Nancy Jo Sales Quotes & Sayings

Girls need to put down their phones sometimes and pick up books. — Nancy Jo Sales

the real stars - the ones who made it all the way up to that peak where they've been granted by adoring fans an almost godlike status - have always been special in some way, blessed with dazzling gifts and/or beauty, both talented and given to hard work. — Nancy Jo Sales

Putting on someone else's clothes is like putting on a mask. — Nancy Jo Sales

The APA surveyed multiple studies which found links between the sexualization of girls and a wide range of mental health issues, including low self-esteem, anxiety, depression, eating disorders, cutting, even cognitive-dysfunction. Apparently, thinking about being hot makes it hard to think: "Chronic attention to physical appearance leaves fewer cognitive resources available for other mental and physical activities," said the APA report. — Nancy Jo Sales

I think we really have to ask ourselves, are we really using to children to promote ourselves? — Nancy Jo Sales

I love to interview outrageous people who speak their minds; also, people who have some kind of mystery attached to them. — Nancy Jo Sales

Celebrities are not necessarily the richest people of all, but on the face of it, they seem to be representative of the very richest people. — Nancy Jo Sales

Kids started having their own cameras, en masse, in the 1960s. Kodak Instamatics, which came out in 1963, were inexpensive ($16) and easy to use, durable and small, the perfect size to fit in a child's pocket or the upper tray of a footlocker on its way to summer camp. The Instagram logo, in a conscious nod, echoes the look of the early Instamatics - a dark stripe on top, metallic on the bottom, with a round flat lens and viewfinder in the middle. The — Nancy Jo Sales

I'm concerned and alarmed about the images of girls and women that are broadcast every single minute. — Nancy Jo Sales

Now it was as if everybody had become their own fan. Everybody was their own paparazzi. — Nancy Jo Sales

Social media is not the same in 2013 as it was in 2003 - or even 2008 or 2011. You didn't carry around AOL chat in your pocket or look at it when you were in class. — Nancy Jo Sales

She posted a picture of herself in a T-shirt which said "FLAWLESS. — Nancy Jo Sales

I'm not a parenting expert by any means, but I've been interviewing and writing about kids for almost 20 years. — Nancy Jo Sales

The national hysteria over hippies and punks alike fell right in line with Puritan minister Ezekiel Rogers' admonition of 1657: "I find great Trouble and Grief about the Rising Generation. Young People are stirred here [in the colonies]; but they strengthen one another in Evil, by Example, by Counsel. — Nancy Jo Sales

It all goes together," Montana said. "Society wants to sell them things, so it makes them grow up faster. Sexism serves capitalism. — Nancy Jo Sales

The Mob loved Sinatra not just because he was Italian-American, but because he had crossed over into a nether world in which they could never belong. And he got there because he could do something few people in the world could do as well, and no one in the same way: he could sing. — Nancy Jo Sales

To se someone really getting to know who they are is a beautiful, beautiful, thing. — Nancy Jo Sales

That's why teenagers fascinate me - they're like children with drivers' licenses. Like children in that their impulses are so direct. — Nancy Jo Sales

Girls use social media in all kinds of ways. They use it to have friendships. They use it to be playful with each other, to make each other laugh. — Nancy Jo Sales

The real world we inhabit together is the one that matters; we need to find a way of navigating ourselves and our children back there, to the world of true and lasting connection. — Nancy Jo Sales

A landmark 2007 report by the American Psychological Association (APA) found girls being sexualized--or treated as "objects of sexual desire... as things rather than as people with legitimate sexual feelings of their own"--in virtually every form of media, including movies, television, music videos and lyrics, video games and the Internet, advertising, cartoons, clothing, and toys. Even Dora the Explorer, once a cute, square-bodied child, got a makeover to make her look more svelte and "hot. — Nancy Jo Sales

We're so very focused on ourselves and on self-promotion. It goes on all day with Facebook and Twitter and Instagram. — Nancy Jo Sales

Reading has always been like breathing for me, necessary for existing and thinking. But recently, I find, as I try to make it through the pages, my mind keeps wandering to my phone. What's happening there? What am I missing? — Nancy Jo Sales

We don't really even know how the Internet and technology are changing us, or our brains and our attention span. — Nancy Jo Sales

For many girls, the pressure to be considered "hot" is felt on a nearly continual basis online. The sites with which they most commonly interact encourage them to post images of themselves, and employ the "liking" feature, with which users can judge their appearance and, in effect, rate them. When girls post their pictures on Instagram or Snapchat or Facebook, they know they will be judged for their "hotness," and in a quantifiable way, with numbers of likes. Social media, which gave us selfies, seems to encourage an undue focus on appearance for everyone, but for girls, this focus is combined with a pervasive sexualization of girls in the wider culture, an overarching trend which is already having serious consequences. — Nancy Jo Sales

So why was Kim Kardashian famous? Because she was very good at marketing herself, that was all - and today, that was enough. Corporations are now people and people are now products, known as "brands". At a time when the 1 percent was getting richer, the 99 percent was suddenly trying to Keep up with the Kardashians. — Nancy Jo Sales

Prugo gazes at his image onscreen, cocking his head this was and that, making "sexy" faces, checking himself out. Inspired, he gets up and lifts up his shirt, showing off his bare midriff. Then he turns around and does a booty dance for the camera. — Nancy Jo Sales

Once upon a time, the American girl was a shining symbol of something fresh, spirited, and fully self-confident. Mark Twain said, "The average American girl possesses the valuable qualities of naturalness, honesty, and inoffensive straightforwardness; she is nearly barren of troublesome conventions and artificialities. — Nancy Jo Sales

So, schools will say they have a 'zero tolerance' for bullying, but they really don't want to deal with anything. — Nancy Jo Sales