Best body & girl Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I just really like fun, cool, interesting, quirky girls. And sometimes you find that in 6'2 model bodies and sometimes they're short and brunette. All shapes and sizes - it's really about the personality. That sounds cliche, but it's so freaking true!”

Sometimes Body Girl Fun Sound Interesting Personality Shapes Models Size Cliche Quirky Brunette

Author:Dylan O'Brien

“Young girls are like helpless children in the hands of amorous men, whatever is said to them is true and whatever manipulation on their bodies seems like love to them, sooner or later, they come back to their senses, but the scars are not dead inasmuch as her spoiler lives.”

Men Children Said Body Hands Seems Young Girl Senses Manipulation Scar Sooner Or Later Helpless Like Love Amorous Spoilers

Author:Michael Bassey

“We need to encourage designers and agencies to be responsible. We need to make sure everyone is sensitive to the issues. But to calculate the girls' body mass - I personally think it is demeaning.”

Thinking Needs Body Girl Issues Mass Responsible Sensitive Agency Designer Being Responsible Demeaning

Author:Diane von Furstenberg

“Shame is something you'll find a lot of - particularly Catholic - girls feel about their bodies, about their sexuality, about their diet, about anything you like. Shame is the way you keep them down. That's the way to crush a girl.”

Way Feels Body Girl Shame Catholic Sexuality Diets Crush

Author:Rachel Cusk

“Tell me some true things about fighting.''Tell me you love me.''I love you,' the girl said. 'You can publish it in the Gazzettino if you like. I love your hard, flat body and your strange eyes that frighten me when they become wicked. I love your hand and all your other wounded places.”

Ifs Said Hard Body Hands Eye Girl Fighting Love You Strange Wicked Flats Wounded Publish True Things Tell Me You Love Me

Book:Across the River and Into the Trees

Source: Across the River and Into the Trees

“Little girls do not wake up in the morning and say "I dream of being a prostitute." It is a terrible, terrible life. Body invasion is more traumatic than even getting beaten up. In certain circumstances, obviously, it may be a way to survive.”

Way May Littles Dream Body Certain Girl Morning Circumstances Terrible Wake Up Beaten Invasion

Author:Gloria Steinem

“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.”

People Long Said Enough Body School Girl Cities Our Lives Lows Died Lays Missions Maps Mail Burned They Said Medal Casualties Bombers

Author:Randall Jarrell

“For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.”

“I hold him but a fool that will endanger His body for a girl that loves him not.”

Body Girl Fool Folly

Book:The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)

Source: The Two Gentlemen of Verona in Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation)

“And we will NOT let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, or anybody ELSE, HAMMER into the minds of girls as YOUNG as SIX YEARS OLD that they should ALWAYS hate their bodies and ALWAYS be on a diet!”

Should Years Mind Body Young Hate Girl Six Diets Soup Navy Hammers Six Year Olds

Author:Jello Biafra

“Were we to still be circumcising the hood of the female clitoris, we would not have difficulty considering this a continuation of our tradition to keep girls sexually repressed. America's reflexive continuation of [male] circumcision-without-research reflects the continuation of our tradition to desensitize boys to feelings of pain, to prepare them to question the disposability of their bodies no more than they would question the disposability of their foreskins.”

Stills Feelings Body Pain America Girl Boys Research Female Tradition Difficulty Males Considering Hood Sexually Repressed Continuation Circumcision

Book:The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

Source: The Myth of Male Power: Why Men Are the Disposable Sex

“A Christian might drink only ginger ale at the tavern bar, but there he is already on the way to drinking beer and whiskey. The girl who attends a ball but never dances a step, will soon surrender her body to the lustful embrace of every casual male acquaintance as other dancers do.”

Way Body Might Christian Girl Steps Drink Balls Embrace Drinking Males Surrender Bars Beer Dancer Acquaintance Casual Whiskey Drinking Beer Ginger Ale Lustful Taverns

Book:The Ruin of a Christian

Source: The Ruin of a Christian

“I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.”

Self Body Girl Three Pages Conscious Shame Frustrated Self Conscious

Author:Susannah Constantine

“Essentially, if our secrets are secrets because we are told to be ashamed, then we must share them. There is no shame in being sad or struggling or trying to heal. We are all desperate, depraved and sacred. We are all terrible and brillIant. I can list all the things that can make a girl want to escape her own body (re: patriarchy). But I’d rather list all the things that make me want to stay in my body, and adorn it like a home, rub oils into my skin, tell it how sorry I am for trying to leave, for trying to hurt it into submission”

Ifs Want Trying I Can Home Body Girl Hurt Secret Struggle Share Terrible Skins Shame Sacred Sorry Oil Brilliant Lists Heal Desperate Ashamed Patriarchy Submission Depraved Being Sad

Author:Warsan Shire

“Height isn't something you can have and just let be, like nice teeth or naturally curly hair. People have this idea you have to put it to use, playing basketball, for example, or observing the weather up there. If you are a girl, they feel a particular need to point your height out to you, as if you might not have noticed.”

People Ifs Needs Feels Ideas Use Body Might Girl Nice Example Particular Hair Basketball Size Teeth Weather Height Observing Playing Basketball Curly Hair Nice Teeth

Author:Barbara Kingsolver

“I felt myself no longer a husk but a body with some of the body's sweet juices stirring again. I had my first dream in many months, confused but to this day imperishable, with a flute in it somewhere, and a wild goose, and a dancing girl.”

Firsts Dream Body Girl Felt Sweet Months Dancing Confused This Day Juice Geese Stirring Flutes Wild Geese

Book:Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

Source: Darkness visible: a memoir of madness

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