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“Do you ever think about how the girls mature faster argument is used to 1) excuse bad behavior from boys, 2) hold girls to a higher standard, and 3) excuse grown men's sexual interest in young girls, but never to give girls respect or positions of responsibility and influence?”

— Sabrina Granger, Do Girls Really Mature Faster Than Boys?

“Let me keep my distance, always, from those who think they have the answers.”

— Mary Oliver, Devotions

“I’m a person who’s been through a lot and doesn’t know what to say about any of it to myself, let alone the world.”

— Ariana Grande, Ariana Grande on Grief and Growing Up

“What if, what if we lost our minds? What if we let them fall behind and they're never found?”

— Troye Sivan, YOUTH

“It's so weird that so many hate accounts can exist on there, and it's like, I'm the one who can't come back? For me, being deplatformed, it definitely feels so targeted.”

— Sandra song, What the Hell Happened to Jovan Hill?

“You may have already heard about Jennifer Dulos, the Connecticut mother of five who went missing from her New Canaan house in May. Her husband and his girlfriend were arrested in connection with her disappearance and compared her case to Gone Girl (which the author of the book condemned). But it's n…”

— Natalie Gontcharova, These Women Went Missing In 2019 & No One Is Talking About Them

“As women, we are born screaming, and I’m pretty sure we all die screaming (will check on this).”

— Rachel Handler, An Ode to Meryl Streep and Florence Pugh’s Catharsis Screams

“You are free. You are real. You are blameless. You are whole. You can want things. There is no moral to this story.”

— Heather Havrilesky, ‘I Don’t Trust My Friends!’

“You’ve been through so much, you’ve endured so much, time will allow me to heal, and soon this will be just another memory that made me the strong woman, athlete, and mother I am today.”

— Serena Williams, Serena Williams Poses Unretouched for Harper's BAZAAR

“As for Eleven, naturally, she's stolen the show, donning a number of neon-colored looks that feature suspenders, scrunchies, and pleated pants.”

— Lauren Rearick, You Don’t Need a Trip to Starcourt Mall to Re-create Eleven’s Outfits

“The concept of female "virginity" has a complicated history, having often been (incorrectly) linked to breaking the hymen. Bleeding after intercourse was thought to be proof of an unbroken hymen, and thus, proof that a woman had not had sex before. The reality, however, is that the state of your hym…”

— Cheryl Wischhover, How To Know If Your Hymen Is Broken

“No two people are exactly alike. Therefore, attempting to classify each unique individual’s mental health issues into neat categories just doesn’t work.”

— John Anderer, Study: Psychiatric Diagnoses Are 'Scientifically Meaningless' In Treating Mental Health

“Maybe the desire to make something beautiful is the piece of God that is inside each of us.”

— Mary Oliver, Devotions

“O’Hara’s sideline kiss wasn’t bold. It was your humdrum, everyday, post-win kiss, and that’s what makes it monumental.”

— Jill Gutowitz, This Is How You Come Out in 2019

“Sometimes the most common indication that someone is drowning is that they don’t look like they’re drowning.”

— Mario Vittone, Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning

“I came here to live a life, fully, all of it and I'll take it. I'll take all of it. I'll take the whole thing. Because I don't want to miss it. I don't want to have come all this distance to live a human life and miss the experience. I just wanna show up for the whole ride.”

— Elizabeth Gilbert, Oprah's Super Soul Conversations

“What do all the best movie chefs have in common? For one, they’re not just good at what they do.”

— Nikita Richardson, Which Movie Chef Makes the Best Food?

“There's something so grossly satisfying about using a pore strip. Looking at all the gunk from your skin almost feels therapeutic.”

— Chloe Hall, WTF Do Pore Strips Actually Do?

“On a clear day, looking out at the towers along the East River, you could practically see their tiny handprints smeared on the glass: the competition.”

— Jessica Pressler, A Class Riot Among the One Percent at Brooklyn’s Oldest Nursery School

“You’ve never seen someone go on a roller coaster come back with a blood-soaked face, so it’s not like you’re going to immediately deduce what happened and say, 'Oh, he hit a goose.'”

— Mike Toole, It Has Been Twenty Years Since Fabio Killed A Goose With His Face On A Roller Coaster