“Teen girls are figuring out what they want out of life and who they want to be. They are becoming more and more independent, and are starting to make decisions that will affect them now and into the future. Combine this new responsibility with all the stress and pressures in their lives and the result, unfortunately, can be substance abuse.” WantGirlDecisionResultsResponsibilityBecomingAbuseStressPressureIndependentStartingSubstanceBecoming MoreSubstance Abuse Author:Atoosa Rubenstein
“The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.” WayChildrenTodaySchoolGirlResultsBoysDirectOur ChildrenTreatedArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBoy And Girl Author:Basmah bint Saud
“During the last quarter of a century all the authority associated with the function of spiritual guidance ... has seeped down into the lowest publications. ... Between a poem by Valéry and an advertisement for a beauty cream promising a rich marriage to anyone who used it there was at no point a breach of continuity. So as a result of literature's spiritual usurpation a beauty cream advertisement possessed, in the eyes of little village girls, the authority that was formerly attached to the words of priests.” LittlesEyeLastsSpiritualUsedGirlLiteratureResultsRichCenturyAuthorityFunctionGuidancePriestsVillageQuartersPossessedCreamLowestNo PointContinuityPublicationAdvertisementsBreachUsurpationSpiritual GuidanceQuarter Of A Century Author:Simone Weil
“People were being so mean as a result of my ability - a gift, really. So I think that's what makes me fight harder to provide an option to aspiring kids or artists. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what I went through... to see a little girl or a little dancer experience such unnecessary rejection.” PeopleThinkingWantMeanLittlesKidsArtistGirlFightingAbilityResultsHarderRejectionDancerUnnecessary Author:Laurieann Gibson
“Very few women have become famous for being who they actually are, nuanced and imperfect. When honesty happens, it's usually couched in self-ridicule or self-help. Dunham doesn't apologize like that-she simply tells her story as if it might be interesting. The result is shocking and radical because it is utterly familiar. Not That Kind of Girl is hilarious, artful, and staggeringly intimate; I read it shivering with recognition.” IfsKindSelfHelpingStoriesMightHappensGirlInterestingResultsSelf HelpHonestyFamiliarRecognitionRadicalIntimateImperfectApologizingShockingRidiculeKind Of Girl Author:Miranda July
“The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.” LooksChildrenTwoGirlFatherResultsBoysWifeFortuneMy WifeLovelyMagnificentGood Fortune Author:Arthur Rubinstein
“People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.” PeoplePainJoySongGirlResultsSadnessYouthEmotionalCaliforniaSunshineHymnsCalifornia Girls Author:Brian Wilson