“I remember attending Toronto Comicon shortly after the release of Captain Marvel and seeing a five-year-old girl who'd come in a handmade Captain Marvel outfit with her hair moussed up - and I totally got the need for this book, for this hero. Someone who looks like her, and acts like her. So, in a way, Captain Marvel helped pave the road to the expanded role of female leads.” WayNeedsYearsLooksBookRememberGirlRolesFiveSeeingHairHeroFemaleReleaseComicFive YearsCaptainsComic BookAttendingLike HerTorontoFive Year OldsHandmade Author:Axel Alonso
“our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.” WayShowsRunningCultureGirlBoysCryGradesLike HerHumiliatingEighth Grade Book:What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned Source: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned
“The system - the American one, at least - is a vast and noble experiment. It has been polestar and exemplar for other nations. But from kindergarten until she graduates from college the girl is treated in it exactly like her brothers. She studies the same subjects, becomes proficient at the same sports. Oh, it is a magnificent lore she learns, education for the mind beyond anything Jane Austen or Saint Theresa or even Mrs. Pankhurst ever dreamed. It is truly Utopian. But Utopia was never meant to exist on this disheveled planet.” MindHas BeensGirlNationsSportsEducationStudySubjectsCollegePlanetsBrotherSaintNobleExperimentsTreatedGraduatesMagnificentJaneUtopiaUtopianLike HerKindergartenAustenTheresa Book:The province of the heart Source: The province of the heart
“Lana Del Rey seems to be bothering everybody because she allegedly remade herself from a folk singing, girl-next-door type into an electro-urban kitty cat on the prowl (of course I like her), and they feel she is inauthentic.” FeelsSeemsGirlCoursesNextDoorsTypeSingingCatFolksBotherUrbanLike HerKittiesKitty Cat Author:Liz Phair
“Of course, I loved the Spice Girls. I loved Geri and Baby, but who liked Posh Spice? They said I looked like her and I said, 'That’s not cool, that’s really mean.’” MeanSaidGirlCoursesBabyThey SaidReally MeanSpicesLike HerPoshSpice Girls Author:Cara Delevingne
“As for my ideal type, I like girls who don't have powerful presence, and not self-centered. I'd like her to have a light skin, and a calm personality.” SelfLightGirlPowerfulTypePersonalityIdealsSkinsCalmSelf CenteredLike Her Author:Yesung