Girls
Quotes - Girls never heard what is said once
“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
“Women
deformed by the pornographic sexual template perceive other women as
masturbatory objects.”
―
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“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
“Strong
is building people up, not tearing each other down.”
―
Kate T. Parker, Strong Is the New Pretty: A Celebration of Girls Being
Themselves
“This,
the “Vagina Effect”, is one of the saddest byproducts of pornography: to
attract the attention of jaded males, female performers now feel they have to
flash their vaginas – not too obviously, lest more orthodox fans be alienated,
but 'accidentally' so as to sidestep disquieting accusations of vulgarity.”
―
Antonella Gambotto-Burke
“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
“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
