Quotes about girls
M.F. Moonzajer -
Every man love to see a world full of women and girls even if it costs him killing every man in the world.
Marissa Walsh - Girl with Glasses: My Optic History
GWGs [girls with glasses] aren't happy being nomads they need a safe place to put their glasses while they sleep.
Catherynne M. Valente - The Melancholy of Mechagirl
Robots are like Mars: they needgirls. Boys won't dothe memesoup is all wrong. They stompwhen they should kissand they're none too keenon having things shoved inside them...It's not a robotuntil you put a girl inside. Sometimes I feel like that. A junkyard the Company forgot to put a girl in.
Meenakshi Gigi Durham - The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
In the realm of love and sex, it’s girls who are in the position of working hard to adapt themselves to the needs and fantasies of the mercurial males whose approval and attention they seek.
Miya Yamanouchi - Embrace Your Sexual Self: A Practical Guide for Women
You can always evaluate a man's character by the way he speaks about his ex girlfriends and other women. When entering a new relationship or getting close with a new guy, make sure you take notice of the language he uses when referring to other girls
Daniel Handler - All the Dirty Parts
For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the complication, you're probably it.
Emma Cline - The Girls
She must have already forgiven him for leaving her behind. Girls were good at colouring in those disappointing blank spots. I thought of the night before, her exaggerated moans.
Sweara Ahmed -
So, the darkness hid the little girl in herself,to protect her from the wolves with the human mask on their faces.
Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey
The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen of a sister author; and to her treatment of the subject I will only add, in justice to men, that though to the larger and more trifling part of the sex, imbecility in females is a great enhancement of their personal charms, there is a portion of them too reasonable and too well informed themselves to desire anything more in woman than ignorance.
Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible
He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes.
Anamika Mishra -
Run wild and free like a waterfall
Peg Tyre - and What Parents and Educators
Kelli Farrell talks about the difference between girls and boys who struggle to get through high school: "Girls, especially those whose moms are head of household, get the message that men come and go, that they're going to have to take care of themselves and their kids. They're ready for the opportunity to step up. By the last year or two in high school, many boys have already steeled themselves for failure. They've checked out intellectually, mentally, and emotionally.
Christine de Pizan - The Book of the City of Ladies
If it were customary to send little girls to school and teach them the same subjects as are taught to boys, they would learn just as fully and would understand the subtleties of all arts and sciences.
Steve Maraboli -
...she doesn't have to choose between being gentle or being fierce. Both exist in nature and both exist in her. That's ok. She'll know to nourish them both and when applicable, use each unapologetically.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Being a Dream Girl is never going to be about what you look like or how much you weigh. After all, our physical appearances are just reflections of our inner worlds. What makes you a Dream Girl is your emotional sensitivity, your self-awareness, and your ability to communicate who you are effectively and compassionately in the world.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Can you identify the source preventing you from feeling good every single day, from loving yourself unconditionally and making your dreams come true? Is it a voice in your head or a gut wrenching ache that compromises your inner peace and doesn’t allow you to accept the love around you? Is there one thing, or maybe many things, keeping you from forgiving your past and moving forward, tormenting you with lies like “You don’t deserve real love so just settle for whatever you can get,” “You’re not
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Even if we try to conform to ideals and strive for perfection, we will always be pulled back to our core identity because it’s the path of least resistance for our souls – an energy force that wants nothing more than for us to honor and accept who we are and discover what we’re meant to do in the world.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Starting over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
This is your life – not your parents’, teachers’ or significant other’s. If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car, get out – change your shoes and start walking.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I never want you to deny anything about yourself because you have grown up thinking it’s unacceptable or inconvenient for the people around you.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
Love is my drug of choice, even if it comes laced with pain and disaster.
Ally Carter -
I wanted to pull away, remind him that I was a big girl, a highly trained operative, a spy - that I'd been training for this mission my entire life, and I wasn't going to be left on the sidelines. But in the dim space with Zach pressed tightly against me, only one thought came to mind. I kissed him - longer and deeper than I ever had before. The school was not watching us this time. There was nothing playful in the tone. We were just two people kissing as if for the first time, as if it might be
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I’ve always seen this in you, ever since you were a little girl — this hunger to love other people into their highest selves and it’s what has made me irreversibly and just so forever in love with you.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Please… Whoever you are, whatever you are… I believe in you even though I don’t completely understand you. I feel you around me even though I can’t exactly describe what I’m feeling. Sometimes things happen to me and I know that you’re there and I’m humbled by the lack of coincidence that exists in the world. Whatever you want from me, it’s yours — just please help me. You know how I get when I lose control, and I find myself constantly being pulled back there these days.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Don’t worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and become who they’re destined to be.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Does our purpose on Earth directly link to the people whom we end up meeting? Are our relationships and experiences actually the required dots that connect and then lead us to our ultimate destinies?
