Girls
Quotes - Being born a girl is not a shame
“In
the twenty-first century, the vagina has come to eclipse the female face.”
―
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“Being
born a girl is not a shame, being born
with
such cheap mindset is the real shame.”
―
Garima Pradhan, A Girl That Had to be Strong
“It's
the sting of knowing that exactly as the world starts expanding for most boys,
it begins to shrink for [girls].”
―
Soraya Chemaly, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger
“No
one has to tell her that her body makes her irrelevant to that entire
conversation.
Grace
has never questioned her body's place in the world. She's always believed the
laws of movies and TV shows: Chubby girls are sidekicks, not romantic leads;
sometimes they get to be funny, but more often they're the butt of jokes; if
they're powerful, they'e evil- they're Ursula the sea witch from The Little
Mermaid: they are not heroines and they are certainly not sexy. These are the
rules. This is the script.”
―
Amy Reed, The Nowhere Girls
“She
hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever
wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her
skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum,
able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at
all.”
―
Charles de Lint, A Circle of Cats
“No,
little boys are much wimpier than little girls.”
―
Hiromi Kawakami
“I,
who was never quite sure
about
being a girl, needed another
life,
another image to remind me.
And
this was my worst guilt; you could not cure
nor
soothe it. I made you to find me.”
―
Anne Sexton, To Bedlam and Part Way Back
“Women
facing sexual violence rarely speak up or call the police because they know
what awaits them. Even good men hate it when women express their feelings,
often responding with mockery, insults or threats. There’s a box in the minds
of American men, a box labeled 'Girl Problems,' into which men can stuff any
complaint made by women they wish to ignore.”
―
Israel Morrow, Gods of the Flesh: A Skeptic's Journey Through Sex, Politics and
Religion
“All
of this is typical girl-fear. Once you realize that The Exorcist is,
essentially, the story of a 12-year-old who starts cussing, masturbating, and
disobeying her mother—in other words, going through puberty—it becomes apparent
to the feminist-minded viewer why two adult men are called in to slap her
around for much of the third act. People are convinced that something spooky is
going on with girls; that, once they reach a certain age, they lose their
adorable innocence and start tapping into something powerful and forbidden.
Little girls are sugar and spice, but women are just plain scary. And the
moment a girl becomes a woman is the moment you fear her most. Which explains
why the culture keeps telling this story.”
―
Sady Doyle
“Women
feel the most secure when they see true love for themselves in their partner’s
eyes. And for them, security equals happiness.”
―
Robert Black
“I
don't have a type. I like any girl that likes me.”
―
Asa Akira, Insatiable: Porn - A Love Story
“Referred
to euphemistically to children as 'privates', the vagina is no longer permitted
to be private. Instead, it is photographed independently of the face, stripped
of identity, of emotional and historical and economic context, and in the
service of men: public.”
―
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“Girls
never heard what is said once – it always has to be repeated.”
―
Godwin Inyang, Beauty Is A Burden
“Girls
would never hear what is said once – it always has to be repeated.”
―
Godwin Inyang, Beauty Is A Burden
“She
hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever
wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her
skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum,
able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at
all.
(This
text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by
the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest)”
―
Charles de Lint, The Cats of Tanglewood Forest
“Luna
hated her split tongue. It gave her a slight lisp. Bluebell just thought it was
cute.”
―
Rachael Arsenault, Everyday Magic
“Alice
placed her trembling hand atop Rhæna’s, marveling at how well they fit; how
surely they belonged. It was almost as if they were the same person—one heart,
one mind, one body to shelter them both in warmth; against the cold, against
the world. A beautiful monster born from something as pure as love, that
existed in serenity.”
―
Grace Curley, The Light that Binds Us
“we
(girls) are very fond of playing games even when we grow up. We only change our
toys and play with men.”
―
Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“girls
can get something they want to get with their own styles already. So, they do
not need theft.”
―
Mustafa Donmez, Red-White Love: The Love of Liverpool FC
“Girls
be like, I want someone to understand me and support me and I wont give a damn
about him.”
―
Nitya Prakash
“If
you think girls suck, you're hanging out with the wrong ones. I've heard so
many women say they don't have girlfriends, and they get along better with men.
That's sad to me because when confident, happy, secure women come together in
friendship, amazing things happen.”
―
Cara Alwill Leyba, Girl Code
“Do
you like girls? Is. That. A. Thing. You. Do?”
―
Camille Perri, When Katie Met Cassidy
“In
Afghanistan girls can dream, but only the dreams of boys come true.”
―
Jean Sasson, For the Love of a Son: One Afghan Woman's Quest for Her Stolen
Child
“Bear
the very erratic of those whom you're so close and hold tightly the most
atrocious attitude of such soul mates. But if you can't carry and control over
such immoral doings then have a combating way with yourself and welcome to the
most interesting life, full of conflicts.”
―
Raj Kumar Koochitani
