“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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 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
“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
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
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
