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“As a young girl, there were the obvious messages about what girls could and couldn't achieve. And to compound the limitations I felt being leveled upon me, I realized at the age of nine, that I was gay.”

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Author:Chely Wright

“I was one of five very clever kids, the other kids were cleverer than I was and still are and are very achieving. The girls were always first at everything and I was always 101st!”

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Author:Anthony Minghella

“Some girls are apparently born with dates; some through much personal activity, achieve them; but others seem by necessity to have dates thrust upon them.”

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Book:A White Bird Flying

Source: A White Bird Flying

“The best way to stop girls achieving anything is to force them to achieve everything.”

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Book:Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

Source: Unspeakable Things: Sex, Lies and Revolution

“To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world.”

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Author:America Ferrera

“Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyones responsibility.”

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Author:Ban Ki-moon

“A career high was when I did a cover for W Magazines July issue with Steven Meisel. So few girls shoot with Meisel in their career, and a lot of people had told me I would never achieve that, so it was a dream come true.”

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Author:Joan Smalls

“Girls have long been evaluated on the basis of appearance and caught in myriad double binds: achieve, but not too much, be polite,but be yourself, be feminine and adult; be aware of our cultural heritage, but don't comment on the sexism. . . . Girls are trained to be less than who they really are. They are trained to be what the culture wants of its young women, not what they themselves want to become.”

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Author:Mary Pipher