Stories Girls Quote by Ariel Levy

“Women's fiction is just a marketing category, designed to appeal more to women than to men. But there are stories in that category that…

— Kristine Grayson

We should be telling girls what they already know but rarely see affirmed: that the lives they lead inside their own self-contained bodies; the…

— Naomi Wolf

“Woman, especially her sexuality, provides the object of endless commentary , description, supposition. But the result of all the telling only deepens the enigma…

— Peter Brooks

“I Write books for the little girl in the adult woman who some man told she was not good enough. Let us dismantle the…

— Crystal Evans

“This collection propose that contemporary stories of girlhood constitute a new and generative lens for literary and cultural study.”

— Ruth O. Saxton

I think it's a little bit taboo to have a coming-of-age story where a girl explores her sexuality. That just doesn't happen a lot.

— Josephine Langford

“I have female friends that get mails from publishers that read 'Hey. I heard you write about sex. This is a very popular topic…

— Martinus Hendrikus Benders

“Strategic girls manage perception; idealistic girls go up against the narrative, because it’s at the root of the problem, and they get crushed every…

— Carina Chocano

“If I’m unhappy with how female stories are portrayed, then at least I can do something about it. The great thing about being a…

— Elinor Cook

“It’s all society is, the repressed sex drives of men, the objectification of women, their paranoia, the posturing, the macho stances, the beauty standard,…

— Trevor D. Richardson

I'm glad people see some of the stories that way. I see where they're coming from, although none of the stories are specifically intended…

— Nick Antosca

My kind of nightmare quote is from Deborah Tolman, who does research on girls and desire and is, I think, brilliant. She told me…

— Peggy Orenstein