“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.” AgeYoungGirlFeltAchieveGayMessagesObviousI RealizedNineLimitationCompounds Author:Chely Wright
“Up until I came here this week, and I met so many women and young girls who feel, to use their word - and I'm a bit embarrassed, but it's a good word - empowered, by watching. I realized this isn't a burden, this is an honor.” FeelsUseYoungGirlBitsWeekHonorMetsBurdenI RealizedEmbarrassedEmpoweredGood Words Author:Lucy Lawless
“I realized that calling yourself a feminist or not calling yourself a feminist, just by being in a band of all girls, it's all you talk about.” GirlCallingBandFeministI Realized Author:Kathleen Hanna
“When I was in high school, I was always really envious of those girls who seemed to have everything: the perfect hair, perfect clothes, perfect boyfriend, perfect life. It wasn't until I was older that I realized that nobody's life is perfect, and that those girls probably had a lot of the same problems I did.” ProblemSchoolLife IsGirlPerfectHairClothesHigh SchoolI RealizedEnviousPerfect Life Author:Sarah Dessen
“The range of individuality in children is infinite, but every class of children seemed to have the same groups. And there was a chief girl and a chief boy - a girl that all the other girls of that age looked up to and imitated and a boy that all the boys looked up to and imitated. I realized that if I got them on my side and exclusively taught them for a couple of weeks, maybe for the first full term, then I wouldn't have any trouble. Teachers often make the mistake of thinking they're the boss of the class; they're not. The boss of the class is sitting down there somewhere.” IfsThinkingFirstsChildrenAgeGirlSidesTermMistakeClassBoysTeacherTroubleGroupsWeekTaughtCoupleSittingInfiniteIndividualityI RealizedChiefsRangeBossSitting DownOther Girl Author:Philip Pullman
“When I was a girl, I would make up songs for fun. Then I realized, after making them up, that I could remember how they went a week later - I remember that's when I thought: Maybe I'm gonna be a singer.” RememberSongGirlFunWeekSingersI Realized Author:Lady Saw