Girls
Quotes - How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress
“Show
me a girl with her feet planted firmly on the ground and I'll show you a girl
who can't put her pants on.
-Annik
Marchand”
“Someday,
my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like
you and me.”
―
Heather Brewer, First Kill
“You
can always evaluate a man's character by the way he speaks about his ex
girlfriends and other women. When entering a new relationship or getting close
with a new guy, make sure you take notice of the language he uses when
referring to other girls”
―
Miya Yamanouchi, Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
“Last
year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different
kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and
ideas. Zora woke up this morning hopeful that a transformation of this kind
might have visited her in the night, but, finding it hadn't, she did what girls
generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.”
―
Zadie Smith, On Beauty
“She's
using me. And I like it.”
―
Alex Flinn, Cloaked
“We
are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year
plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the
do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read,
and witty, intellectually curious, always moving … We pride ourselves on
getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink
coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins … We
are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never
want to be as passive-aggressive are our mothers, never want to marry men as
uninspired as our fathers … We are the daughters of the feminists who said,
“You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”
―
Courtney Martin
“A
crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus
was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a
language that only they understood. And Joss wasn't sure at all that he would
ever understand them.”
―
Heather Brewer, First Kill
“My
father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught
Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human
beings without a boy by our side.”
―
Amy Engel, The Book of Ivy
“How
dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being
who does that, is no human.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“I
was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.”
―
Elizabeth May, The Falconer
“The
perk about being the quiet girl was not many people really got to know you,
which left you the advantage of surprise if you ever decided to switch gears in
situations just like this.”
―
Penelope Douglas, Corrupt
“But
if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell
convenience, I became, through the summer, rather an authority on hers. I
discovered, from observing the trash-basket outside her door, that her regular
reading consisted of tabloids and travel folders and astrological charts; that
she smoked an esoteric cigarette called Picayunes; survived on cottage cheese
and Melba Toast; that her vari-colored hair was somewhat self-induced. The same
source made it evident that she received V-letters by the bale. They were torn
into strips like bookmarks. I used occasionally to pluck myself a bookmark in
passing. Remember and miss you and rain and please write and damn and goddamn
were the words that recurred most often on these slips; those, and lonesome and
love.”
―
Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Three Stories
“A
woman that knows her worth doesn't measure herself against another woman but
stands strong, calmed and self confident.”
―
Oscar Auliq-Ice
“Does
our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are
our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and
then lead us to our ultimate destinies?”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I fantasize
the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and
unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“I
frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty
frights.”
―
Jane Austen, Persuasion
“I
like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance
with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got
used to it .”
―
Ali Shariati
“Something,
somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and
experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying
attention to the signs.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“I’ve
grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space
inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“This
is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever
find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every
right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Two
girls discover the secret of life
in a
sudden line of poetry.”
―
Denise Levertov, Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“Poor
Oscar. Without even realizing it he'd fallen into one of those Let's Be Friends
Vortexes, the bane of nerdboys everywhere. These relationships were love's
version of a stay in the stocks, in you go, plenty of misery guaranteed and
what you got out of it besides bitterness and heartbreak nobody knows. Perhaps
some knowledge of self and women.”
―
Junot DÃaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
