Quotes About Girlhood

Growing up, I wish I hadn't tried so hard to fit in. I'd tell myself to just embrace what you were born with because it's beautiful and you were made like that for a reason. It's tough being a girl. I think we need all of the support we can get.

Girls, to me, growing up were very, very petty and didn't want me to succeed and didn't want the best for me.

All that time, all that time, I thought I was missing Jude." And the loss pressed down on her chest and came up into her throat. "We was girls together," she said as though explaining something. "O Lord, Sula," she cried, "girl, girl, girlgirlgirl." It was a fine cry—loud and long—but it had no bottom and it had no top, just circles and circles of sorrow.

We was girls together

She was beautiful?not a word anyone usually used to describe an eleven-year-old girl. Cute was more common, or pretty. Beautiful dug deeper than a girl that age could normally stand up to. But Dee was beautiful.

My old friends, you must help me! Tell me what it is that a girl does in the way that a spider weaves, so that Solace will not grow up to be the wrong sort of girl." We like the wrong sorts of girls, they wrote. They are usually the ones worth writing about.

Sometimes I felt that growing up and being a girl was about learning to be afraid.

Be selfish, be unreasonable, and don't worry about it. We're girls, so we are allowed. Being a girl is a privilege, and we should take full advantage of that fact. We have the right and the duty to act as we please. But a boy who makes a girl cry is worthless and he brings shame into the romance and makes it untrue.

So the room was an attic; the bed narrow; and lying there reading, for she slept badly, she could not dispel a virginity preserved through childbirth which clung to her like a sheet. Lovely in girlhood, suddenly there came a moment...

See, at a certain point it becomes cool to be boy crazy. That happens in sixth grade, and it gives you so much social status, particularly in an all-girls school, if you can go up and talk to boys.

Her attraction to that solid type depended to some extent on a belief in herself as its opposite-a girl still cut out for unusual adventures and unusual personalities...Yes, it was time to put an end to her girlhood, but she couldn't yet put an end to this sense of herself...

If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?

Girl Scouts is a girl-serving organization, so our members are girls.

Selling cookies is usually a girl's first exposure to the world of business. She learns how to meet the public, talk about a product, sell the product, and is responsible for collecting money, giving change, and delivering the product. That's quite a business venture for a 7-year-old.

Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.

As I studied in a girls' school and a girls' college, I am comfortable in the space where other girls are involved. If you see 'Moggina Manasu,' which was my first release, there were four of us girls sharing screen space.

It was the season of sex, yes, but it was also, in all the vital ways, without sex itself—and isn't that one useful definition of a happy girlhood? I didn't know or appreciate this aspect of my luck until well into adulthood, when I began to find, in more cases than I would have guessed, that among my women friends, irrespective of background, their own childhood sex seasons had been exploited and destroyed by the misdeeds of uncles and fathers, cousins, friends, strangers.

Yet when I waved at those two girls I noticed I couldn't rid myself of the idea that they were timeless symbols of girlhood, or of childish friendship.

alas, raising a young lady is a mystery even beyond an enchanter's skill.

Lily's fight with Phoebe felt like a confrontation with her own inner twelve-year-old self, and perhaps that's why she gets so irrationally angry with her daughter. Like Paisley, Lily has her own inner bad girl. Like Paisley's, Lily's inner devil is probably also a tween betwixt girlhood and adulthood,

All girls [should read] THE BREADWINNER by Deborah Ellis. ~ Malala Yousafzai

Girls throughout the world should be able to make decisions about their own lives. If they have the opportunity to attend school, they will become independent and strong.

We human girls can be persuaded to do ANYTHING. Just yesterday I said I would never ever wear a tampon, and, well what do you know?! Today I'm wearing one.

Being a girl is so hard, Katie thought. And it only gets harder.    The