Femininity Quote by Peggy Orenstein

Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of…

— Sheila Jeffreys

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

“By high school, some girls may be mature enough to be sexually active, but my experience is that the more mature and healthy girls…

— Mary Pipher

Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little…

— Amelia Earhart

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

— Peggy Orenstein

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

— Peggy Orenstein

“If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of the matter:…

— Jessica Valenti

When women are subordinate by their culture, in being able to anticipate or think about pleasurable sex, it boosts dopamine, which is about confidence…

— Naomi Wolf

Sex is more openly spoken about than 40, 50 years ago, and I think probably in comparison to a lot of bands - certainly…

— Gwenno

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

Culture and society determined sexual desirability as what makes us important so long that it's part of our sensibility from birth.Little girls know. From…

— Cris Mazza

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