“People wanna say that they're part Native American or mixed, or anything other than black. We're raised to believe that there's something better about not being fully black, something eccentric about it. I'm saying I used to tell girls that I was mixed, which is a bold-faced lie!” PeopleBelieveUsedLyingGirlBlackRaisedNativeNative AmericanSomething BetterEccentricTell A Girl Author:Chance the Rapper
“I was a single mom that raised two bright, beautiful, and compassionate girls.” TwoBeautifulGirlMomRaisedCompassionateSingle Mom Author:Connie Stevens
“Personally I have always liked boys, but if it's a girl, marvelous, because I was raised among women.” IfsGirlBoysRaisedMarvelous Author:Paz Vega
“I ask you all so earnestly to open girl's schools in every village and try to uplift them. If the Conditions of women are raised, then their children will, by their noble actions, glorify the name of the Country.” IfsTryingChildrenCountryActionSchoolGirlAsksNamesConditionsRaisedNobleUpliftingVillageGlorify Author:Swami Vivekananda
“I used to play Barbies with my Mormon neighbor friend; it was always, "Oh, we're going to go on a date. Ken's taking us out, and we're going with Ken on a date." And I was like, "We're parachuting behind enemy lines to save the Jews." That's how I played Barbies. I was told when I was a girl that every Jewish woman has to have five children to replace three fifths of our people that were killed. That's how I was raised.” PeopleChildrenPlayUsedGirlThreeLinesBehindsEnemyFiveGoes OnRaisedJewNeighborBarbieNeighbors Friends Author:Roseanne Barr
“I was raised the Chinese way: I was taught to desire nothing, to swallow other people's misery, to eat my own bitterness. And even though I taught my daughter the opposite, still she came out the same way! Maybe it is because she was born to me and she was born a girl. And I was born to my mother and I was born a girl. All of us are like stairs, one step after another, going up and down, but all going the same way.” PeopleWayStillsMotherDesireGirlBornMy OwnStepsGenerationsTaughtDaughterOppositesMiseryRaisedChineseMy DaughterBitternessUp And DownStairs Author:Amy Tan
“All over the world, girls are raised to be make themselves likeable, to twist themselves into shapes that suit other people. Please do not twist yourself into shapes to please. Don't do it. If someone likes that version of you, that version of you that is false and holds back, then they actually just like that twisted shape, and not you. And the world is such a gloriously multifaceted, diverse place that there are people in the world who will like you, the real you, as you are.” PeopleIfsWorldRealGirlLike YouPleaseShapesRaisedLikesVersionsSuitsDiverseTwistsTwistedReal YouLikeable Author:Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie