“Girls, your body is a temple. Don't let ANYONE tell you how it should look or what you should do with it.”— Quiara Alegría Hudes, twitter.com
“This isn’t about what’s fair. It’s about what we can afford. And we can’t afford this. We can’t afford to pretend it’s fine that everything we do or think or wear or say yes or no to is somehow wrong. We can’t afford to act like it’s okay that ‘Girls can do anything!’ got translated somewhere along…”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“No, wait: fat is beautiful. No, wait: thin is beautiful, too, as long as you don’t work for it. No, wait: All women are beautiful! As though we are toddlers who must be given exactly equal shares of princess dust, or we’ll throw a tantrum.”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“What’s a girl to do when a bunch of dudes have just told her, in front of an audience, that she’s wrong about what it’s like to be herself?”— Kristi Coulter, thoughtcatalog.com
“...one day there will be girls and women whose name will no longer just signify the opposite of the male but something in their own right, something which does not make one think of any supplement or limit but only of life and existence: the female human being.”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“Women, in whom life abides and dwells more immediately, more fruitfully and more trustingly, are bound to have ripened more thoroughly, become more human human beings, than a man, who is all too light and has not been pulled down beneath the surface of life by the weight of a bodily fruit and who, i…”— Rainer Maria Rilke, amazon.com
“I want all the single girls out there to know I don’t consider this an achievement.”— Meghan McCain, youtube.com
“All girls should have a poem written for them even if we have to turn this God-damn world upside down to do it.”— Richard Brautigan, amazon.com
“But in any movie where there’s a white witch and a dark witch, that’s just another way to pin women against each other.”— Yema Rose, vulture.com
“Don’t give yourself to someone who makes you feel any less than the beautiful and rare soul of a woman that you are.”— Natalia Vela, thoughtcatalog.com
“She was a ghost of a girl, hauntingly beautiful, wonderfully lost—breaking hearts and crying holy water tears.”— Michael Faudet, amazon.com
“Here’s to the girls with sly eyes wild hair and intoxicating thoughts. You will fall in love and find your handprints wrapped around her arms just trying to hold on.”— Michelle K., michellekpoems.tumblr.com
“Golf and women are a lot alike. You know you are not going to wind up with anything but grief, but you can't resist the impulse.”— Jackie Gleason, books.google.com
“Women are supposed to seduce other women, not men, with their clothes.”— Jean Touitou, theguardian.com
“Women, if the soul of the nation is to be saved, I believe that you must become its soul.”— Coretta Scott King, en.wikiquote.org
“There is a special place in hell for women who don't help other women”— Madeleine Albright, goodreads.com
“Please go easy on Lindsay Lohan. Being a child actor turned sex symbol twists the brain in ways you can’t comprehend.”— Rose McGowan, newyorker.com