Quote by Mary Pipher

“Girls are weighed down by restrictions, boys with demands - two equally harmful disciplines.”

— Simone de Beauvoir

“Young girls are just too eager to grow up these days. Youth should be enjoyed not escaped,”

— Angela Marsons

“Girl children are not safe in a world where there are men. They need to learn to be strong. There”

— Roxane Gay

“There is a paradox at the heart of contemporary Girl Land, and this paradox makes the emotional experience of female adolescence more intense and…

— Caitlin Flanagan

“For one of the first pressures that bear down on American girls is the pressure not only to be liked but to be like…

— Debra Ollivier

“Becoming a woman is an act partly of nature and partly of self-invention; Girl Land is the place and time in which all of…

— Caitlin Flanagan

“We were girls, you see, not even women, just girls, most of us when we started. And the boys were just boys, not men,…

— Michael Grant

“Little girls are kept away from the things that would make them strong, in the name of protection and propriety.”

— Sara Donati

Young girls getting into feminism.

— Kathleen Hanna

“A community that finds it natural to suffocate with the care of home and children so many women’s intellectual energies is its own enemy…

— Elena Ferrante

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

“Your life can be different, Young Ju. Study and be strong. In America, women have choices.”

— An Na