“When I was about 13 I realised girls weren't going to kiss me because I was a gigantic, weird looking creature from the depths. I was like 6 ft. aged 11.” GirlCreaturesKissingDepthRealisedKiss Me Author:Chris O'Dowd
“Give an earnest-hearted, devoted girl any true work that will make her active in the dawn, and weary at night, with the consciousness that her fellow-creatures have indeed been the better for her day, and the powerless sorrow of her enthusiasm will transform itself into a majesty of radiant and beneficent peace.” GivingNightGirlConsciousnessSorrowCreaturesFellowsActiveEnthusiasmDawnDevotedWearyPowerlessEarnestMajestyHeartedRadiant Author:John Ruskin
“A number of frail girls... prisoners in the top room of a circular tower, embroidering a kind of tapestry which spilled out the slit windows and into a void, seeking hopelessly to fill the void: for all the other buildings and creatures, all the waves, ships and forests of the earth were contained in this tapestry, and the tapestry was the world.” WorldKindEarthGirlRoomsNumbersBuildingCreaturesWindowWaveSeekingForestsShipsPrisonerVoidTowersFrailTapestrySlitsFill The Void Book:The Crying of Lot 49 Source: The Crying of Lot 49
“Look at your [English] ladies of quality are they not forever parting with their husbands - forfeiting their reputations - and is their life aught but dissipation? In common genteel life, indeed, you may now and then meet with very fine girls - who have politeness, sense and conversation - but these are few - and then look at your trademen's daughters - what are they? poor creatures indeed! all pertness, imitation and folly.” LooksMayGirlPoorCommonQualityForeverFineHusbandConversationCreaturesDaughterReputationFollyNow And ThenImitationPartingPolitenessDissipation Author:Fanny Burney
“At night the cries of cats making love or fighting, their caterwauling in the dark, told us that the world was pure emotion, flung back and forth among its creatures, the agony of the one-eyed Siamese no different from that of the Lisbon girls, and even the trees plunged in feeling.” WorldDifferentFeelingsNightGirlFightingDarkEmotionTreeCryPureCreaturesCatAgonyMaking LoveBack And Forth Book:The Virgin Suicides: A Novel Source: The Virgin Suicides: A Novel