girls

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83d9c50	Better to be strong than pretty and useless.	girls inspirational pretty strength women	Lilith Saintcrow
38bbe6a	"Fat' is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain... I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? 'You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!' 'Well,' I said, slightly nonplussed, 'the last time you saw me I'd just had a baby.'	fat girls j-k-rowling	J.K. Rowling
c7817df	Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.	ally carter gallagher girls inspirational	Ally Carter
b4b7b63	She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.	girls inspirational loneliness suffering comfort	Betty Smith
f6940bc	In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter--they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.	girls half-moon investigations mystery	Eoin Colfer
faa7513	"You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job."	evvy girl girls trouble	Tamora Pierce
0706ac0	So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.	girls kurt-vonnegut machines manipulation thinking women	Kurt Vonnegut
e1d30cb	Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.	darkness freshness girls intimacy movie-theatres music rock-and-roll sadness smell summer summer-nights tears	Haruki Murakami
07ca8a2	Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag of something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?' Like my dad will say, 'I can't talk to you when you're hysterical.' And I'm totally not being hysterical! I'm just mad. And he's the one losing it. But then I feel embarrassed anyway. So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not.	girls teens	Libba Bray
0ed56f5	You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time?	discord girls self three	Neil Gaiman
083d173	Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time	actors girls inspirational love singers talent	Justin Bieber
14da37f	girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you.	bukowski death dull funny girls hell irony life love misogyny poem poetry rejection sexuality women	Charles Bukowski
5857556	Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!	girls love purity self-sacrifice suffering women	Honoré de Balzac
ba49c51	There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.	girls	Haruki Murakami
ad63482	Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.	dating girls relationship rock-star simon-lewis	Cassandra Clare
3353b9c	I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.	bikini-wax funny girl girls girly humor humour shaving	Libba Bray
b54cc2e	Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.	girls life	Neil Gaiman
bd73c03	Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.	girls kiss kissing truth	John Green
a1aa098	She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.	fashion girls	Zadie Smith
98aaa73	Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.	girls harry-potter hermione humor parvati	J.K. Rowling
fae7222	"He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine."	girls inspirational touching	Rick Riordan
2f05f76	"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to."	expectations girls men men-and-women sense taran	Lloyd Alexander
f929054	Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?	girls	Kelley Armstrong
c766383	I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.	girls pressure relateable	Sue Monk Kidd
9ed3579	Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight	girls running wild youth	Vladimir Nabokov
1471625	~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.	girls love relationships romance	Charlotte Brontë
6c4c27c	Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia	girls high-school sex	Aimee Bender
92bbe5b	The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying	girls lord-loss	Darren Shan
609e441	How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?	clever girls harry-potter hermione-granger jk-rowling page-538 the-half-blood-prince	J.K. Rowling
6df1202	Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.	girls	Margaret Atwood
baa73a6	I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.	girls	Margaret Atwood
483a32a	"He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes."	girls	Barbara Kingsolver
4fd9593	Girls are cruelest to themselves. Someone like Emily Bronte, who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.	girls poem poetry self-cruelty the-glass-essay women	Anne Carson
5514a34	I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.	dance girls stereotypes	Melissa Kantor
39fbc26	It's really difficult to talk about dead people, but it's even harder to talk about dead young women. It's because from the time they die, they'll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day, we get older. Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next. It's a terrible thing, but that's reality.	death girls	Haruki Murakami
e7663ce	The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.	girls men-and-women relationships	George Saunders
a47af1d	This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It's as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.	girls murder shame women	Margaret Atwood
8fa2c26	He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she'd fall on her face. She said, If we don't let her have one like all the other girls she'll feel singled out. It'll become an issue. She'll long for one and she'll long to turn into one. Repression breeds sublimation. You know that. He said, It's not just the pointy plastic tits, it's the wardrobes. The wardrobes and that stupid male doll, what's his name, the one with the underwear glued on. She said, Better to get it over with when she's young. He said, All right but don't let me see it. She came whizzing down the stairs, thrown like a dart. She was stark naked. Her hair had been chopped off, her head was turned back to front, she was missing some toes and she'd been tattooed all over her body with purple ink, in a scrollwork design. She hit the potted azalea, trembled there for a moment like a botched angel, and fell. He said, I guess we're safe.	beauty feminine femininity gender-roles gender-stereotypes girls humor role-models women	Margaret Atwood
115f21b	"Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy."	girls jo-s-boys louisa-may-alcott	Louisa May Alcott
e54ab6d	for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair	feminism girls mermaids strength vampires wild-women wolves women	Francesca Lia Block
f5e9b53	They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean	girls humor	Laurie Halse Anderson
e198b78	"A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" "I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." "I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say."	alice-in-wonderland eat-eggs girls serpent	Lewis Carroll
5400eb8	They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.	conversations discarded girls mouths pretty smiles smoke ugly words	Markus Zusak
b6724fd	She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there's no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.	girls louisa-may-alcott love lovers manhood modern-magic romance	Louisa May Alcott
ce93fa0	This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.	daughters girls	Zadie Smith
df04fd7	"Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty. 'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.' They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'. 'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me."	girls goodness safety teacher truth	Muriel Spark
28bbdd4	As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.	fiction ghosts girls handwritten lasting pen prologue second-sight truth where	Richard Peck
0a57740	I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.	american-revolution girls spirit	Ann Rinaldi
0d2f7ad	We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out, since the loss of virginity is a process that usually involves two people of opposite genders).	feminist girls virginity	Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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5467aca	They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn't think 'us' because I didn't feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them.	friends girls magical other otherness outsider	Francesca Lia Block
f4279bf	When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.	circus dating funny girls humor life life-experience love teenagers	Annette Curtis Klause
e0b95de	To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.	girls women	Neal Stephenson
61d0c30	Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or -- most crucially of all, for a teenage girl -- simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right -- right, down into their clever, brilliant bones -- but lonely.	girls individualism individuality women	Caitlin Moran
1c7b51b	All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything. Everyone was so full of crap.	drama girls society	Blake Nelson
3bd9ae8	When we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles	dreams games girls	Laurie Halse Anderson
d5edfc0	... just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do.	girls rights rules women	Roxane Gay
0f091c1	Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more damage was done them, then she began picking among the grass blades where she thought the pearls might have fallen. Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.	girls	Colleen McCullough
0ee182a	They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.	girls	Robin Wasserman
b2887c1	"I'm going to say this once here, and then--because it is obvious--I will not repeat it in the course of this book: not all boys engage in such behavior, not by a long shot, and many young men are girls' staunchest allies. However, every girl I spoke with, every single girl--regardless of her class, ethnicity, or sexual orientation; regardless of what she wore, regardless of her appearance--had been harassed in middle school, high school, college, or, often, all three. Who, then, is truly at risk of being "distracted" at school?	girls self-objectification	Peggy Orenstein
76aad71	"One of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience, was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?... If I had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: "Educate girls." --	girls	Shashi Tharoor
c69165c	At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.	girls learning	Elizabeth Gilbert
344fb6f	She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all. (This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest)	fancy girls possum wandering woods	Charles de Lint
ffdde12	I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.	girls giving-thanks meaning-of-life pointlessness	Garth Ennis
9b69f88	She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all.	fancy girls possum wandering woods	Charles de Lint
e14f20e	And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.	girls sarcasm set-in-darkness university women	Ian Rankin

Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

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Lilith Saintcrow

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"Fat' is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her. I mean, is 'fat' really the worst thing a human being can be? Is 'fat' worse than 'vindictive', 'jealous', 'shallow', 'vain', 'boring' or 'cruel'? Not to me; but then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I'm not in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and earning my living by using my brain... I went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped into a woman I hadn't seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to me? 'You've lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!' 'Well,' I said, slightly nonplussed, 'the last time you saw me I'd just had a baby.'

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J.K. Rowling

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Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.

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Ally Carter

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She had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.

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Betty  Smith

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In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are smarter--they plan ahead. They think about not getting caught.

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Eoin Colfer

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"You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job."

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Tamora Pierce

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So, in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.

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Kurt Vonnegut

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Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock 'n' roll. Tears were warm, and girls were beautiful, like dreams. I liked movie theaters, the darkness and intimacy, and I liked the deep, sad summer nights.

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Haruki Murakami

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Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it's so much pressure all the time and if you get upset or angry, people say, 'Are you on the rag of something?' And it's like I want to say, 'No. I'm just pissed off right now. Can't I just be pissed off? How come that's not okay for me?' Like my dad will say, 'I can't talk to you when you're hysterical.' And I'm totally not being hysterical! I'm just mad. And he's the one losing it. But then I feel embarrassed anyway. So I slap on that smile and pretend everything's okay even though it's not.

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Libba Bray

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You're a poem?' I repeated. She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, or a race of people whose whose world was swallowed by the sea.' 'Isn't it hard to be three things at the same time?' 'What's your name?' 'Enn.' 'So you are Enn,' she said. 'And you are a male. And you are a biped. Is it hard to be three things at the same time?

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Neil Gaiman

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Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time

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Justin Bieber

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girls please give your bodies and your lives to the young men who deserve them besides there is no way I would welcome the intolerable dull senseless hell you would bring me and I wish you luck in bed and out but not in mine thank you.