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
For so many years, I couldn’t understand why every time I thought that someone finally loved me, like… for real, they would eventually turn to vapor. Every person whom I’ve ever loved is trapped inside of my chest. I’ve breathed all of them in so deeply that I’ve nearly choked and died on every soul that I’ve ever given myself to.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
Let this time in your life cut you open and drain all of the things that are holding you back. I’m going to help you forgive the things that you won’t let yourself forget.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I fantasize the night sky to be like a cosmic blue print of my life as I close my eyes and unbutton my heart…. just in case anyone up there is listening.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I’ve grown up defined by this desperate, undeniable, ‘can’t breathe’ kind of space inside of myself and I’m afraid that the diagnosis is fatal.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
Something, somewhere, knows what’s best for me and promises to keep sending me people and experiences to light my way as long as I live in gratitude and keep paying attention to the signs.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I know that your soul is on life support and that you feel lost and like you’re completely spinning out of control, but you’re finding yourself — here, tonight… even in this darkness.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
If ever I was running, it was towards you.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I love him in ways that I can’t explain to other people. They don’t understand… it’s not their fault.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I really believe that there is an invisible red thread tied between him and me, and that it has stretched and tangled for years — across oceans and lifetimes. I know that it won’t break because our souls are tied.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes…
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I want you to trust yourself, baby. Love is all that matters and you’ve always known that. You’ve known, since you were a very little girl, what your life is meant to be about…
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I feel a resurgence of my 6-year-old self… that little warrior, goddess of a girl reminding me of who I was when I was little, before the world got its hands on me.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I know that this process of ‘me changing my life’ doesn’t just end once I set fire to this list of things I hate about myself. Tonight isn’t as much of a new beginning as it is a violent end and I know the real work hasn’t even started yet.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I’m going to follow this invisible red thread until I find myself again… until I finally figure out… who I’m meant to be.
Denise Levertov - 1960-1967
Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry.
Brandi L. Bates -
All those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a few notches above.
Christy A. Campbell - A Halo Sun
He wishes he could remember everything. Anything. He doesn’t sense a bone in his body that can feel compassion or worthiness. Self-pity hides away as well, the lowest form of emotion not even capable of resting in his wrecked mind.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
How you spend your time when you are not working or studying says everything about who you are and what is motivating your life.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
You battled monsters. You sweat and cried your way to this one prolific moment where you finally realize that those dark days and sleepless nights were pre-requisites to your becoming.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I never want a girl to lose all hope that her life can’t completely turn around, even if she feels that she is at the edge, standing on one foot, and ready to say goodbye.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Remember, nothing happens before it’s supposed to, so trust that, as you are striving for authenticity and personal excellence, the recognition of your life’s purpose is nearing closer.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I think it all basically breaks down to something like this: You have to look and feel great first. If you eat well, exercise and get enough sleep, you will have ample energy and the proper self-confidence to create and produce beyond your wildest dreams! Looking great and radiating positive energy, while presenting your highest quality work, is what will always make you the most valuable and only logical choice in whatever it is that you reach for.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Although many things may still need to happen before you identify what your exact work will be, I know that every single person whom you’re meeting and every experience that you’re having is necessary to you discovering your purpose. They are points on a map leading you to the moment where a match will finally be lit and you will be able to see through the darkness.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Recognize that you have been chosen to be alive, right now, at this exact moment in time and know that none of that is random. There is something about you, your past or your future that is required at this exact moment in history. We need to know who you are and what you have been through.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
Finding yourself and creating a life that feels authentic and safe is the hardest, most important work that we will ever do and for girls, especially young girls, there is no one more equipped to do this work.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
The only way that you can identify and then fulfill your life’s purpose is for you to love yourself, charge up your life and serve the world.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
As girls, we will do anything for the person whom we love. We will scale buildings in the rain or run through fire if it means saving our love’s life. There is absolutely nothing more life altering that the fire burning inside of our souls for the one we want most…
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
For most of us free-thinking, wild hearts, our relationship with God or the Universe will go through peaks and valleys – transforming into new concepts and beliefs, completely disappearing, at times, only then to instantly explode back into existence by something even as small as a sunset!
Richard Peck - Ghosts I Have Been
As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.
Emma Cline - The Girls
Poor Sasha. Poor girls. The world fattens them on the promise of live. How badly they need it, and how little most of them will ever get. The treacled pop songs, the dresses described in the catalogs with words like 'sunset' and 'Paris.' Then the dreams are taken away with such violent force; the hand wrenching the buttons of the jeans, nobody looking at the man shouting at his girlfriend on the bus
Harper Lee -
It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.
Ruth Park -
What has being a girl to do with anything if a person in properly qualified?' ... 'It's what you call prejudice,' she said.
Emma Cline - The Girls
Adults always teased me about having boyfriends, but there was an age where it was no longer a joke, the idea that boys might actually want you.
Clémentine Beauvais - Piglettes
I don’t understand why you insist on calling yourselves Three Little Piglettes,” Mum groans. “It’s a horrible name.”“We’ll make it beautiful, you’ll see. Or better, we’ll make it powerful.
Jason Porath - and Heretics
What's 'suitable for kids' defines what sort of kids we as a society want. And right now, the girls society wants are the ones who can fit on a short list—while the list for boys is without borders or end.
