Girls
Quotes - Boys are suffering, in the modern world
“At
no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good
constitution perished from too much learning.”
―
Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things
“One
of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United
Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience,
was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the
world?...
If I
had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra:
"Educate girls.”
―
Shashi Tharoor, The Elephant, the Tiger, and the Cell Phone: Reflections on
India, the Emerging 21st-Century Power
“Boys
want to have fun, and girls need to feel wanted.”
―
Robert Black
“There
was an odd rule throughout the College that no girl might buy a book.”
―
Jane Ellen Harrison, Reminiscences of a Student's Life
“Boys
are suffering, in the modern world. They are more disobedient—negatively—or
more independent—positively—than girls, and they suffer for this, throughout
their pre-university educational career. They are less agreeable (agreeableness
being a personality trait associated with compassion, empathy and avoidance of
conflict) and less susceptible to anxiety and depression,172 at least after
both sexes hit puberty.173 Boys’ interests tilt towards things; girls’ Boys are
suffering, in the modern world. They are more disobedient—negatively—or more
independent—positively—than girls, and they suffer for this, throughout their
pre-university educational career. They are less agreeable (agreeableness being
a personality trait associated with compassion, empathy and avoidance of
conflict) and less susceptible to anxiety and depression,172 at least after
both sexes hit puberty.173 Boys’ interests tilt towards things; girls”
―
Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“He
would have liked spending a little time with one of the girls himself. Instead,
he had to settle for sleeping in a room with a bunch of guys. It was a total
sausage fest, he thought.”
―
Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel
“Toni
smiles. Her eyes are all crinkled and sparkly and Mary finds it very difficult
to look away. She isn’t quite sure what to do and tugs her thumbs into the belt
loops of her jeans just to do something with her hands and Toni is still
smiling at her.”
―
Maartje van Sandwijk, Long Overdue
“They
wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning
her she was strong.”
―
Robin Wasserman, Girls on Fire
“A
woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must.
A
man to be happy, however, must yearn for his woman more than his liberty.
This
is the rightful order.”
―
Roman Payne, Hope and Despair
“Scent
is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly
tuned, she needs no other. I will forgive her a large nose, a cleft lip, even
crossed-eyes; and I’ll bathe in the jouissance of her intoxicating odour.”
―
Roman Payne
“It's
not new, our valuation of young female people for how they can serve, satisfy,
and satiate. Our girls are both the platter and the meal, and we eat them
up--we eat their meat, we lap up their sweetness, we covet and control and
consume.”
―
Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
“for
frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground
for
burned mermaids and sick vampire girls
for
wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair”
―
Francesca Lia Block, How to (Un)cage a Girl
“Pandora
opened the box with the new high-heels, put them on and went out to town.”
―
Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
“So,
if anyone ever tells you no, if anyone says your voice isn't important or your
dreams are too big, remember these women. They persisted and so should you.”
―
Chelsea Clinton, She Persisted
“What's
'suitable for kids' defines what sort of kids we as a society want. And right
now, the girls society wants are the ones who can fit on a short list—while the
list for boys is without borders or end.”
―
Jason Porath, Rejected Princesses: Tales of History's Boldest Heroines,
Hellions, and Heretics
“Most
girls recently out of finishing school are like soufflés: puffed up, not very
substantial inside, and prone to collapsing at the slightest provocation.”
―
Gail Carriger, Blameless
“I
wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to
see the world through a girl's eyes. Maybe they knew more than boys. Maybe they
understood things that boys could never understand.”
―
Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“Girls
are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because
there's anything in the meat and matter of our living cells that makes us
naturally better but because we're trained for it from birth. Trained to make
other people feel good. Trained to serve the coffee, fill in the forms,
organise the parties and wipe the table afterwards. Trained to be feisty, if we
must, but not strong. To be bubbly, not funny. You must at no stage appear to
have a body that functions in a normal human way, that pisses and shits and
sweats and farts and falters. Decorate the prison of your body. Make yourself
useful. Shut up and smile.”
―
Laurie Penny, Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution
“She
must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at
colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before,
her exaggerated moans.”
―
Emma Cline, The Girls
“So,
the darkness hid the little girl in herself,
to
protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.”
―
Sweara Ahmed
