“You become a woman the first time you fart in front of a boyfriend. The first time your heart breaks. The first time you break someone else’s heart. The first time someone you love dies. The first time you lie and make yourself look bad so a friend you love can look better. And less dramatic things…”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“There are lots of ‘firsts’ like this in life, little flashpoints here and there when you’re unknowingly becoming a woman.”— Amy Schumer, amazon.com
“As for you girls, you must risk everything for Freedom, and give everything for Passion, loving everything that your hearts and your bodies love. The only thing higher for a girl and more sacred for a young woman than her freedom and her passion should be her desire to make her life into poetry.”— Roman Payne, facebook.com
“When she transformed into a butterfly, the caterpillars spoke not of her beauty, but of her weirdness. They wanted her to change back into what she always had been. But she had wings.”— Dean Jackson, pinterest.com