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“It's the sting of knowing that exactly as the world starts expanding for most boys, it begins to shrink for [girls].”

Book:Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger

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“No one has to tell her that her body makes her irrelevant to that entire conversation. Grace has never questioned her body's place in the world. She's always believed the laws of movies and TV shows: Chubby girls are sidekicks, not romantic leads; sometimes they get to be funny, but more often they're the butt of jokes; if they're powerful, they'e evil- they're Ursula the sea witch from The Little Mermaid: they are not heroines and they are certainly not sexy. These are the rules. This is the script.”

Love Growing Up Sad Girls Body Image Outrage Exclusion

Book:The Nowhere Girls

Source: The Nowhere Girls

“Taste *** Girls Before marriage are sweet After marriage are bitter In both situations If they are angry They are sour Unfortunately, They are tasteless After divorce.”

Girls

Author:Ehsan Sehgal

“Too often girls cover up their highlights instead of their shadows. And too often the right boys are too late to notice.”

Life Poetry Poems Makeup Girls Giovanniedesadeleer Giovannie De Sadeleer Selfcare

Author:Giovannie de Sadeleer

“Some girls see money, some girls see power, some girls see art, and some girls see potential, but at the end of the day, they are all seeking security.”

Motivation Security Girls Shallow

Author:Robert Black

“We used to say, we’re no beauties, because it was impossible to tell the truth. In bed, we were beauties. We were goddesses. We were the little girls we’d never been: loved, saucy, delighted, and delightful.”

Love Truth Beauty Girls Delightful Goddesses

Book:White Houses

Source: White Houses

“This, the “Vagina Effect”, is one of the saddest byproducts of pornography: to attract the attention of jaded males, female performers now feel they have to flash their vaginas – not too obviously, lest more orthodox fans be alienated, but 'accidentally' so as to sidestep disquieting accusations of vulgarity.”

Sex Women Feminism Girls Pornography Porn Vagina Vagina Effect

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Referred to euphemistically to children as 'privates', the vagina is no longer permitted to be private. Instead, it is photographed independently of the face, stripped of identity, of emotional and historical and economic context, and in the service of men: public.”

Women Feminism Photography Privacy Girls Womanhood Pornography Girlhood Vagina

Author:Antonella Gambotto-Burke

“Girls never heard what is said once – it always has to be repeated.”

Romance Girls

Book:Beauty Is A Burden

Source: Beauty Is A Burden

“Girls would never hear what is said once – it always has to be repeated.”

Romance Girls

Book:Beauty Is A Burden

Source: Beauty Is A Burden

“She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all. (This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest)”

Woods Fancy Girls Cats Wandering Possum

Book:The Cats of Tanglewood Forest

Source: The Cats of Tanglewood Forest

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