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“Yes, she was now a young woman but she would for ever be his little girl.”

— Angela Marsons

“Mary feels she should have been a boy and then everything would have been so much easier. She fights against her femininity in a…

— Jessica Fellowes

“With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but more often than not. With girls, Why…

— Helen Oyeyemi

“She cursed her gender. Nobody would have dared attack her if she had been a man.”

— Stieg Larsson

“...she immediately became the person they believed her to be: a peculiar, impatient girl, attractive enough yet too old and odd for the village…

— Daphne Kalotay

“She refused to be one of those girls who gave up on everything they'd been planning simply because a boy entered the picture.”

— Sandhya Menon

“She was a virgin and a warrior, disdainful of the male, which was what eventually convinced people that she really must be off her…

— Émile Zola

“But there was something strange about her that made me think she was "somebody." I don't mean her poise, the cool manner in which…

— Anne Rice

“Interesting, but she could see that the boy didn't have a single lie in him. A very rare condition, especially for the male of…

— Alice Hoffman

“None of them was willing to be a girl," he said. "You can see why not." "I know, right? I don't blame them," she…

— Margaret Atwood

“what the boy felt at that moment was that he was in the presence of the only woman in his life, and that, with…

— Paulo Coelho

“She was twenty-five before it occurred to her that she could have insulted him back, but the rule of life was that the boys…

— Liane Moriarty