“No woman on earth doesn’t give a fuck—no woman is that cool—she’s just hidden her fire. Likely, it’s burning her up.”— Glennon Doyle Melton, amazon.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
“The female doesn't want a rich man or a handsome man or even a poet, she wants a man who understands her eyes if she gets sad, and points to his chest and say : "Here is your home country.”— Nizar Qabbani, middleeasternpoetry.tumblr.com
“If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.”— J. D. Salinger, amazon.com
“The truth is solo travel isn’t just something you do when you can’t find anyone else to come along. It’s an incredibly rewarding and enlightening experience in its own right. You will learn about resources you never knew you had, and discover amazing things. You may even make some big life decisions…”— Stephanie Yoder, thoughtcatalog.com
“Women want to be seen as younger but get offended when you call them girls.”— T.J Miller, twitter.com
“We live in a world where there is such a clear definition of what a girl should be that it takes almost no effort at all to completely hate ourselves.”— Jennifer Elisabeth, amazon.com
“You don't have to be pretty. You don't owe prettiness to anyone. Not to your boyfriend/spouse/partner, not to your co-workers, especially not to random men on the street. You don't owe it to your mother, you don't owe it to your children, you don't owe it to civilization in general. Prettiness is no…”— Erin McKean, dressaday.com
“Her heart was wild but I didn't want to catch it, I wanted to run with it, to set mine free.”— Atticus, instagram.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
“She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart.”— Johnny Depp, deppimpact.com
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn't beaut…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, instagram.com
“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.”— Lori Ziganto, thoughtcatalog.com
“But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.”— Miriam Toews, thoughtcatalog.com
“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”— Sally Klempton, thoughtcatalog.com
“[She is] a woman so strong she burns heaven and drenches hell.”— John Green, Miles 'Pudge' Halter, amazon.com
“I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com