Girls
Quotes - She wants me to ruin her
“I
am become a hard, thankless, graceless girl, and it was the only way I could do
it.”
―
Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth
“Part
of our shared tragedy - we recognized it at once - was that we never separated
from our mothers, which meant we liked girls more than the world like them,
which is to say more than they liked each other, let alone themselves.”
―
Hilton Als, White Girls
“If
asked to make a drawing, little girls almost always create scenes with at least
one person, while males nearly always draw things—cars, rockets, or trucks.”
―
Christina Hoff Sommers, The War Against Boys: How Misguided Feminism Is Harming
Our Young Men
“We're
so lucky to have family like we do."
"We
are. And maybe we can even add to it."
Leaning
back, I looked at him in surprise. "Did I hear that right?"
He
shrugged. "I figure I'm not that old. Might be fun to give the girls a
little brother."
"Or
sister."
He
paused. "Um ... a house with four girls in it?"
Giggling,
I kissed his lips. "Five. Don't forget your wife."
He
sighed. "We're going to need more space. And I'm going to need a bigger
swear jar.”
―
Melanie Harlow, Irresistible
“Dear
Reader,
These
stories, fables and memories are all true in one way or
another.
These
stories are about you and me.
These
stories feature:
—
girls who kill
—
girls who are killed
—
girls who are alive
—
and girls who are otherwise.”
―
Allyse Near, Fairytales for Wilde 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.”
―
Henry James
“She
wants me to ruin her
And
my pen makes her into poetry!”
―
Avijeet Das
“She
passed a hand over her eyes. A year and more now, that she had needed glasses.
'Look',
those glasses said from her desk. 'Look how much you are not like the others.
You grow older and your eyes wear out. In case you could ever mistake yourself
for belonging'.
Marya
supposed this was why no one asked after stolen fairy tale girls. What
embarassment they turn out to be. They grow tempers; they join the army; they
need glasses. Who wants them?”
―
Catherynne M. Valente, Deathless
“Forgiveness
is not about you or your past. It is about you releasing your great future.
Your future is better than your past.”
―
Dele Andersen, The Healing Méndez
“That
evening the sexes of the quadrilles were reversed, with all the little girls as
sailors, and all the little boys as grisettes – it was a ravishing sight.
Nothing inflames lust like this sensual little switch: one is pleased to find
in a little boy that which makes him resemble a little girl, and a girl is much
more alluring when, in order to please, she borrows from the sex one would
prefer her to have.”
―
Marquis de Sade, The 120 Days of Sodom
“The
same patriarchy that oppresses women oppresses nonhuman animals. Farmed animals
and “housewives,” “lab” animals and prostitutes, dancing bears and girls in the
sex trade—all have too long been exploited by the same patriarchal hierarchy
wherein the comparatively weak are exploited for the benefit of the powerful.
Those
who are aware of history, of patriarchy and of the feminist movement, tend to
understand how difficult it is—and how important—for people to rethink basic
behaviors in order to bring about deep and lasting change. We must rethink how
we speak, how we spend our time, and what we consume. This is as true for
fighting sexism as it is for fighting speciesism—or any other form of
domination, exploitation, and oppression. We must change our lives first, and
most fundamentally. I hope that
readers
working to improve the lives of girls and women . . . will realize that they
can and must choose not to continue to exploit nonhuman animals while working
to liberate girls and women.”
―
Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices
“Do
everything you can to get men to look at you, and when they do, pretend they
don't exist. Because only a slut looks back. Is that perfectly clear? Early
lesson on the female condition.”
―
Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God
“Your
whole picture of the world broke," he said, "and you felt like you
had gone mad."
"Yes."
"And
I didn't even notice."
"Boys.
They notice nothing.”
―
Salman Rushdie, Quichotte
“But
they tell you that if you hate yourself hard enough, you can grab just a tail
feather or two of perfection. Chasing perfection was your duty and your
birthright, as a woman, and I would never know what it was like—this thing,
this most important thing for girls.”
―
Lindy West, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
“girls,
it seemed, were just like magpies.”
―
Samantha Shannon, Because You Love to Hate Me: 13 Tales of Villainy
“I
don't believe they're very nice to girls; they're not nice to them in the
novels.”
―
Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady
“Why
are girls determined to have emotionally heated conversations when they're
drunk? In my observation, too much alcohol makes guys one-dimensional hornballs
and girls unpredictable basket cases, and under these dangerous circumstances
they attempt to walk into the nearest house party and look for love. And people
wonder why their relationships are so messed up.”
―
Katie Kacvinsky, First Comes Love
