“Fear of emotional contact with men out of fear of being a sexual suspect makes boys, ironically, even more powerless before girls. Homophobia is like telling the United States it will be a sissy nation if it doesn't get all its oil from OPEC.” IfsMenStatesGirlNationsUnitedBoysUnited StatesEmotionalOilContactSuspectsPowerlessHomophobiaSissyOpec Author:Warren Farrell
“You know how theres always the one girl in drama school who can cry at the drop of a hat? She has that emotional well she can tap into in a second? Im not that girl. It takes a lot to get me to that place.” KnowsWellsSchoolGirlKnow HowCryEmotionalDramaHatsThat Girl Author:Condola Rashad
“People who take books on sex to bed become frigid. You get self-conscious. You can't think a story. You can't think, "I shall do a story to improve mankind." Well, it's nonsense. All the great stories, all the really worthwhile plays, are emotional experiences. If you have to ask yourself whether or not you love a girl or you love a boy, forget it. You don't. A story is the same way. You either feel a story and need to write it, or you better not write it.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayNeedsFeelsWritingWellsBookSelfPlayStoriesGirlAsksSexForgetBoysMankindEmotionalBedConsciousNonsenseWorthwhileForget ItSelf ConsciousFrigid Author:Ray Bradbury
“People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.” PeoplePainJoySongGirlResultsSadnessYouthEmotionalCaliforniaSunshineHymnsCalifornia Girls Author:Brian Wilson
“The biographies of the great men see their excesses as signs of their greatness. But Jean Rhys, in her biography, is read as borderline; Anaïs Nin is borderline; Djuna is borderline; etc. etc. Borderline personality disorder being an overwhelmingly gendered diagnosis. I write in Heroines: “The charges of borderline personality disorder are the same charges against girls writing literature, I realize - too emotional, too impulsive, no boundaries."” MenWritingGirlLiteratureRealizingGreatnessEmotionalPersonalityBoundariesGreat MenEtcDisorderExcessBiographiesDiagnosisHeroinesImpulsiveNo BoundariesBorderlinePersonality Disorders Author:Kate Zambreno
“[The] majority of the girls working there had major emotional problems. And not cries-too-much emotional problems; more like stabs-her-boyfriend-with-a-steak-knife-then-falls-into-a-corner-and-starts-whispering-to-herself emotional problems.” ProblemFallGirlToo MuchCryEmotionalMajorsMajorityCornersKnivesWhisperingSteakEmotional Problems Author:Justin Halpern
“You're looking, moment by moment and scene by scene, how you can tell the most interesting story. So, we had this great short and we knew that we had a story about a boy and his dog. Because we had that pure emotional core, we could go on crazy tangents and always come back to Victor and Sparky. When I wrote in stuff like Weird Girl and the cat poop, Dutch Day and the windmill, it felt like it was part of Tim's universe.” MomentsStoriesGirlUniverseFeltStuffInterestingBoysCrazyDogEmotionalGoes OnScenePureCatCoreMost InterestingDutchPoopWindmillsInteresting StoriesGreat Short Author:John August
“It had a language. It's a very emotional language that only exists in India, that part of [inaudible] so we wanted to use that. I had two versions - one with my voice and one with the girl's voice. But he preferred the girl's voice and he preferred my voice with an [inaudible].” TwoUseWantedGirlLanguageVoiceEmotionalIndiaVersions Author:A. R. Rahman
“There's this whole sexy thing that happens to women when we walk the red carpet, and it's all okay! At home, I am so many other things! I am just a girl dreaming. I am emotional and goofy.” WholeHomeDreamHappensGirlWalksEmotionalRedOkaySexyCarpetRed CarpetGoofyJust A Girl Author:Zulay Henao
“Girls have girl/guy relationships because we are expected to be so emotional and sensitive and stuff, and sometimes you just don't feel like being that way.” WayFeelsSometimesGuyGirlStuffEmotionalExpectedSensitive Author:Natalie Portman
“What I like about Paper Girls in particular is that because we're approaching it more from a female perspective, we're able to consider the emotional states of these characters a little bit more, and think more of their interiority.” ThinkingLittlesStatesCharacterAbleGirlBitsEmotionalParticularPerspectivePaperLittle BitFemale Author:Cliff Chiang
“The strongest statement ever made about women's rights appears on page one of the Bible. God's first words about his daughters established an indestructible foundation for women's rights because God anchored those rights in himself. By creating his daughters along with his sons in his image and likeness, God elevated every human being to the highest possible rank. Which means any mistreatment - verbal, emotional, or physical - of any woman or girl amounts to defacement of God himself, for she bears his image.” MeanGirlEmotionalSonDaughter Author:Carolyn Custis James
“I think a huge part is how we're socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love - can't live without you, can't breathe without you, I'll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level of emotional intensity and dramatics equates with real love. We're also taught that if we date lots of people, then we're sluts, so at an early age we put all our eggs into one basket, so to speak, and concentrate on "the one".” PeopleThinkingBelieveRealAgeValuesCultureGirlSpeakTeachGrowing UpEmotionalBreatheReal LoveRomantic LoveTeenageTeenage Girl Author:Rachel Lloyd
“Selfishly, perhaps, Catti-brie had determined that the assassin was her own business. He had unnerved her, had stripped away years of training and discipline and reduced her to the quivering semblance of a frightened child. But she was a young woman now, no more a girl. She had to personally respond to that emotional humiliation, or the scars from it would haunt her to her grave, forever paralyzing her along her path to discover her true potential in life.” YearsChildrenYoungGirlForeverPathEmotionalDisciplineTrainingDeterminedGravesFrightenedScarYoung WomenHumiliationOwn BusinessAssassinsSemblanceTrue PotentialBrie Author:R. A. Salvatore