America Quote by Sister Souljah

I'm just very aware of the differences between the way society treats the sexes. I'm aware of how those things can negatively influence a…

— Adrian Lester

As a kid, you get to the stage where you realise the gender barriers that exist in society and what you're supposed to do…

— Andrej Pejic

“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

I think society is so hard on young women. Growing up, the images that I saw, the standards that I had to live up…

— Shannon Purser

“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

There are relatively few role models for young people. We are in a society that is ruled by men.

— Catherine Deneuve

Adolescence in our culture for a young woman, for a girl, is a hard road.

— Rodney Crowell

My theory of everything is that we are training kids to have gender bias against girls, therefore when you are an adult, you don't…

— Geena Davis

Many societies have educated their male children on the simple device of teaching them not to be women.

— Margaret Mead

Girls inevitably grew into women, but something of the boy persisted in every man.

— Mary Roberts Rinehart

People who cling rigidly to gender binaries are more than welcome to. But for a lot of young people, we're seeing that our gender…

— Courtney Act

The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every generation there…

— Elisabeth Elliot