But also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.
ADORA SVITAKNo matter what size you are, it still isn’t good enough.
More Adora Svitak Quotes
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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century.
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Everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger.
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All that you need to become an entrepreneur and change the world is a working brain – and pretty much nothing else.
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It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.
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The reality, unfortunately, is a little different, and it has a lot to do with trust, or a lack of it.
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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle.
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And when school doesn’t offer the same, it’s easy to tune out.
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There are lots of different interpretations of the word ‘prodigy.’
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A real world that is increasingly technology-driven.
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It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama.
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To show that you truly care, you listen.
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Recently did an on-line test called ‘What’s Your True Age?’ My result was 50-60 years old.
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Since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.
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Enthusiasm just creates bubbles; it doesn’t keep them from popping.
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My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children.
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Whether on store aisles or storefronts ads, magazine covers or TV show, we speak more to the profit margins of companies than the self-esteem of today’s girls.
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Then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.
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We’re used to the characteristics of social media – participation, connection, instant gratification.
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If we all understood we can learn from both older and younger people, then we’d have a better world.
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The goal is not to turn kids into your kind of adult, but rather better adults than you have been.
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By creating so many illusory images of physical perfection.
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Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook ’til the cows come home.
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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement.
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Companies would probably do better with CEOs who didn’t blow their own horn.
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I wouldn’t call myself a geek, but I do sometimes teach Mommy and Daddy stuff about computers.
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History is made every day.
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