Ten Girls to Watch Quotes

“Taking care of yourself is one of the hardest jobs -- don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise. It's much easier to take care of others.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“The real question isn't whether you like Robert, it's whether you like yourself when you're with Robert...”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“It sounds like a lot when you summarize it, but I don't do all of it every day. If you want to know the truth, most days I feel like I'm miserably behind and only doing about half of what I should be doing. But when you look back you can see that you're building something. I think people who say 'Don't look back' are crazy. I wouldn't survive if I weren't looking back and patting myself on the back all the time for making it this far.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“Experience is like evidence. When you're young and don't have much experience yet, you don't have much basis for confidence. All you really have is hope, and that can get shaken pretty easily. But as years go by, you start to gather this evidence. You made it through this or that and you did okay, maybe not perfectly, but okay, so when you stumble, which you will, you can look back and say, 'Well, I survived that, so I can probably survive this.' Or there will be things you're really proud of, evidence of your abilities, and you can look back on those things and say, 'I did it then, I can do it again.' Right now, you're just building up those experiences.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“But this? Pure serendipity. And maybe that made it the most precious thing of all because it could so easily not have happened. Maybe, once chance plays so big a part in your life, you realize more is out of your control that you'd like to think.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“We get so used to thinking success means on thing,' she said. 'Like you can take a snapshot and see if you have it. It's not like that. It's your whole life, and you have years and years to work with. I always wants to tell young people, don't be so hard on yourself. Life is long. Be patient.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“That great, life-changing happiness could come from something you started out thinking was terrible was a pretty comforting thought. The words 'you never know what you'll grow to love' echoed in my head”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“Experience is like evidence. When you're young and you don't have much experience yet, you don't have much basis for confidence. All you really have is hope, and that can get shaken pretty easily. But as years go by, you start to gather this evidence. You made it through this or that and you did okay, maybe not perfectly, but okay, so when you stumble, which you will, you can look back and say 'Well, I survived that, so I can probably survive this.' Or there will be things you're really proud of, evidence of your abilities, and you can look back on those things and say 'I did it then, I can do it again.' Right now, you're just building up those experiences.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch

“There's part of me that still loves her. And part of me knows we could have made it work. But I guess the way I think about it is a little like binding your feet. You can wrap them all snug and maybe they feel fine for a while, but then your feet get bigger, and it's terrible. You can push through the pain and learn to do everything you need to do on your tiny feet. And maybe that's a prize-worthy choice. But Susan and I decided we couldn't do it.”
― Charity Shumway, Ten Girls to Watch