#girl

The best change you can make is to hold up a mirror so that people can look into it and change themselves. That's the only way a person can be changed." By looking into yourself," Zia said. "Even if you have to look into a mirror that's outside yourself to do it." "And you know," Maida added. "That mirror can be a story you hear, or just someone else's eyes. Anything that reflects back so you can see yourself in it. ↗

— Charles de Lint

#crow-girls #change

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls. ↗

— Greg Mortenson

#educate #girls #change

Once you want something, everything changes. Now I want everything. I feel it so much that I am water, a river of want,pooled in the shape of a girl. ↗

— Ally Condie

#wanting #water #change

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They made us brave. They met us well. They changed us. It was in their nature to. ↗

— Ali Smith

#girl #meets #change

I sit on my duff, smoke cigarettes and watch TV. I'm not exactly a poster girl for healthy living. ↗

— Lexa Doig

#cigarettes #duff #exactly #girl #healthy

To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man! ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#different thing #girl #man #second #stepmother

We are going to change the way young people think about fitness. ↗

— Gheorghe Muresan

#exercise #fitness #gheorghe-muresan #girls-fitness #health

If you want to change a whole people, then you start with the girls. It stands to reason: they learn faster, and they pass on what they learn to their children. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#girl-power #change

you should change your Password" "not exactly a priority so I haven't got'round to it" "I'll do it for you"I offered. His arms gave me a squeeze and he grinned. "What'll you chose?" before I could stop my mouth from forming the words, I said "Shebitchfromhell666 ↗

— Kristen Ashley

#the-gamble #change

She put her tongue out and felt the raw edges of the torn silk. She looped her tongue around them and drew them into her teeth. Just a little bit, she thought, that's all I need to free my eyelids. She pulled the tasteless web between her teeth and ground, pulling her jaw down in a grimace - it felt as it she was eating the very skin off her face. But the silk over her eyelids shifted. ↗

— Stephen M. Irwin

#bound #captive #captured #courage #creepy