“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
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
“part. These elements, though small and insignificant to passersby, made up my girlhood,” — Janet Mock 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
After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it. — Tessa Dare 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
“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
“Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy.” — Kyle Labe Copy Share Image
Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood. — Autumn Reeser 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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“I found the world of the Little House books to be so much less confusing, not just because it was "simpler," as… — Wendy McClure 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
“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
“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
Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice. — Tori Amos 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
'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
“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
