“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether | Thrown on fire--just | A… — Lucie Brock-Broido Copy Share Image
“The whistle buried under my skin and became a permanent part of me. I had a radar for certain eyes afterward. It… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming… — Lucy Larcom Copy Share Image
“There are times when girls are inspired, when they want the risks to go on and on. They want to be heroines,… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
“Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended, stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owner's… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Lizzie Harris's Stop Wanting is an unflinching book about a girlhood filled with violence, doubt, vulnerability, and loss. These gorgeously crafted and… — Rachel Zucker Copy Share Image
I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some… — Mary Balogh Copy Share Image
Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which… — Janet Mock Copy Share Image
“Just as the sheet nearest to hand takes from a master The true hasty stroke, just so The mirror often takes into… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
“Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
