Crosses Quote by Ashley Judd

We know less about the sexual life of little girls than of boys. But we need not feel ashamed of this distinction; after all,…

— Sigmund Freud

“Girls “going wild” aren’t damaging a generation of women, the myth of sexual purity is. The lie of virginity—the idea that such a thing…

— Jessica Valenti

If sexuality is beginning in such a skewed way: that boys expect to receive sexual pleasure and girls are expected to give it without…

— Cris Mazza

Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

— Donald Symons

“As sexual power is learned by adolescent boys through the social experience of their sex drive, so do girls learn that the locus of…

— Kathleen L. Barry

The idea that sex is something a woman gives a man, and she loses something when she does that, which again for me is…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Girls face two major sexual issues in America in the 1990s: One is an old issue of coming to terms with their own sexuality,…

— Mary Pipher

The thing that most distresses me is whenever I see things over sexualized, I worry about young girls. Some of the fall out of…

— Lily Tomlin

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

— Peggy Orenstein

“Sex, after all, is about being separate and joined at the same time. The fact that men tend to emphasize the former and women…

— Michael Bader

As conscious adult women, if we really do care about the state of girls and women worldwide, we need to train this next generation…

— Kamala Lopez

Young women who have experienced commercial sexual exploitation and domestic trafficking face an incredible climb as they try and exit the commercial sex industry…

— Stephanie Ellis