Girls
Quotes - No one can make you feel inferior without your consent
“She
wore trousers, because skirts were stupid, and boots, 'cuz stuff needed to be
kicked.”
―
Brandon Sanderson, Shadows of Self
“Girls
struggles with mixed messages: Be beautiful, but beauty is only skin deep. Be
sexy, but not sexual. Be honest, but don’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Be
independent, but be nice. Be smart, but not so smart you threaten boys.”
―
Mary Pipher, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
“There
were girls who would tear you apart with their lips.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald
“No
one can make you feel inferior without your consent". Stop consenting.
Stop colluding. Stop being that nice little girl you were taught to be in
childhood!”
―
Lois P. Frankel, Nice Girls Don't Get the Corner Office: 101 Unconscious
Mistakes Women Make That Sabotage Their Careers
“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’
interests tilt towards people.174 Strikingly, these differences, strongly
influenced by biological factors, are most pronounced in the Scandinavian
societies where gender-equality has been pushed hardest: this is the opposite
of what would be expected by those who insist, ever more loudly, that gender is
a social construct. It isn’t. This isn’t a debate. The data are in.”
―
Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
“Girls
disappear. Girls are brought to secret places to be used and nothing is done,
because it's how things are. Because they're only girls.”
―
T.E. Carter, I Stop Somewhere
“Emotional
pain was the price I paid on the path to becoming a woman. So excuse me if I’m
not clueless like a little girl.”
―
J.A. ANUM
“She
is magic! But she does not know it!”
―
Avijeet Das
“I
can curl my hair and paint my nails and wear my hand-sewn summer dresses. I can
roll dice and design costumes for heroes and flip through comic books. All as
myself. Finally.”
―
Whitney Gardner, Chaotic Good
“There's
the thing with girls, isn't it?', he'd said. 'Whenever they stand on the edge
of something, you can't help it, you can't. You think, push. That's all it
would take. Just one little push.”
―
Shobha Rao, Girls Burn Brighter
“We
police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for
virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out,
since the loss of virginity is a process that usually involves two people of
opposite genders).”
―
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, We Should All Be Feminists
“...because
every girl should feel caressed with love and passion.”
―
Ken Poirot
“You
can give birth to a beautiful, perfect human being, but requited love isn’t
guaranteed for her—or for any of us.”
―
Elin Hilderbrand, Winter Street
“Girls
don't want boys, girls want high-speed internet and dragons.”
―
Speranza
“Poor
Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of love. How badly
they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop
songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like "sunset"
and "Paris." Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force;
the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting
at his girlfriend on the bus. Sorrow for Sasha locked up my throat.”
―
Emma Cline, The Girls
“When
I am assertive, I’m a bitch. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He bossed
up. No negative connotation behind ‘bossed up.’ But lots of negative
connotation behind being a bitch. [...] When you’re a girl, you have to be
everything. You have to be dope at what you do but you have to be super sweet
and you have to be sexy and you have to be this, you have to be that, and you
have to be nice. It’s like, I can’t be all those things at once. I’m a human
being.”
―
Nicki Minaj
“I
thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel
better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was
thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the
princess.'
'She
didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on
their own.”
―
Pat Murphy, The Wild Girls
“You
can try and stop boys all you want, but in this world they all have a mind of
their own and act on it. We girls can't afford that.”
―
Kyle Labe, Butterflies Behind Glass & Other Stories
“She
is never alone, because she always has herself. In her own company, she is
always enough.”
―
Chocolate Socrates
“She
is magic. But she does not know it!”
―
Avijeet Das
“Tiny
rooms opened up onto the corridor, rooms that would have been like monastic
cells if each of the girls hadn't made hers comfortable in her own way and
according to her own taste. As she passed, Andie got glimpses of a riot of
draped fabrics like a gypsy tent in one, a tapestry loom in another, painted
murals of garden scenes in a third.”
―
Mercedes Lackey, One Good Knight
“Dear
Princess,
One
day you will stand in the mirror to see the woman that you have become, your
beauty would drown your scars, your victories would be more than your battles,
you will finally see yourself through the eyes of the father. Pay attention to
the process, God's process is as good as the outcome HE pursues.”
―
Kingsley Opuwari Manuel
