“Don't hold back. For anyone. The farther you go, the prouder I'll be.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Ming (voice), Sandra Oh, imdb.com
“Nothing stays the same forever.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“I'm sorry I'm not perfect, sorry I'm not good enough, and sorry I'll never be like you.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“What was once a blessing became an... inconvenience.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Ming (voice), Sandra Oh, imdb.com
“You are a woman now. And your body is starting to change. It's nothing to be embarrassed about.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Ming (voice), Sandra Oh, imdb.com
“We've all got an inner beast. We've all got a messy, loud, weird part of ourselves hidden away. And a lot of us never let it out.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“I am my own person. But that doesn't mean doing whatever I want. Like most adults, I have responsibilities.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“I like boys. I like loud music. I like gyrating! I’m 13, deal with it!”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“People have all kinds of sides to them, Mei, and some sides are messy.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Jin Lee (voice), Orion Lee, imdb.com
“I’ve been obsessed with my mom’s approval my whole life. I couldn’t risk losing it. But losing you guys is worse.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“I’m finally figuring out who I am. But I’m scared it will take me away from you.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“Honoring your parents sounds great, but if you take it too far, well, you might forget to honor yourself.”— Julia Cho, Domee Shi, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“My whole life I’ve been perfect little Mei Mei. But maybe I like this new me.”— Domee Shi, Julia Cho, Sarah Streicher, Meilin 'Mei' Lee (voice), Rosalie Chiang, imdb.com
“It’s always been us. We’re always trying to bare our souls as much as we can. It’s just that as we grow older and have life experience, with love and loss, we are able to relinquish more and inhabit our own skin.”— Buck Meek, vulture.com
“'Girlhood' often feels like a baffled attempt to comprehend something impossible: How did a person given to climaxing joyously in the bathtub end up trapped in a 'twilit mode of passivity'?”— Katy Waldman, newyorker.com
“Untangling the lessons of girlhood from the cultural works that teach them to us is impossible; they are often our most committed teachers.”— Sophie Gilbert, theatlantic.com
“My body was just bigger. It shouldn’t have made my life that different.”— Marquisele Mercedes, humanparts.medium.com
“Whatever softness I had was reserved for animals, whose suffering I could alleviate in small ways.”— Bethany Groff Dorau, nytimes.com
“I’ve never had a garden. We never grew up like that. I don’t particularly mind, but I think there is something in growing up in concrete and not understanding putting fingers in soil, growing things, foundation.”— Michaela Coel, vulture.com