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
“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
'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
We love a girl for very different qualities than understanding. We love her for her beauty, her youth, her mirth, her confidingness,… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of… — Jessica Valenti 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
After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it. — Tessa Dare 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
“Kelly and I saw a future (otherwise known as the sixth grade) in which we would remain invisible and unchanged while around… — Monique Truong Copy Share Image
Girlhood ... is the intellectual phase of a woman's life, that time when, unencumbered by societal expectations or hormonal rages, one may… — Alice Kahn 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
“Carrie was one of the ambitious yet common-place girls who wish to shine, without knowing the difference between the glitter of a… — Louisa May Alcott 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
Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
“I guess I just thought that I was finally a real girl." "Hey! None of that!" She takes me by the shoulders.… — April Daniels Copy Share Image
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice. — Tori Amos Copy Share Image
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
