- “Here are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as rocks.” ― Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister
- “The world doesn’t need a good woman who is meekly obedient to the uncivilized social norms that advocate female inferiority. The world needs those bad women who can think for themselves, to break the primeval norms of the society that consistently drag the human civilization back to the stone-age.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults.~Is he?~All boys are.~More than girls?~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.” ― Charlotte Brontë, Villette
- “You should have told her differently,’ said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. ‘You should have said it was really annoying, but I’d made you promise to come along to the Three Broomsticks, and you really didn’t want to go, you’d much rather spend the whole day with her, but unfortunately you thought you really ought to meet me and would she please, please come along with you, and hopefully you’d be able to get away more quickly? And it might have been a good idea to mention how ugly you think I am too,’ Hermione added as an afterthought.’But I don’t think you’re ugly,’ said Harry, bemused.Hermione laughed.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
- “…ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.” ― Washington Irving, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
- “Run wild and free like a waterfall” ― Anamika Mishra
- “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.” ― M. Gigi Durham, The Lolita Effect: The Media Sexualization of Young Girls and What We Can Do About It
- “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
- “She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered ‘different.’ She did not suffer too much.” ― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- “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
- “Women are no sheep. Women are no fragile showpiece to be placed above the fire-place. Women of the thinking society are the builders of nations. Women of the sentient society are the builders of the world.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “Say to yourself, I am perfect, the way I am. Say to yourself, I am beautiful the way I am. Say to yourself, those who do not accept me the way I am, do not deserve me in their life.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “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
- “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
- “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 get under each other’s skin. We get too close, too attached, too crazy, and then we can’t let go. Our claws sink too deep. When we separate, we tear each other apart.” ― Leah Raeder, Black Iris
- “Girls know the value of a good secret.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- “To lovers there.Most ladies the reason they are dumped and their relationship doesn’t last is they made themselves to become a want than a need in a relationship.” ― De philosopher DJ Kyos
- “Everything hurts right now and nothing is helping because as the pain is getting worse — so is the love.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “I met a boy whose eyes showed me that the past, present and future were all the same thing.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “I could watch him do this until morning — never asking questions and never interrupting his work. I worship quietly — his intense focus and attention to detail and then, out of no where, I realize the inconvenient, inappropriate truth: ‘I love this man… and it has swallowed me.” ― Jennifer Elisabeth
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “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
- “He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god.” ― Roman Payne
- “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
- “A girl who travels will need someone that questions her, not too little, and not too much. She’ll need someone to read her, but also really listen to her. Because she’ll want to do the same. She’ll want a person that shares an interest but at the same time stays genuine to who they are. Not drown in a puddle of narcissism. And not drown in a lake of fascination.” ― lauren klarfeld
- “If attempting to make the world a civilized one, makes you a bad woman in the eyes of the dumb patriarchal society, then, by all means, be it.” ― Abhijit Naskar, The Bengal Tigress: A Treatise on Gender Equality
- “What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s course.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess