Girls
Quotes - Humanity’s elite were little girls
“The
poor girl liked to be thought clever, but she hated to be thought bookish; she
used to read in secret and, though her memory was excellent, to abstain from
showy reference. She had a great desire for knowledge, but she really preferred
almost any source of information to printed page; she had an immense curiosity
about life and was constantly staring and wondering. She carried herself with a
great fund of life, and her deepest enjoyment was to feel the continuity
between the movements of her own soul and agitations of the world.”
―
Herny James
“She
said "I want you to ruin me"
And
my pen made her into poetry!”
―
Avijeet Das
“She
said "Go ahead and ruin me!"
And
my pen made her into a story!”
―
Avijeet Das
“I
realized that the words I write and the stories I tell bring out the best in
others, especially young girls looking for their voice.”
―
Liz Faublas
“Humanity’s
elite were little girls. Humanity existed so that they could exist. ¶ Women and
buffoons were crippled. Their bodies contained errors of construction that
could inspire no other reaction but laughter. ¶ Only little girls were perfect.
Nothing stuck out from their bodies, no grotesque appendages, no idiotic
protuberances. They were of marvelous design, streamlined to present no
resistance to life. ¶ Of no material utility, they were the most necessary of
all because they embodied humanity’s beauty – its real beauty, that which makes
living a summer breeze, where nothing clashes and the body is pure celebration
from head to foot. One has to have been a little girl to know how exquisite it
is to have a body.”
―
Amélie Nothomb, Le Sabotage amoureux
“Most
little girls don’t want to play with trucks, as almost any parent can attest.
Including me: when my son gave his daughter Eliza a toy train, she placed it in
a baby carriage and covered it with a blanket so it could get some sleep.”
―
Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming
Our Young Men
“Three
girls walking
down
the ramp
Oh
yeah, three girls
who
just wanna
have
some fun!
Sassy
and classy girls
you
can't stop admiring
Oh
yeah, three girls
walking
down the ramp
Oh
yeah, three girls
who
just wanna
have
some fun!
Exquisite
and enticing girls, you get captivated by,
Oh
yeah, three girls
walking
down the ramp
Oh
yeah, three girls
who
just wanna
have
some fun!”
―
Avijeet Das
“Girls
be like 'im fine' but then they write poems in the notes app...”
―
Nitya Prakash
“What
you think determines which outfit's okay. Don't judge your appearance by what
others say.”
―
Patricia Toht, Dress Like a Girl
“A
womanizer has no better fish to fry if employed as a teacher in a girls’ high
school.”
―
Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
“You're
a beautiful flower, fall fearlessly.”
―
Akash S. Bansal, Desires and Destiny
“We
waited for our periods with excitement! ...We were delighted by the different
silky weaves, the various crotch-conforming shapes, and the promise they held:
The future is coming.”
―
Ariel Levy, The Rules Do Not Apply
“BLUEBERRY
GIRL
Ladies
of light and ladies of darkness and ladies of never you mind,
This
is a prayer for a blueberry girl.
First,
may you ladies be kind.
Keep
her from spindles and sleeps at sixteen,
Nightmares
at three or bad husbands at thirty,
These
will not trouble her eyes.
Dull
days at forty, false friends at fifteen–
Let
her have brave days and truth,
Let
her go places that we’ve never been, trust and delight in her youth.
Ladies
of grace and ladies of favor and ladies of merciful night,
This
is a prayer for a blueberry girl.
Grant
her your clearness of sight.
Words
can be worrisome, people complex, motives and manners unclear,
Grant
her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear. Let her
tell stories and dance in the rain, somersault, tumble & run,
Her
joys must be high as her sorrows are deep.
Let
her grow like a weed in the sun.
Ladies
of paradox, ladies of measure, ladies of shadow that fall,
This
is a prayer for a blueberry girl.
Words
written clear on a wall.
Help
her to help herself, help her to stand, help her to lose and to find,
Teach
her we’re only as big as our dreams.
Show
her that fortune is blind.
Truth
is a thing she must find for herself, precious and rare as a pearl.
Give
her all these and a little bit more:
Gifts
for a blueberry girl.”
―
Neil Gaiman
“She
saw the extraordinary in the ordinary, the magic in the mundane.”
―
Claire Legrand, Sawkill Girls
“When
we had finally become friends, when the four of us trusted each other enough to
let the world surrounding us into our words, we whispered secrets. Pressed side
by side by side, or sitting crossed legged in our newly tight circle. We opened
our mouths and let the stories that had burned nearly to ash in our bellies
finally live outside of us.”
―
Jacqueline Woodson, Another Brooklyn
“I
thought home needed to be tall and luminous, a glowing building with a
luxurious setting. Status. What I failed to understand is home is not where I
place my head down at night or the color of my furniture. Home is the people I
surrounded myself with, the ones I break bread with. The keepers of my secrets
and my fears. It is to be loved and to give love without inhibitions.”
―
Lilliam Rivera, Dealing in Dreams
“Girls
we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
―
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“When
we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles”
―
Laurie Halse Anderson, Shout
“Lada
nodded. But here, in this sweltering cell, far from her people and her land,
she did not feel like a dragon. For the first time in a long time, she felt
like a girl. It terrified her. Because there was nothing in the world more
vulnerable to be than a girl.”
―
Kiersten White, Bright We Burn
