“I'm a simple village girl who has always obeyed the orders of my father and brothers. Since forever, I have learned to say yes to everything. Today I have decided to say no.” TodayOrderGirlFatherSimpleForeverBrotherDecidedVillageI Have LearnedFather And Brother Author:Nujood Ali
“In order to provide the German housewife, above all mothers of many children...with tangible relief from her burdens, the Fuhrer has commissioned me to bring into the Reich from the eastern territories some four to five hundred thousand select, healthy, and strong girls.” ChildrenMotherOrderGirlStrongFiveFourHealthyThousandHundredBurdenReliefTerritoryEasternSelectTangibleHousewifeStrong Girl Author:Fritz Sauckel
“I had left home (like all Jewish girls) in order to eat pork and take birth control pills. When I first shared an intimate evening with my husband, I was swept away by the passion (so dormant inside myself) of a long and tortured existence. The physical cravings I had tried so hard to deny, finally and ultimately sated ... But enough about the pork.” FirstsLongHardEnoughHomeOrderGirlPassionLeftExistenceBirthHusbandDenyEveningIntimateMy HusbandCravingPillsBirth ControlPorkDormantSwept AwaySatedBirth Control Pills Author:Roseanne Barr
“Once upon a time, growing up male gave little boys a sense of certainty about the natural order of things. We had short hair, wore pants, and played baseball. Girls had long hair, wore skirts, and, no matter how hard they tried, always threw a baseball just like a girl.” LittlesLongMatterHardOrderGirlNaturalBoysGrowing UpGrowingHairBaseballMalesCertaintyPantsLittle BoysSkirtsOnce Upon A TimeLong HairNatural OrderAbsolute CertaintyShort Hair Author:Kenneth R. Miller
“A guy walks into a bar, orders a drink, sees a girl that catches his eye. Asks her if she wants another, they fall for each other and end up lovers. They laugh, cry, hold on tight and make it work for a little while, then one night her taillights fade out into the dark. And a guy walks into a bar” IfsWantLittlesEndsEyeNightGuyOrderFallGirlAsksDarkWalksLaughingCryLoversDrinkBarsHis EyesFadesOne Night Author:Tyler Farr
“We must uncover our rituals for what they are: completely arbitrary things, tied to our bourgeois way of life; it isgood-and that is the real theater-totranscend them in the manner of play, bymeans of games and irony; it is good to be dirty and bearded, to have long hair,to look like a girl when one is a boy (and vice versa); one must put "inplay," show up, transform and reversethe systems which quietly order us about.” WayLooksLongRealPlayShowsOrderGirlGamesBoysHairTheaterVicesDirtyIronyRitualTiedArbitraryVice VersaBourgeoisLong Hair Author:Michel Foucault
“I never felt pretty. I don't feel pretty now. I'm not a pretty person. I don't like pretty. So I don't feel badly. And I think it worked out well, because I found that all the girls I know who got by on their looks, as time went on and they faded, they were nothing. And they were very disappointed. When you're somebody like myself, in order to get around and be attractive, you have to develop something, you have to learn something, you have to do something. So you become a bit more interesting.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsWellsLooksPersonsOrderGirlFoundFeltBitsInterestingAttractiveDisappointedFaded Author:Iris Apfel
“CEOs of top companies could probably use a dose of not-asking-for-raise behavior and less self-entitlement, rather than us trying to change girls in order to fit into the common mold of what we think a CEO looks like.” ThinkingTryingLooksSelfUseOrderGirlCommonCompanyFitBehaviorAskingRaisesCeoMoldEntitlementDoseTrying To Change Author:Adora Svitak
“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.” YearsChildrenDesireOrderGirlFatherSocialParentAttitudeConditionsProtectTenEssentialsBuiltProtectionTemptationAdjustmentSocial OrderCounterparts Book:Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world
“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.” MenHas BeensTwoUsedOrderGirlLiteratureSensibleMansfield Park Book:Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1 Source: Jane Austen: 8 Books in 1