Adora Svitak quotes

Since the age of four, I've been exploring what I can do with the written word: everything from championing literacy and youth voice to raising awareness about world hunger. (Adora Svitak)

Success on the front of women's rights will look like a world not only with obvious advances - where no girl is denied access to education, for instance - but also one with more subtle changes in how we regard gender and gender stereotypes.

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Any good teacher knows how important it is to connect with students and understand our culture.

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Young people are often asked, 'What do you want to be when you grow up?' and given advice about how to lead meaningful adult lives, but where's the encouragement to lead meaningful lives right now?

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We always reference kids but very rarely ask their opinion. Our inexperience might be what gives us the ability to teach our elders something, due to the fact that we are not jaded or cynical.

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As children, we have a tenuous idea of love; we often try to quantify it with how much we feel seen and heard.

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I cannot emphasize enough the importance of family encouragement - not just for me, but for everyone.

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The first thing anyone can do, about any issue, is get informed.

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To try to teach ignoring technology is to ignore the progress that we have made over the last century. If school is preparation for the real world - a real world that is increasingly technology-driven - then to ignore technology is to become obsolete.

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History is made every day. The challenge is getting everyone to pay attention to it.

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A lot of negative words adults call the young, like 'naive,' 'impulsive' and 'way too connected online,' are all things we can turn into strengths to help us. (Adora Svitak)

Prom has all the elements of a popular story. It reeks of all-Americanness, tension, drama. It has romance. Pretty dresses. Dancing. Limos. High school. Coming of age.

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There are lots of different interpretations of the word 'prodigy.' My own is of someone who is talented and tries to help other children. So in that respect I could be called one, although I don't think I'll go off the rails.

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I was thrilled to be able to read at three. I just thought everyone loved reading as much as I did.

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None of my friends don't have Facebook accounts. Op-eds and studies can highlight our decreased enthusiasm for Facebook 'til the cows come home, but it doesn't change the fact that we are chained to the beast. Voluntarily, of course.

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It seems we're not only uninformed about our present, we're ignorant of our past.

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Make sure that your kids or the kids in your life have an opportunity to share their ideas, and to teach you something about what we know.

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Mostly, I avoid worrying since the time spent doing it could be spent more constructively.

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With writing, I can express myself, really, and share my ideas and just let my thoughts flow out.

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The point of my work is to make it clear that all youth can make 'big miracles' happen.

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The fact that a baby can be born today and condemned to a life of hardship, struggle, and discrimination simply because of sex is enraging. (Adora Svitak)

My family joke that I'm really a very senior person who accidentally happens to be 11.

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CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.

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Students read for tests and because their parents ask them to, but I think it's very important to tell children that you can read for fun, too, and to understand human spirit. It builds empathy.

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We're used to the characteristics of social media - participation, connection, instant gratification - and when school doesn't offer the same, it's easy to tune out.

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Adora Svitak

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Photo: Ed Schipul, CC BY-SA 2.0

Occupation: American Author
Born: October 15, 1997
Quotes count: 40

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