Adora Svitak Quotes

• The traits the word ‘childish’ addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

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  Tags in Irrational, Thinking

• 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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  Tags in Instance, Women

• 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.

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  Tags in Exploring, Written

• Hoping to instill my love of learning in other children, I taught my first class at a local elementary school the year my first book, ‘Flying Fingers,’ debuted; since then, I have spoken at hundreds of schools, classrooms and conferences around the world.

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  Tags in Elementary, Learning

• I would say that kids are great in many ways, because I think that we are less hampered when it comes to ‘this costs too much’ or ‘that’s impossible’.

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  Tags in I Think, Great

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

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

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  Tags in Really, Person

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

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  Tags in Worrying, Spent

• 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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  Tags in Teach, Make

• 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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  Tags in Reading, Everyone

• I realise I’m still a child, though I do feel older.

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  Tags in Realize, I Feel Like

Adora Svitak (11)

Birth:	15th October, 1997
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Author, Writer

About

Adora Lily Svitak is an American child prodigy and internationally published author, known for her essays, stories, poems, blogs, and full length books. Adora first became known to the public when, at the age of 6, she was recognized on local news in Seattle for her writing abilities. Adora became an object of national interest at the age of 7 when she appeared with Diane Sawyer on Good Morning America.

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