms and lockers to live chats and online bulletin boards and intensifying their reach and power. Rachel Simmons
Internet Power Live Online Reach Cliques Children Transformed Boards Moving Social Landscape Lives
Most parents would not hesitate to assume responsibility for their child's behavior on a playground, at school, or in someone else's home. What happens online should be no different. Parents should talk with their children about computer ethics, stipulate rules of conduct, and - most importantly - establish consequences. Rachel Simmons
Home School Behavior Ethics Responsibility Parents Consequences Assume Else Hesitate Rules Would About Someone Online Computer Most Talk Importantly Conduct Child Establish Children Different Happens Should Playground
When I did the original research for 'Odd Girl Out,' I asked every bullied girl I interviewed to tell me what she needed most from her family. The answer truly surprised me. It wasn't having the best solutions, calling the school, or trying to act like everything was okay. It was empathy. Rachel Simmons
Best Family Me School Girl Research Every Everything Okay Out Tell Solutions Having Empathy Like Most She Calling Answer Odd Surprised Bullied Truly Trying Did Asked Act Original Her Needed
Empathy isn't the same thing as expressing emotions. It's not about sharing your feelings - it can be really uncomfortable if a parent cries or loses strength at the moment her daughter needs it most. The message sent is that you need to be taken care of, not the other way around. Rachel Simmons
Strength Needs You Emotions Care Daughter Feelings Same Thing Other Cries Way About Parent Uncomfortable Taken Sharing Empathy Most Message Around Loses Same Sent Really Your Moment Expressing Her Thing Need
A girl's social networking profile is a persona she constructs, a photoshopped billboard on the information superhighway. It also offers a salve for the anxiety so many girls feel about relationships, providing the answers to burning social questions like, What do other people think of me? Do people like me? Am I normal? Am I popular? Am I cool? Rachel Simmons
Me People Anxiety Girl Think Other Relationships About Networking Constructs Feel Like Also She Am Answers Normal Providing Questions Offers Persona Burning Information Social Billboard Cool Many Popular Profile
Social media forces girls to bear witness to painful realities of relationship that were previously hidden from view. It is a new kind of TMI, or 'too much information': publicly posted photographs of an outing or party you did not attend, or a personal web page like Formspring, can send a girl into paroxysms of anxiety and grief. Rachel Simmons
Relationship You Grief Anxiety Witness Social Media Too Much Girl Party Too Hidden Kind Photographs Posted Outing Web Bear Attend New Like Forces New Kind Were Did Personal Send Information Realities Social Much Page View Painful Media Publicly
My experience is that aggression is a universal trait in human beings - girls feel it in any sort of environment, same-sex or co-ed. Rachel Simmons
Experience Girl Environment Feel Sort Trait Any Human Same-Sex Human Beings Aggression Beings Universal
Happiness doesn't just happen. It must be pursued. And if the pursuit of the 'ultimate currency' of happiness helps us choose occupations that confer present and future benefit, and these choices, in turn, motivate us to succeed, this strikes me as perhaps the most powerful non-cognitive skill of all. Rachel Simmons
Happiness Future Me Benefit Strikes Must Pursued Pursuit Powerful Perhaps Most Most Powerful Occupations Motivate Ultimate Currency Just Happen Succeed Turn Us Skill Choices Choose Helps Present
It's not easy to let our kids be less than perfect. Rachel Simmons
Our Kids Easy Perfect Than Less
Raising your hand when you're not sure you have the right answer helps you take risks with your ideas and put yourself out there. Rachel Simmons
You Risks Yourself Out Take Put Ideas Sure Answer Hand Your Helps Right Right Answer Raising
Girls who use jokes to be nasty are often hiding other feelings they are struggling to express. Rachel Simmons
Jokes Girl Feelings Other Hiding Struggling Nasty Often Use Who Express
Feeling jealous doesn't make you a terrible person. Rachel Simmons
Jealous You Feeling Make Terrible Person
Our friends are barometers of our own lives: We look to our BFFs to better understand how we're doing ourselves. Our friends help us make sense of what we have, what we aspire to, and what we truly long for. Rachel Simmons
Better Long Own Sense Our Ourselves Look Make Understand How Doing Truly Friends Us Aspire Help Lives
Being jealous of a friend doesn't mean you hate her or wish her ill. Rachel Simmons
Jealous You Hate Wish Friend Being Mean Ill Her
I realized that I wanted a Rhodes Scholarship, not because I wanted to go to graduate school but because I wanted to win a famous award. Quitting forced me to realize I was on the wrong track and that I had lost touch with who I was and what I cared about. Rachel Simmons
Me Win School Lost About Touch Had Scholarship Wrong Forced Track Because Go Graduate Graduate School Famous Quitting Wanted Realize Realized Who Award Cared
Real body satisfaction starts when you learn to see yourself for more than your weight. Rachel Simmons
You Yourself Starts See More Weight Learn Real Than Body Your Satisfaction
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