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“I overheard Nona talking about my little buds and how she remembered back when she was developing into a woman, and that was enough for me.”

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Book:Ink

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“So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.”

Girls Masculinity Moneymaking

Book:Collected Stories

Source: Collected Stories

“We rode through the suburbs, the ticking of our gears the only sound. I'd rarely been out this late, and never without my parents. Everything lay in a wrap of shadows. I felt an ownership of the night, and perhaps a whole world that didn't exist in daytime. We cut down a path tapering through the woods. The forest was alive with movement...”

Night Boys Girls Coming Of Age Adolescence Puberty

Book:The Saturday Night Ghost Club

Source: The Saturday Night Ghost Club

“Why," I say, "must women suffer so?" "This has always been our fate," she says. "Simply to endure," she says, "Is to triumph.”

Women Tragedy Girls Sold

Author:Patricia McCormickmick

“I know I'm not supposed to care about gender, or even acknowledge it as anything more than a social construct, but I really would prefer a girl.”

Girl Gender Motherhood Girls Social Construct

Book:Best Offer Wins

Source: Best Offer Wins

“I don’t understand models. They starve… for food.”

Business Fashion Food Models Irony Girls Aphorism Starve Thin

Book:Yet Another New Land

Source: Yet Another New Land

“Stay still! Do not provoke me,' I snapped, outrage and frustration choking me. 'Why is it so irrationally difficult for men to simply leave women alone?!”

Real Humor Girls

Book:A Crane Among Wolves

Source: A Crane Among Wolves

“My good, beloved wife, née Amy Lou Little, came to me from the girl pool. And there's an enchanting thought for lonely men--a pool of girls, teeming, warm, and deep.”

Women Girls Sexism Misogyny Spouses Wives

Book:While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

Source: While Mortals Sleep: Unpublished Short Fiction

“And Posho was saying the kind of thing he thought he was supposed to say too. Loads of them say that stuff about girls, the ones that are most threatened by girls do. Some of the boys and men think it makes them more superior to say that stuff. They hate to think something outside them can see them and maybe judge them. It's not just men or boys, a lot of people are threatened by knowing that people who they think aren't anything like them exist.”

Men Boys Girls Misogyny Difference Disrespect Harassment Threats Sexual Harassment

Book:Gliff

Source: Gliff

“She knew that neither she nor Eriko were young, per se— but when women were together, weren’t they always girls, whatever their age?”

Women Girls Chick Lit Gal Pals

Book:Hooked

Source: Hooked

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