Laurie Penny - Lies and Revolution
Girls are better at this sort of labour, often called 'emotional labour', not because there's anything in the meat and matter of our living cells that makes us naturally better but because we're trained for it from birth. Trained to make other people feel good. Trained to serve the coffee, fill in the forms, organise the parties and wipe the table afterwards. Trained to be feisty, if we must, but not strong. To be bubbly, not funny. You must at no stage appear to have a body that functions in a
Jodi Lynn Anderson - Tiger Lily
life's better with girls. boys need girls.
Colleen Curran -
We’re your daughters, mister. We’re your girlfriends, we’re your sisters, we’re your precious baby girls. Goddammit, listen.
Robin Wasserman -
Dex's mother knew she should be afraid for her daughter. This, she'd been told, was the tragedy of being a girl. To live in fear–it was the fate of any parent, maybe, but the special provenance of a mother to a daughter, one woman raising another, knowing too well what could happen. This was what lurked inside the luckiest delivery rooms, the ones whose balloons screamed It's a girl!: pink cigars and flowered onesies and fear.
Oche Otorkpa -
From New Delhi to New York, from Durban to Rio; women andgirls are been hunted down by rapists, abused by pedophiles andemotionally decapitated by a society that is becoming increasinglyhostile to the womenfolk
Manasa Rao -
Insecure girls continue to hate and being ashamed of themselves. Thick or thin, tall or short, dark or fair, you’re beautiful the way you are and you don’t realize it. Real men always choose, love, respect, adore the real YOU. If you're changing for your man, something ain't right. Accept, Stay real, Love yourself & know your worth. You're not ugly, Society is...
Ian Rankin - Set in Darkness
And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.
Jessica Roy -
It says a lot about Sandberg’s brand of feminism that this campaign focuses on policing language rather than bringing attention to important issues that have real impact on women and girls
Michelle Markel - Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers' Strike of 1909
[I]n America, wrongs can be righted,warriors can wear skirts and blouses,and the bravest heartsmay beat in girlsonly five feet tall.
Anonymous -
Don’t ever compliment me by insulting other women. That’s not a compliment, it’s a competition none of us agreed to.
Cat Winters - In the Shadow of Blackbirds
Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?
Thomm Quackenbush - #2)
At least the more modern princesses had the guts to do something aside from clean and wait to be rescued. They armed themselves and tried to provide good role models to impressionable girl tykes. It riled some innate feminist... that the princesses were strongest when they were acting like the men...
Amy Engel - The Book of Ivy
My father might not have held my hand or expressed his love openly, but he taught Callie and me that we had inherent values, that we were fully formed human beings without a boy by our side.
Michael Bassey Johnson -
Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
So much has been done to my body, and still, somehow, not enough.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I lost my innocence very young and it had nothing to do with sex.
Oliver Gaspirtz -
A beautiful woman can have almost any man she wants. A rich man can have almost any woman he wants.
Peggy Orenstein - Girls & Sex: Navigating the Complicated New Landscape
Herbenick invited me to sit in on the Human Sexuality class she was about to teach, one of the most popular courses on Indiana’s campus. She was, on that day, delivering a lecture on gender disparities in sexual satisfaction. More than one hundred fifty students were already seated in the classroom when we arrived, nearly all of them female, most dressed in sweats, their hair pulled into haphazard ponytails. They listened raptly as Herbenick explained the vastly different language young men and
Eyden I. - Woman's Book: Only For Men
Sorry girls, not every man is running after what you think.
Ann Landers -
I have leveled with the girls - from Anchorage to Amarillo.I tell them that all marriages are happyIt's the living together afterward that's tough.I tell them that a good marriage is not a gift,It's an achievement.that marriage is not for kids It takes guts and maturity.It separates the men from the boys and the women from the girls.I tell them that marriage is tested dily by the ability to compromise.Its survival can depend on being smart enough to know what's worth fighting about.Or making an
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I write letters to you that you’ll never see.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
He looked at me, that first day, like he had just found something he’d lost a thousand years ago.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
But I love you and I want you and I need you. Can’t you see that? This world has nothing to offer me if it doesn’t include you.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
Time' is the most threatening four letter word.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I’m tired of justifying why I love someone. I’m done with the explaining.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
That last time you kissed me my heart slid past your teeth down into the center of your chest… trapping us both in a stainless cage.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
If I had an .MP3 of your heartbeat… I might actually get some sleep.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I kept waiting for the part where I’d finally know who I was — some flashing, neon moment of relief, but it never came.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
In the old days, when travelers would get lost, they would follow the stars and I love that idea. I wish that I could rely on something as simple and magnificent as a star for all of my aching questions.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I ruin everything. I think that a bullet must have passed through my heart when I was very young, causing me to bleed out slowly, over things and people and every white surface that I’d ever come across.
Jennifer Elisabeth -
I wish that love could be broken down the way it breaks me down.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
I don’t ever want to hurt anyone, but I really wish there was something like a reset button on my life.
Jennifer Elisabeth - Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
He could pour himself into my little paper cup heart and my emptiness would finally have a meaning.