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Girls Quotes by Mary Pipher
- Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.
- Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment…
- Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live…
- Something dramatic happens to girls in early adolescence. Just as planes and ships disappear mysteriously into the Bermuda Triangle, so do the selves of girls…
- Girls developed eating disorders when our culture developed a standard of beauty that they couldn't obtain by being healthy. When unnatural thinness became attractive, girls…
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- Few girls are as well shaped as a good horse. — Hannah Arendt
- Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the… — Paul Auster
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized. — Margaret Atwood
- Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of… — Jane Austen
- I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the… — Jensen Ackles
- There is no city or country in the world where women and girls live free of the fear of violence. No leader… — Michelle Bachelet
- Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. — David Bailey
- I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. — David Bailey
- I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
- Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls. — Bruce Barton