“I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.” PeopleKnowsWantWritingTwoDifferentUsedGirlKnow HowGrewGrew UpLettersSupportiveBeing Different Author:Noureen DeWulf
“I don't really have a type. I just kind of hang out with girls that I think have a good personality, know how to have fun, active and definitely have something going on in their life so they are busy so I'm not stuck all the time hanging out.” ThinkingKnowsKindGirlFunKnow HowTypePersonalityBusyActiveStuckHaving FunHanging OutGood PersonGood Personality Author:Ryan Sheckler
“All people need to know how AIDS is transmitted, and every country has an obligation to educate its citizens. This is why every country must also improve literacy, especially for women and girls, so that they can make wise choices that will keep them healthy and safe.” PeopleKnowsNeedsCountryChoicesGirlKnow HowWiseCitizensHealthySafeAidsObligationEducateLiteracyWise Choices Author:Laura Bush
“It's useful to know how much society's holding you back. My mother would talk about how she was told by the head of her art school that she was the best painter, but that she wouldn't get the biggest prize because she would waste her talent by having children. I think we have to get honest with girls about how they can expect the world to block them, and we have to prepare girls, and ourselves, to break through those blocks.” ThinkingKnowsWorldChildrenArtSchoolMotherGirlBreakKnow HowHonestTalentWasteBlockPainterPrizeBreak ThroughArt SchoolHaving Children Author:Erica Jong
“I got to playing villains-I don't know how. I think it's like anything else, in the movies in particular that if you establish yourself as something and you're lucky enough to keep getting hired. You know, there are guys who play the guy who gets the girl, guys who are the best friend of that guy, there's the funny guy, the villain.” IfsThinkingKnowsEnoughPlayGuyGirlKnow HowParticularLuckyVillainThat GuyFunny Guy Author:Christopher Walken
“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
“A smart girl is one who knows how to play tennis, golf, piano -- and dumb.” KnowsPlayGirlKnow HowSmartGolfDumbPianoTennisSmart Girl Author:Marilyn Monroe
“I think I should know how to educate a boy, but not a girl; I should be in danger of making her too learned.” ThinkingKnowsShouldGirlEducationBoysKnow HowDangerEducate Author:Reinhold Niebuhr
“Any high school boy or girl knows how to calculate the force with which a stone he or she throws will hit someone in the face, but nothing in those equations they use will tell them whether or not to throw it...To solve the problem of values we must know what is valuable. Consciousness is the most valuable commodity...To bring values into science, we need to connect science with what is valuable consciousness.” KnowsNeedsUseProblemSchoolFacesValuesGirlForceConsciousnessBoysKnow HowHigh SchoolStonesValuableSolveCommodityEquations Author:Ravi Gomatam
“I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.” KnowsMeanRealGirlWaitingSoundPowerfulKnow HowPleaseResponsePermissionRequestSaying YesGood GirlConciseReal WomenSaying Please Author:Amy Poehler
“For some people, home is family and their mom's house or their girl or whatever, and I have those experiences as well, but the biggest thing for me is Chicago. I don't know how to explain it.” PeopleKnowsWellsHomeGirlHouseKnow HowMomChicago Author:Patrick Stump
“I remember going to him (Richard England) and saying, “You know, how come you don't give me any parts?” I did Raymonda and a couple of other nice parts, but mostly he was giving a lot of parts to the other girls. He said, “Those girls are short and they're not going to get into ABT, but I think you are going to get into ABT. I think you're going dance later, so I'm not worried about you.”” ThinkingKnowsGivingSaidRememberGirlKnow HowNiceCoupleGive MeEnglandWorriedOther Girl Author:Susan Jaffe
“I'm a pretty aggressive girl in general. So if there's a boy that I like, you're going to know how I feel. I just put it out there.” IfsKnowsFeelsGirlBoysKnow HowLike YouAggressiveI Like You Author:Betty Who
“I don't know so much about my boys, but my girls, they all work with me. They know how to work. My daughters know it's not done till it's done, even if it's three or four in the morning. I don't want them to grow up with entitlement.” IfsKnowsWantDoneGirlThreeGrowsBoysMorningKnow HowGrowing UpFourDaughterMy DaughterEntitlementMy GirlMy Boys Author:Marie Osmond
“But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.” KnowsGuyGirlStuffPerfectKnow HowRight NowGladRejectsAnother GirlPerfect Guy Author:Claire LaZebnik
“It's really fun to say no sometimes. I just don't want to discount how fun it is to say no and exercise your right to say no, and - as a girl - it's important to know how to say no... and that no means no!” KnowsWantMeanImportantSometimesGirlFunKnow HowExerciseDiscounts Author:Zooey Deschanel
“Children are the first thing I see in the morning and the last thing I see at night. It hurts me to be away from them for a few hours. It really does. I love them and they're girls, so they know how to push my buttons. But I've learned a lot and I have to thank my wife for that.” KnowsFirstsChildrenDoeLastsNightGirlHoursHurtMorningKnow HowWifeMy WifeI've LearnedButtonsIt HurtsHurt Me Author:Sylvester Stallone
“I was not yet three years old when my mother determined to send one of my elder sisters to learn to read at a school for girls we call the Amigas. Affection, and mischief, caused me to follow her, and when I observed how she was being taught her lessons I was so inflamed with the desire to know how to read, that deceiving - for so I knew it to be - the mistress, I told her that my mother had meant for me to have lessons too. ... I learned so quickly that before my mother knew of it I could already read.” KnowsYearsSchoolMotherDesireGirlThreeKnow HowTaughtLessonsAffectionDeterminedThree YearsDeceivingEldersMistressMischiefThree Year Olds Author:Juana Inés de la Cruz
“Slavish obedience to the clerics, who know how to squeeze every last drop of advantage out of religion, is killing our girls. We must speak-blaspheme, if necessary; be accused of being apostates, if that is what is required. Muslims are taught that Islam put an end to the Arabian practice of burying alive newborn baby girls because they were considered worthless and a burden, but as long as we stay quiet in the face of the abomination of child marriage, we are effectively burying our girls alive today.” IfsKnowsChildrenLongEndsTodayLastsFacesGirlSpeakPracticeKnow HowAliveTaughtBabyQuietAdvantageIslamKillingBurdenObedienceWorthlessAccusedLive For TodayNewbornBaby GirlAbominationBuryingArabianNewborn Baby Author:Mona Eltahawy
“We know what to do and we know how to do it, these investments save lives, empower women and girls, strengthen health systems and have a profound and lasting impact on development.” KnowsGirlKnow HowHealthDevelopmentImpactProfoundInvestmentEmpoweringLastingEmpowering WomenSave A LifeHealth SystemLasting Impact Author:Babatunde Osotimehin
“Young women don't want to be called feminists because it's not sexy and ah they think that their mothers and grandmothers have achieved everything they want. They don't know how poor women live, how women in rural places live, how 80 percent of women in the world are the poorest of the poor, how still there are 27 million slaves, and most of them women and girls.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantStillsYoungMotherGirlPoorMillionsKnow HowPercentSlaveFeministSexyGrandmotherYoung WomenPoorestMother And Grandmother Author:Isabel Allende
“Every character sees the world through a framework of education and experience that they're proud experts about. To write a character, find out what they know best, and THEN you'll know how they'll describe a "hot day." Or a "pretty girl."” KnowsWorldWritingCharacterGirlKnow HowProudHotExpertsFrameworkPretty GirlHot Days Author:Chuck Palahniuk
“I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantIdeasYoungGirlKnow HowCollegeStartingReachingStarting OutPurposeful Life Author:Oprah Winfrey