Promising Young Women Quotes

“I was afraid, really, of being the main character in my own life. I choose to be someone that things happen to, because it was easier than being someone who made things happen.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“Our company is teeming with women under thirty, and men approaching or over fifty. That is how the food chain works. Dozens of attractive young women do the grunt work for a handful of men, and the women get filtered out by motherhood. It is the corporate version of natural selection.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“Because you can’t keep shoving yourself to the bottom of yourself. Hiding in the shadow of someone else’s life is not a life your heart will accept.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“It’s very hard to make sense of a woman when you don’t know how she feels about her mother.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“I came to understand that nice bras – like Carlsberg, hairless pubic areas and skinny women – are a thing that men are told to like, but aren’t actually all that bothered about. Whenever I went on a miserable diet, Max would always say the same thing. ‘Men don’t love skinny women. Men who love themselves love skinny women.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“Only you decide how important you are.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“We women are taught to make everything we do seem unimportant. And most of us buy into it.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“Of all the relationship advice I’ve given over the years, this is the only one I truly believe: you can be with someone who loves different movies to you, or different music to you, or even is a different religion to you. But it will never work out with someone who wants to go on different holidays to you.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“Only you determine the asking price. Only you can decide how important you are. Not your old boyfriend. Not the new client. Not him outside.”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women

“Copyright Published by Virago ISBN: 978-0-3490-0992-6 All characters and events in this publication, other than those clearly in the public domain, are fictitious”
― Caroline O'Donoghue, Promising Young Women