“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“If being a girl is a frontier all its own, what is the manifest destiny?” — Wendy McClure Copy Share Image
Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood. — Autumn Reeser Copy Share Image
“Even as you kept telling me that I'm becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be… — Ibi Zoboi Copy Share Image
“This collection propose that contemporary stories of girlhood constitute a new and generative lens for literary and cultural study.” — Ruth O. Saxton Copy Share Image
“Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint.… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
I like 'Girlhood' because it has this universal feeling, and that's also the project of the film, to bring very contemporaneous characters… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Obviously, I can't tell the story of what it is to be a black girl, but maybe I can tell something else.… — Celine Sciamma Copy Share Image
All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot… — Ilka Chase Copy Share Image
The girl of the period sets up to be natural, and is only rude; mistakes insolence for innocence; says everything that comes… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
“In a patriarchal society, one of the most important functions of the institution of the family is to make feel like a… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I was a working class Jewish girl. In my girlhood, anti-Semitism was a daily fact of life in Detroit. I did not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
“We fold our immigrant selves into this veneer of what we think is African American girlhood. The result is more jagged than… — Ibi Zoboi Copy Share Image
The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words,… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
How rarely boyhood loves to paint in glowing tints his future bright, a picture where no line is faint--whose very clouds are… — Cecil Frances Alexander 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
“In striving to fulfill our identities as women, it's important not to confound the various passages of life with each other. What… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
“A doll is among the most pressing needs as well as the most charming instincts of feminine childhood. To care for it,… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
