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Quotes About Girls

She smiled to herself at the sudden shyness that fell on the two girls as she walked away.
~ Nicola Griffith
Obedience seemed the safest plan. I hadn't learned yet. In this world it's the obedient girls who are most in danger.
~ Unknown
The poems introduce the girls to other kinds of people of color, other worlds. To adventure, and kindness, and cruelty. Cruelty that we usually think we face alone, but we don't. We discover that by sharing with each other we find strength to go on. The poems are the play's first hint of the global misogyny that we women face.
~ Ntozake Shange
A friend told me that teenage girls are always looking for someone to pin their dreams on. That doesn't make it any less weird though.
~ Orlando Bloom
These bachelor parties get a little out of hand sometimes. Eddie Watkins is making all the arrangements. If I know Eddie, he's probably lined up a whole bunch of chorus girls.
~ Paddy Chayefsky
Jane's World' has pushed the boundaries for mainstream comic strips: girls have kissed, punched each other, have been abducted by aliens, taken steamy showers together and turned into monkeys. Jane has been through a lot and I love her for it.
~ Unknown
Organized gangs were now deep into the sex trafficking business, snatching girls off city streets, not from other countries.
~ Unknown
I thought it was a really good story,' Cindy said. She was trying to make me feel better, I think. 'I liked the way it ended. When I was halfway through, I was thinking that maybe some handsome prince was going to show up and save the princess.' 'She didn't need a handsome prince,' I said. 'Those wild girls did just fine on their own.
~ Pat Murphy
Fourteen preteen girls, a tableful of werewolves—there were certain monstrous similarities.
~ Patricia Briggs
I'd heard there were some gay girls in senior year who were dating each other right out in the open. But not any boys. Its different for boys. I mean, everybody knows somebody gay - duh, it's not 1980 or something - but not at school. At school, it was a secret, and you were on your own.
~ Patrick Ness
Many of the stories centered around me hunting bandits and rescuing young girls. But none of them came terribly close to the truth. No story can move a thousand miles by word of mouth and keep its shape.
~ Patrick Rothfuss
Education also equips women to face the most dramatic climatic changes. A 2013 study found that educating girls "is the single most important social and economic factor associated with a reduction in vulnerability to natural disasters.
~ Paul Hawken
When dad is absent," she explained, "it basically provides young girls with a cue about what the future holds in terms of the mating system they are born into.
~ Unknown
On the surface, the Celibacy Club was one of the more contradictory groups at school. It was the kind of club where kids (mostly girls) would walk past the classroom a couple of times before they went inside for the meeting, as if they were embarrassed to join a club whose members proudly declared their intention to wait until marriage.
~ Unknown
Fine, I'll admit it, I've read all of the books in the trilogy, which have sold more copies than there are people in the world because a lot of girls have hoarded multiple copies of each book and hidden the backup copies under their beds or in their lockers or in hollow trees, in case there's a nuclear holocaust.
~ Paul Rudnick
She's so beautiful," I tell Emily. "She might have had a shot." "The world is full of beautiful girls.
~ Paula McLain
princess play feels like proof of our daughters' innocence, protection against the sexualization it may actually be courting. It reassures us that, despite the pressure to be precocious, little girls are still -- and ever will be -- little girls. And that knowledge restores our faith not only in wonder but, quite possibly, in goodness itself.
~ Peggy Orenstein
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Fully half the girls had experienced something along a spectrum of coercion to rape. Those stories were agonizing; equally upsetting, only two had previously told another adult what had happened.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.
~ Peggy Orenstein
Where have all the flowers gone?The girls have picked them every one.Oh, when will they ever learn?
~ Pete Seeger