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“IT helps to think of the whole development thing as a process; you go in looking like a girl, and you'll come out at the other end looking like a woman. The stuff in the middle is just what everyone goes through, it;s almost never much fun.”

Book:Boys Will Put You on a Pedestal (So They Can Look Up Your Skirt): A Dad's Advice for Daughters

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“This one had come to me, though, picked me out. I thought she was trouble from the start. I don't read minds and I can't see the future, but call it instinct or experience, something was prickling my spine. You could call it something else, if you wanted: adolescence, hormones, lust. Being seventeen. That doesn't go away, however long you practice. "Hullo," I said politely, warily. She was long and slim and very neatly put together, dark hair tumbling over denim, old worn black jacket and jeans that somehow hadn't faded into grey. They probably didn't dare. Right from the start I saw a focus in her, a determination that must go all the way through, like the writing in a stick of Brighton rock. In another world, another lifetime, I thought she'd have raven-feathers in her hair, a bear's tooth on a thong about her. She'd be the village shaman, talking to spirits, and even the headman would be afraid of her, a little... Seventeen, I told you. She was devastating to me, she was sitting at my table, and I couldn't afford her. Not for a minute. If I'd stood up, if I'd left, if I'd run away... Nah. She would just have come after me. Faster, fitter, and on longer legs. What chance did I ever have?”

Girls Seventeen

Book:Desdaemona

Source: Desdaemona

“there wasn't use trying to talk with a girl just because of something she'd said to me in a dream”

Girls

Book:God's Own Country

Source: God's Own Country

“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.”

Funny Girls Embarassing

Book:Ink

Source: Ink

“I feel I am the perfect lover, because I love equally all beautiful girls.”

Perfect Girls Lover Feel Equally

Author:M.F. Moonzajer

“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

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