Girls
Quotes - One child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world
“Can
you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from
loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice
in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and
doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe
many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward,
tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for
whatever you can get,” “You’re not smart enough to achieve your dream so don’t
even try,” or “Look at your past… you should hate yourself way more than you
actually do!”?
Welcome
to your Little Monster.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“The
prettier the wine bottle, the higher the likelihood sorority girls will buy
it.”
―
Lauren Leto
“Boys
don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one
fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake
her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.”
―
Louisa May Alcott, Jo's Boys
“She
wasn’t soft or pretty; she was hard-edged and cold, like one of those cold
bronze statues surrounded by high fences and crowned in razor wire. Don’t touch
me, such defenses said, but it wasn’t enough to halt a breach, no. She had
thought people only picked the soft-petaled, sweet-smelling flowers, but some
people took thorns as a challenge.”
―
Nenia Campbell, Escape
“She’s
adorable .” “How would you know?” “I’m gay, not blind. Her hair’s all poofy and
she’s got a great nose. I mean, a great nose. And, what? What do you people
like? Boobs? She seems to have boobs. They seem to be of approximately normal
boob size. What else do you want?”
―
John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
“In
the past few decades quite a few people have suggested -- citing most often the
offence of impossible proportions -- that Barbie dolls teach young girls to
hate themselves. But the opposite may be true. British researchers recently
found that girls between the ages of seven and eleven harbor surprisingly
strong feelings of dislike for their Barbie dolls, with no other toy or brand
name inspiring such a negative response from the children. The dolls
"provoked rejection, hatred, and violence" and many girls preferred
Barbie torture -- by cutting, burning, decapitating, or microwaving -- over
other ways of playing with the doll. Reasons that the girls hated their Barbies
included, somewhat poetically, the fact that they were 'plastic.' The
researchers also noted that the girls never spoke of one single, special
Barbie, but tended to talk about having a box full of anonymous Barbies. 'On a
deeper level Barbie has become inanimate,' one of the researchers remarked.
'She has lost any individual warmth that she might have possessed if she were
perceived as a singular person. This may go some way towards explaining the
violence and torture.”
―
Eula Biss, The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2009
“If
pregnant girls were sinner, what were liars called?”
―
Holly Cupala, Tell Me a Secret
“Robots
are like Mars: they need
girls.
Boys
won't do;
the
memesoup is all wrong. They stomp
when
they should kiss
and
they're none too keen
on
having things shoved inside them...
It's
not a robot
until
you put a girl inside. Sometimes
I
feel like that.
A
junkyard
the
Company forgot to put a girl in.”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, The Melancholy of Mechagirl
“Even
if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be
pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for
our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and
accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“Clusters
of distant lights was the view of Mankind that he liked the best. The lights
had the archaic charm of little fires on a plain, and the frailty about them,
if it did not excuse anything, at least explained a lot of Man's stubborn
ruthlessness. Mankind had not started the mess that was life, after all. And on
the whole, it had been an interesting species to be a part of, the girls
especially, as long as you remembered to watch your back.”
―
Jean-Christophe Valtat, Aurorarama
“That
said, pointing out inaccurate or unrealistic portrayals of women to younger
grade school children-ages five to eight-does seem to be effective, when done
judiciously:taking to little girls about body image and dieting, for example,
can actually introduce them to disordered behavior rather than inoculating them
against it. I may be taking a bit of a leap here, but to me all this indicated
that if you are creeped out about the characters fromMonster High, it is fine
to keep them out of your house.”
―
Peggy Orenstein, Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Frontlines of
the New Girlie-Girl Culture
“One
child, one teacher, one pen, and one book can change the world.”
―
Malala Yousafzai
“Who
whose smell in the air of her room, whose fingerprints all over her friends’
secret places.”
―
Tana French, The Secret Place
“Someday
there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite
of the male, but something in itself, something that makes one think not of any
complement and limit, but only life and reality: the female human being.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“If
ever I was running, it was towards you.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“I
love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand…
it’s not their fault.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth
“Like
most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no
further.”
―
Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind