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Charles Bukowski

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

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Honoré de Balzac

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There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; two, tell her you like what she's wearing; and three, treat her to really good food...If you do all that and still don't get the results you want, better give up.

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Haruki Murakami

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Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once. Think about it. That's like...having rock-star problems.' 'Having rock-star problems may be the closest I ever get to being an actual rock star.

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Cassandra Clare

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I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

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Libba Bray

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Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose her path right, free from unkindness and fear.

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Neil Gaiman

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Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be rejected than guys, (b) that way, girls will never get kissed unless they want to be kissed.

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John Green

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She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

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Zadie Smith

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Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermione in Transfiguration. He looked around and saw that Hermione was beaming back, if possible even more brightly. Girls were very strange sometimes.

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J.K. Rowling

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"He touched the screen as if trying to reach through with his hand. "You're a wonderful young lady. I don't tell you that often enough. You remind me so much of your mother. She'd be proud. And Grandpa Tom" --he chuckled-- "he always said you'd be the most powerful voice in our family. You're going to outshine me some day, you know. They're going to remember me as Piper McLean's father, and that's the best legacy I can imagine."

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Rick Riordan

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"I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, "We aren't really expected to."

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Lloyd Alexander

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Why is it that every time a girl says a guy is bothering her, it's fluffed off with oh, he just likes you, as if that makes it okay?

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Kelley Armstrong

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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I was impersonating a girl instead of really being one.

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Sue Monk Kidd

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Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

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Vladimir Nabokov

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~Do you like him much? ~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very much? He is full of faults. ~Is he? ~All boys are. ~More than girls? ~Very likely. Wise people say it is folly to think anyboy perfect, and as to likes and diskiles, we should be friendly to all, and worship none.

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Charlotte Brontë

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Several of the girls at the party had had sex, something which sounded appealing but only if it could happen with blindfolds in a time warp plus amnesia

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Aimee Bender

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The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying

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Darren Shan

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How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

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J.K. Rowling

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Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

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Margaret Atwood

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I'm not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don't know what to say. I know the unspoken rules of boys, but with girls I sense that I am always on the verge of some unforeseen, calamitous blunder.

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Margaret Atwood

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"He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is like pouring water in your shoes,' he still loves to say, as often as possible. 'It's hard to say which is worse, seeing it run out and waste the water, or seeing it hold in and wreck the shoes."

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Barbara Kingsolver

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Girls are cruelest to themselves. Someone like Emily Bronte, who remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman, had cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.

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Anne Carson

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I hate gender stereotypes like girls love princesses and boys like guns. . . my point is that tying particular behaviors and interests to particular gender seems to be the major reason guys who like dance get called names.

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Melissa Kantor

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It's really difficult to talk about dead people, but it's even harder to talk about dead young women. It's because from the time they die, they'll be young forever. On the other hand, for us, the survivors, every year, every month, every day, we get older. Sometimes, I feel like I can feel myself aging from one hour to the next. It's a terrible thing, but that's reality.

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Haruki Murakami

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The thing about girls? Suzanne said. Is we are more content-driven.

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George Saunders

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Cordelia does not want to talk about her. It's as if this girl has done something shameful, herself, by being murdered.

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Margaret Atwood

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He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beauty, not to mention anatomy. If a real woman was built like that she'd fall on her face. She said, If we don't let her have one like all the other girls she'll feel singled out. It'll become an issue. She'll long for one and she'll long to turn into one. Repression breeds sublimation. You know that. He said, It's not just the pointy plastic tits, it's the wardrobes. The wardrobes and that stupid male doll, what's his name, the one with the underwear glued on. She said, Better to get it over with when she's young. He said, All right but don't let me see it. She came whizzing down the stairs, thrown like a dart. She was stark naked. Her hair had been chopped off, her head was turned back to front, she was missing some toes and she'd been tattooed all over her body with purple ink, in a scrollwork design. She hit the potted azalea, trembled there for a moment like a botched angel, and fell. He said, I guess we're safe.

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Margaret Atwood

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"Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy."

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Louisa May Alcott

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for frail but surprisingly strong fairies who had lost their way above ground for burned mermaids and sick vampire girls for wild wolfish women with sharp teeth and leaves in their hair

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Francesca Lia Block

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They mean hot like 'I'm too good for you I got my own money don't be frontin' me.' You're more like 'Be my boyfriend I'll make you cookies come meet my dad ' know what I mean

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Laurie Halse Anderson

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"A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many little girls in my time, but never one with such a neck as that! No, no! You're a serpent; and there's no use denying it. I suppose you'll be telling me next that you never tasted an egg!" "I have tasted eggs, certainly," said Alice, who was a very truthful child; "but little girls eat eggs quite as much as serpents do, you know." "I don't believe it," said the Pigeon; "but if they do, then they're a kind of serpent: that's all I can say."

