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“But [social media] is also the greatest enabler of relational aggression since the invention of language, and the evidence available today suggests that girls' mental health has suffered as a result.”

Book:The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure

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“Starting from middle childhood, however, boys and girls begin to take part in different social worlds with specific sets of challenges; moreover, sex differences in muscle mass and strength, bone density, and adiposity become more pronounced, giving boys a definite advantage in dealing with physical danger.”

Mind Boys Evolution Girls Evolutionary Psychology Puberty Evolutionary Psychopathology Psychopathy Sex Differences

Book:Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

Source: Evolutionary Psychopathology: A Unified Approach

“I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing.”

Girls Vonnegut

Book:Cat’s Cradle

Source: Cat’s Cradle

“The land of equal opportunity: Get to work ladies!”

Opportunity Women Work Land Equal Female Girls Working Get Ladies

Author:Steven Magee

“You know I always say that a healthy appetite for books leads to a girl with more than looks.”

Girls Reading Books Knowledge Is Power Looks Fade

Book:Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words

Source: Interrupted: A Life Beyond Words

“It's so easy, to split girls into sexy or nerdy, smart or pretty. One or the other. Us versus them. 'There are two kinds of women, those who do xyz, or those who do abc.' But that's not true. There are billions of types of women, infinite possible combinations, and people change over time. Why do we want to regulate ourselves into a tidy little box? Limit ourselves?”

Women Girls

Book:Kissing Galileo

Source: Kissing Galileo

“I was supposed to have an edge. But sharp-edged girls had feelings, too.”

Feelings Girls Sharp Sharp Edges

Book:The Inheritance Games

Source: The Inheritance Games

“People love to ogle pretty girls, but they love to hate them even more. There's no one the masses are more obsessed with railing at than the women who dare to stray from the docile ideal of wives and mothers.”

Women Girls Patriarchy

Book:Iron Widow

Source: Iron Widow

“You shouldn’t learn to want girls to be safe when you get a sister. You should just want it. Because everyone deserves to be safe.”

Safe Safety Girls Sexual Assault

Book:This May End Badly

Source: This May End Badly

“Afterward, as we walk down Congress Street toward my apartment, the man says, “Men like that know how to pick the right ones, you know? They’re real predators. They know how to scan a herd and select the weak.” As he says that, I see a scene of me, fifteen and wild-eyed, separated from my parents, running in a panicked gait across a tundra landscape while Strane sprints after me, gathering me in his arms without breaking stride. An ocean roars in my ears, blocking out the rest of the man’s thoughts on the film, and I think, Maybe that’s all it was. I was an obvious target. He chose me not because I was special, but because he was hungry and I was easy.”

Film Easy Special Girls Predation

Book:My Dark Vanessa

Source: My Dark Vanessa

“I’d say your worth isn’t decided by whether or not you can get a girl-starved demon from Winfield to lay his nasty fish lips you”

Boys Lips Self Worth Kiss Girls Worth Rivalry

Book:This May End Badly

Source: This May End Badly

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