Girls Quotes - By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy
“When
no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us,
man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman, a wanderess.”
―
Roman Payne, The Wanderess
“I'll
walk as fast as I want, and I will take breaks whenever I feel like it. There
is no one to follow, no one to keep up with. There's just me and this one
beautiful day, this one moment, right here, now.”
―
Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
“Ô,
the wine of a woman
from
heaven is sent,
more
perfect than all
that
a man can invent.
When
she came to my bed and begged me with sighs
not
to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise,
I
told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes,
then
unbraided her body of its clothing disguise.
While
our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fine
I
devoured her mouth, tender lips divine;
and
I drank through her thighs her feminine wine.
Ô,
the wine of a woman
from
heaven is sent,
more
perfect than all
that
a man can invent.”
―
Roman Payne
“Girls
and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate
men's behavior and misbehavior and follow in male professions. Once the
uncertainty of such transitions is over it will emerge that women have only
passed through the spectrum and the variety of those (often laughable)
disguises in order to purify their truest natures from the distorting
influences of the other sex. Women, in whom life abides and dwells more
immediately, more fruitfully and more trustingly, are bound to have ripened
more thoroughly, become more human human beings, than a man, who is all too
light and has not been pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of
a bodily fruit and who, in his arrogance and impatience, undervalues what he thinks
he loves. This humanity which inhabits woman, brought to term in pain and
humiliation, will, once she has shrugged off the conventions of mere femininity
through the transformations of her outward status, come clearly to light, and
men, who today do not yet feel it approaching, will be taken by surprise and
struck down by it. One day (there are already reliable signs which speak for it
and which begin to spread their light, especially in the northern countries),
one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify
the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does
not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence:
the female human being.
This
step forward (at first right against the will of the men who are left behind)
will transform the experience of love, which is now full of error, alter its
root and branch, reshape it into a relation between two human beings and no
longer between man and woman. And this more human form of love (which will be
performed in infinitely gentle and considerate fashion, true and clear in its
creating of bonds and dissolving of them) will resemble the one we are
struggling and toiling to prepare the way for, the love that consists in two
solitudes protecting, defining and welcoming one another.”
―
Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet
“He
was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to
create like a god.”
―
Roman Payne
“Even
without overt sexual abuse, all young women are known to experience a descent
into low self-esteem at puberty, probably as they realize their role as sexual
objects. The highly sensitive girl will sense all the implications even more
and make self-protection a higher priority. Some overeat to become
unattractive, some overstudy or overtrain so they have no free time, some pick
one boy early and hang on to him for protection.”
―
Elaine N. Aron, The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World
Overwhelms You
“Meggie
dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes
before more damage was done them, then she began picking among the grass blades
where she thought the pearls might have fallen. Her tears were blinding her,
the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth
grieving for.”
―
Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds
“What
if she doesn't worry about her body and eats enough for all the growing she has
to do? She might rip her stockings and slam-dance on a forged ID to the Pogues,
and walk home barefoot, holding her shoes, alone at dawn; she might baby-sit in
a battered-women's shelter one night a month; she might skateboard down Lombard
Street with its seven hairpin turns, or fall in love with her best friend and
do something about it, or lose herself for hours gazing into test tubes with
her hair a mess, or climb a promontory with the girls and get drunk at the top,
or sit down when the Pledge of Allegiance says stand, or hop a freight train,
or take lovers without telling her last name, or run away to sea. She might
revel in all the freedoms that seem so trivial to those who could take them for
granted; she might dream seriously the dreams that seem to obvious to those who
grew up with them really available. Who knows what she would do? Who knows what
it would feel like?”
―
Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth
“That's
who unconditional love is for - dogs and their masters, fools and their gods.”
―
Elana K. Arnold, What Girls Are Made Of
“Beauty
is an illusion.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“Boys
often have permission to become men without the forfeiture of their
desirability. And so these men write stories that grasp at girls who are ghosts
twice over: first by being dead and second by being shallow shadows of actual
girls, the assorted fragments of men's aging imaginations rather than the deep
and dimensioned creatures that real girls are.”
―
Alana Massey, All the Lives I Want: Essays About My Best Friends Who Happen to
Be Famous Strangers
“One
of the main functions of a push-up bra is to lower the number of mothers who
seem like mothers.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“Lions
and tigers and pissed-off girls, oh my.”
―
Katie Bayerl, A Psalm for Lost Girls
“For
thousands of years, the dumb, uncivilized, stone-age society has reduced women
to mere prizes to be won, objects to be shown off, and playthings to be abused
and toyed with. Now is the time to stop this primitive madness.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
“By
drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“This
oath is the oath we all swear. Not to a god, or a master, or to the Ludu
Achillea...but to our sisters who stand here with us. Our sisters. This is the
oath that binds us all, one to one, all to all, so that we are no longer free.
We belong to each other. We are bound to each other. In swearing to each other,
we free ourselves from the outside world, from the world of men, from those who
would seek to bind us to Fate and that which would make us slaves. We sacrifice
our liberty so that, ultimately, we can be truly free.”
―
Lesley Livingston, The Valiant
“Many
of the boys and men who are regarded as immature by some females are so deemed
merely because they do not want to get married someday … or soon.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“What
a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years,
would take a thousand men a hundred years.”
―
Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
