Girls
Quotes - Some girls look good in Diamonds, some girls make diamonds look good
“To
me, socializing was like sinking to the bottom of a deep, deep ocean... Until
eventually you couldn't take it anymore, and had to come up for air"
-
Shimamura - Adachi to Shimamura”
―
Hitoma Iruma, 電波女と青春男 1
“Girls
who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and
learn more than they were ever meant to know.”
― A.
Deborah Baker, Over the Woodward Wall
“Be
inconvenient. Raise your hand despite their groans. Voice you opinions. Enter
debates. Classrooms are not only boys’ domains.”
―
Nikita Gill, The Girl and the Goddess: Stories and Poems of Divine Wisdom
“It
wasn’t quite a romantic infatuation. There are levels of readiness. Young girls
don’t entertain the idea of sex, their body and another’s together. That comes
later, but there isn’t nothing before it. There’s an innocent displacement, a
dreaming, and idols are perfect for a little girl’s dreaming. They aren’t real.
They aren’t the gas station attendant trying to lure you into the back of the
service station, a paperboy trying to lure you into a toolshed, a friend’s
father trying to lure you into his car. They don’t lure. They beckon, but like
desert mirages.”
―
Rachel Kushner, The Flamethrowers
“Girls
who go looking for trouble usually find it.”
―
Alix E. Harrow, The Once and Future Witches
“Some
girls look good in diamonds, some girls make diamonds look good.”
―
Atticus Poetry, The Truth About Magic
“Our
mother the City is not a merciful mother,' she says as she gathers my hair in
one hand. 'To be a girl in this city is to be weak. It is to call evil things
down upon you. And the City is not kind to weak things. She sends Death the
Endless to winnow the frail from the strong. You know this.”
―
Kester Grant, The Court of Miracles
“Never
and never, my girl riding far and near
In
the land of the hearthstone tales, and spelled asleep,
Fear
or believe that the wolf in a sheepwhite hood,
Loping
and bleating roughly and blithely shall leap,
My
dear, my dear,
Out
of a lair in the flocked leaves in the dew dipped year,
To
eat your heart in the house in the rosy wood.”
―
Dylan Thomas, In Country Sleep, and Other Poems
“And
yet, despite the high numbers of girls experiencing sexual harassment in
schools, only 12 percent said they ever reported it to an adult. "Some
researchers claim that sexual harassment is so common for girls that many fail
to recognize it as sexual harassment when it happens," said the AAUW
report. A 2014 study, published in Gender & Society, of students in a
Midwestern city also found that girls failed to report incidents of sexual
harassment in school because they regarded them as "normal." Their
lack of reporting was found to stem from girls' fear of being labeled "bad
girls" by teachers and administrators, who they felt would view them as
provoking how they were treated. They also feared the condemnation of other
girls, some of whom were shown to be unsupportive, accusing them of
exaggerating or lying. Many girls saw everyday sexual harassment and abuse as
"normal" male behavior male behavior and something they had to
ignore, endure, or maneuver around.”
―
Nancy Jo Sales, American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers
“I
had not been exposed to these kinds of situations, so this event was not
trivial to me. Instead it was horrifying. It was also shameful: when a shameful
thing is done to you, the shamefulness rubs off on you. You feel dirtied.”
―
Margaret Atwood, The Testaments
“We’re
women. Not girls. I am a twenty-seven-year-old pioneer in the wellness space
who reincorporated her company as a B-corp without needing to hire a lawyer.
Would you refer to my male equivalent as a boy?”
―
Jessica Knoll, The Favorite Sister
“Cinderella
does not represent contemporary girls.
Today’s
girls are no ‘damsels-in-distress.’ They figure and solve problems, invent
solutions, and herald in the new world order.”
―
Tina Sequeira, Bhumi: A Collection of Short Stories
“Jannit
liked Jenna, who reminded her of how she had been as a girl: a confident,
taking-charge kind of person. That was how girls should be.”
―
Angie Sage, Fyre
“Behind
every great woman... is another great woman.”
―
Kate Hodges, I Know a Woman: The Inspiring Connections Between the Women Who
Have Shaped Our World
“As
study after study has taught us, there is no tool for development more
effective than the empowerment of women.”
―
Kofi Annan
“It's
a cruel trick we play on girls, exposing them to these realities at the same
time that we exert the most social pressure on them to ignore and hide the
anger they provoke. We look away from girls' anger and collude in the systems
that erode their sense of self worth; then we turn around and wonder what it is
about their "nature" that makes them so lacking in confidence as
women.”
―
Sorya Chemaly
“Most
girls--' I began. Lola snapped up her hand.
'Be very
careful what you say next, Henry Page,' she said. 'Very few good things come
out of sentences that begin with "Most girls.”
―
Krystal Sutherland, Our Chemical Hearts
“'Shall
anything bolder be found than united woman?' Mr Spinks murmured.”
―
Thomas Hardy, Under the Greenwood Tree