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Lewis Carroll

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They're brainless girls, otherwise they wouldn't be seen dead here. They're pretty, with ugly, appealing smiles and conversations we can't hear. They breathe smoke and blow it out, and words drop from their mouths and get crushed to the floor. Or they get discarded, just to glow with warmth for a moment, for someone else to tread on later.

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Markus Zusak

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She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike any girl I ever saw; there's no sentimentality about her; she is wise, and kind, and sweet. She says what she means, looks you straight in the eye, and is as true as steel.

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Louisa May Alcott

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This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-disgust.

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Zadie Smith

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"Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underneath the big elm. On the way through the school corridors they passed the headmistress's study. The door was wide open, the room was empty. 'Little girls,' said Miss Brodie, 'come and observe this.' They clustered round the open door while she pointed to a large poster pinned with drawing-pins on the opposite wall within the room. It depicted a man's big face. Underneath were the words 'Safety First'. 'This is Stanley Baldwin who got in as Prime Minister and got out again ere long,' said Miss Brodie. 'Miss Mackay retains him on the wall because she believes in the slogan "Safety First". But Safety does not come first. Goodness, Truth and Beauty come first. Follow me."

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Muriel Spark

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As I pen these words to leave a lasting record, I wonder myself where it all began.

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Richard Peck

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I find American girls have a spirit and honesty about them that is most refreshing.

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Ann Rinaldi

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We police girls. We praise girls for virginity but we don't praise boys for virginity (and it makes me wonder how exactly this is supposed to work out, since the loss of virginity is a process that usually involves two people of opposite genders).

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Alice Munro

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They were laughing and their hair was shining like leaves in moonlight, their limbs long as saplings. I thought, Girls are magical at this phase, girls are invincible, nothing can touch them. I didn't think 'us' because I didn't feel that; I felt other, on the outside, watching them.

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Francesca Lia Block

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When a boy's first romantic interlude is with Pheobe the Dog-Faced Girl, he feels a need to get out into the world and find a new life.

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Annette Curtis Klause

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To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching without attracting him in a way that would have been creepy.

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Neal Stephenson

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Your hard-won triumphs can be wholly negated if you live in a climate where your victories are seen as threatening, incorrect, distasteful, or -- most crucially of all, for a teenage girl -- simply uncool. Few girls would choose to be right -- right, down into their clever, brilliant bones -- but lonely.

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Caitlin Moran

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All the girls stared at me with hatred in their eyes. It was a big drama that had to be acted out. But deep down, nobody really cared. The other girls didn't care about Jennifer. Jennifer didn't care about me. I didn't care about anything. Everyone was so full of crap.

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Blake Nelson

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When we were girls we rode horses disguised as bicycles

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Laurie Halse Anderson

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... just one more reminder that the rules are always different for girls, no matter who they are and no matter what they do.

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Roxane Gay

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Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more damage was done them, then she began picking among the grass blades where she thought the pearls might have fallen. Her tears were blinding her, the grief in her heart new, for until now she had never owned anything worth grieving for.

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Colleen McCullough

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They wondered at the consequences of teaching a girl she was weak instead of warning her she was strong.

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Robin Wasserman

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"I'm going to say this once here, and then--because it is obvious--I will not repeat it in the course of this book: not all boys engage in such behavior, not by a long shot, and many young men are girls' staunchest allies. However, every girl I spoke with, every single girl--regardless of her class, ethnicity, or sexual orientation; regardless of what she wore, regardless of her appearance--had been harassed in middle school, high school, college, or, often, all three. Who, then, is truly at risk of being "distracted" at school?

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Peggy Orenstein

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"One of the more difficult questions I used to find myself being asked as a United Nations official, especially when I had been addressing a generalist audience, was: What is the single most important thing that can be done to improve the world?... If I had to pick one thing we must do above all else, I now offer a two-word mantra: "Educate girls." --

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Shashi Tharoor

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At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished from too much learning.

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Elizabeth Gilbert

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She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all. (This text is originally from A Circle of Cats, which was revised and re-adapted by the author for The Cats of Tanglewood Forest)

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Charles de Lint

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I get down on my knees every mornin' an' give eternal thanks for the existence of girls in a otherwise pointless universe.

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Garth Ennis

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She hadn't meant to fall asleep, but she was a bit like a cat herself, forever wandering in the woods, chasing after squirrels and rabbits as fast as her skinny legs could take her when the fancy struck, climbing trees like a possum, able to doze in the sun at a moment's notice. And sometimes with no notice at all.

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Charles de Lint

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And little girls went to charm schools. Now you've all got degrees from the University of Sarcasm.

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