- “I can think of no more dangerous a position than to learn to tolerate evil in order to become accustomed to reality.” ― Sarah Mally, Before You Meet Prince Charming: A Guide to Radiant Purity
- “I can’t forget things, or ignore them-bad things that happen,” I said. “I’m a lay-it-all-out person, a dwell-on-it person, an obsess-about-it person. If I hold things in and try to forget or pretend, I become a madman and have panic attacks. I have to talk.” ― E. Lockhart, Real Live Boyfriends: Yes. Boyfriends, Plural. If My Life Weren’t Complicated, I Wouldn’t Be Ruby Oliver
- “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.” ― Christine de Pizan, The Book of the City of Ladies
- “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
- “All of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.” ― Hannah Harrington, Speechless
- “Gender equality is not a belief, it is not an idea – it is a key element of the society that will define whether we the humans shall march ahead towards glory and advancement, or sink into the abyss of an existential doom.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “If ever I was running, it was towards you.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “A society where feminine beauty is defined not by the human self on genuine intellectual and sentimental grounds, but by a computer software on the grounds of economic interest, is more dead than alive. It is a society of human bodies, not human beings.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “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 the last. And then I broke away. “So,” I asked, as if I got kissed like that all the time (which, believe me, I don’t), “where is it you’re taking me again?” “The tombs.” ― Ally Carter
- “Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.” ― John Green, An Abundance of Katherines
- “All the bloodsheds in human history have been caused by men, not women.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “Beauty is an illusion.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “Ô, the wine of a womanfrom heaven is sent, more perfect than allthat a man can invent.When she came to my bed and begged me with sighsnot to tempt her towards passion nor actions unwise, I told her I’d spare her and kissed her closed eyes, then unbraided her body of its clothing disguise.While our bodies were nude bathed in candlelight fineI devoured her mouth, tender lips divine;and I drank through her thighs her feminine wine.Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent,more perfect than all that a man can invent.” ― Roman Payne
- “girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerabledullsenseless hellyou would bringmeandI wish youluckin bedandoutbut notinminethankyou.” ― Charles Bukowski, You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
- “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
- “Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don’t want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.” ― Kiera Cass, The Selection
- “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
- “Girls know the value of a good secret.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “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, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- “What a hundred caring, courageous and conscientious women can achieve in ten years, would take a thousand men a hundred years.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn’t really my type. Her hair’s kinda disastrously curly and she mostly hangs out with guys. My type’s a little girlier. And honestly, I don’t even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I’m asexual or something – I just find Romance Drama unbearable.” ― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
- “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
- “Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “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 am a scientist who studies the human mind, including the sexual differences in mental faculties, and I am telling you, ten female thinkers can teach humanity lessons equivalent to the teachings of a hundred male thinkers of history.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “There were little girls who would snuggle up to any grown man and try to guide his hand inside their underwear, and there were kids who compulsively bit their own arms. Kids who would suddenly start twitching and banging their heads against a wall, not even stopping when the blood ran down their faces. Kids who waddled around oblivious to the stinking load in their own pants. Watching children like this, it was all too easy to see why their parents beat them. It was only natural to hate such kids, to ignore them and shower only your other children with love. Who wouldn’t? But of course that wasn’t the way it really worked. Such behaviors weren’t the reasons parents abused children, but the results of abuse. Children are powerless. No matter how viciously they’re beaten, children were powerless to do anything about it. Even if Mother hit them with a shoehorn or the hose of a vacuum cleaner or the handle of a kitchen knife, or strangled them or poured boiling water on them, they couldn’t escape her; they couldn’t even truly despise her. Children would struggle desperately to feel love for their parents. Rather than hate a parent, in fact, they’d choose to hate themselves. Love and violence became so intertwined for them that when they grew up and got into relationships, only hysteria could set their hearts at ease. Kindness, gentleness – anything along those lines just caused tension, since there was no telling when it would turn to overt hostility.” ― Ryū Murakami
- “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, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
- “Better to be strong than pretty and useless.” ― Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
- “I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and passion . But my parents just say their prayers because they got used to it .” ― Ali Shariati