Girls
Quotes - Girlfriend is injurious to health
“Herbenick
invited me to sit in on the Human Sexuality class she was about to teach, one
of the most popular courses on Indiana’s campus. She was, on that day,
delivering a lecture on gender disparities in sexual satisfaction. More than
one hundred fifty students were already seated in the classroom when we
arrived, nearly all of them female, most dressed in sweats, their hair pulled
into haphazard ponytails. They listened raptly as Herbenick explained the
vastly different language young men and young women use when describing “good
sex.” “Men are more likely to talk about pleasure, about orgasm,” Herbenick
said. “Women talk more about absence of pain. Thirty percent of female college
students say they experience pain during their sexual encounters as opposed to
five percent of men.”
The
rates of pain among women, she added, shoot up to 70 percent when anal sex is
included. Until recently, anal sex was a relatively rare practice among young
adults. But as it’s become disproportionately common in porn—and the big payoff
in R-rated fare such as Kingsman and The To Do List—it’s also on the rise in
real life. In 1992 only 16 percent of women aged eighteen to twenty-four said
they had tried anal sex. Today 20 percent of women eighteen to nineteen have,
and by ages twenty to twenty-four it’s up to 40 percent. A 2014 study of
heterosexuals sixteen to eighteen years old—and can we pause for a moment to
consider just how young that is?—found that it was mainly boys who pushed for
“fifth base,” approaching it less as a form of intimacy with a partner (who
they assumed would both need to be and could be coerced into it) than a
competition with other boys. Girls were expected to endure the act, which they
consistently reported as painful. Both sexes blamed that discomfort on the girls
themselves, for being “naïve or flawed,” unable to “relax.” Deborah Tolman has
bluntly called anal “the new oral.” “Since all girls are now presumed to have
oral sex in their repertoire,” she said, “anal sex is becoming the new ‘Will
she do it or not?’ behavior, the new ‘Prove you love me.’” And still, she
added, “girls’ sexual pleasure is not part of the equation.” According to
Herbenick, the rise of anal sex places new pressures on young women to perform
or else be labeled a prude. “It’s a metaphor, a symbol in one concrete behavior
for the lack of education about sex, the normalization of female pain, and the
way what had once been stigmatized has, over the course of a decade, become
expected. If you don’t want to do it you’re suddenly not good enough, you’re
frigid, you’re missing out, you’re not exploring your sexuality, you’re not
adventurous.”
―
Peggy Orenstein, Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
“Some
boys feel they are like girls,
They
are gentle, and like their hair in curls.”
―
Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“Nick
spreads cream cheese on my bagel for me because it’s hard to do with one hand.
You need to hold the bagel and everything.
“You
are the nicest boyfriend ever,” I tell him and kiss his cheek.
“Gag,”
Devyn says.
“You’re
just jealous,” Nick teases him and points his plastic knife at Devyn. “Which is
ridiculous because you are the star of the school now that the wheelchair is
totally gone. Everyone is talking about you.”
“Star
of the school?” Devyn asks. He takes a swig of Gatorade.
“All
the girls.” Nick gestures to the girls giggling behind them. “They like
miracles. It’s sexy. Remember how much play Jay Dahlberg got when he came back
from being abducted?” He does not add by pixies because he does not have to.
“Really?”
Devyn does this cheesy and really fake eyebrow wiggle thing so he looks like
some sleezy porn dog.”
―
Carrie Jones, Captivate
“I'll
be fine. It's just hard to love somebody who doesn't love you back,"
Fallon answered.”
―
Marcia Lynn McClure, Divine Deception
“He
likes girls on bikes, I like boys with guitars.”
―
Beth Garrod, Super Awkward
“There
is only one creature who is always right is a WOMAN...!!!”
―
M.Rehan Behleem
“There's
a way of listening in the dark that's so intense for girls. You can feel the
insides of your ears.”
―
Elisabeth de Mariaffi, The Devil You Know
“Be
wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in
righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.”
―
J.C. Ryle, Thoughts for Young Men
“I
came at no price; I am at no price.”
―
Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
“But
some boys like boys more -
And
some girls make other girls hearts soar!”
―
Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“Some
girls feel they are like boys,
They
play rough, they like a lot of noise.”
―
Christina Engela, Other Kids Are Kids Almost Just Like You
“Imagine,
if you will:
Meradinis!
The
stuff myths are made of! The Turtle Island of the stars – home planet to the
fearsome and once legendary Corsairs. The very name of this world immediately
grabbed the imaginations of young boys and girls, and universally mesmerize
dreamers and romantics alike. The truth though was less romantic – and as
reality so often demonstrates in real life - instead rather ugly and brutal.
The Corsairs were not corn-ball comics that went about with parrots on their
shoulders, saying “Arr!” to everything they encountered. They were anything
but. Behind the Corsairs and their culture lay a history fraught with a
struggle to survive, a vengefulness and a cruelty – and a drive to survive by
preying upon others that struck fear into the hearts of neighboring fringe
worlds.”
―
Christina Engela, Dead Beckoning
“Beauty
always made a target of its possessor. Every other human quality was hidden
easily enough --- intelligence, talent, selfishness, even madness --- but
beauty could not be concealed.
"Do
you ever wish you didn't look the way you did?" Anita asked.
"All
the time," Misery said. "I hate the way I look."
[...]
"No,
I didn't mean like that. I just meant---"
"Having
to be afraid," Eliza said.
"Yeah."
No
need to say more. No need to describe all the things you had to do to keep the
eyes away. No need to discuss how hard it was to get the attention of the
person you wanted attention from without being seen as desperate for everyone's
attention. No need to catalog all the walls you had to put up; not just the
walls that protected you from physical danger --- though there were plenty of
those, too --- but the walls you had to build around your heart. They said no
man was an island, and Anita figured that was probably true. But women were;
they had to be. And even if someone bothered to sail over ad disembark, he'd
soon discover that there was always a castle at the center of the island,
surrounded by a deep moat, with a rickety drawbridge and archers manning the
battlements and a big pot of oil poised above the gate, ready to boil alive
anyone who dared to cross the threshold.”
―
Tommy Wallach, We All Looked Up
“Girlfriend
is injurious to health...!!!”
―
M.Rehan Behleem
“When
someone shows you how little you mean to them and you keep coming back for
more, before you know it you start to mean less to yourself. You are made up of
compartments! You are one whole person! What gets said to you gets said to all
of you, ditto, what gets done. Being treated like shit is not an amusing game
or a transgressive intellectual experiment. It’s something you accept, condone,
and learn to believe you deserve. This is so simple. But I tried so hard to
make it complicated.”
―
Lena Dunham, Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's
"Learned"
“Girls
are obsessed with beauty. They make this world beautiful, by being beautiful.”
―
Toffee, Finding Juliet
