#girls

The Obama administration now has regulations that tells them that they can no longer promote marriage to these young girls. They can no longer promote marriage as a way of avoiding poverty and bad choices that they make in their life. They can no longer even teach abstinence education. They have to be neutral with respect to how people behave. ↗

— Rick Santorum

#administration #avoiding #bad #bad choices #behave

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent. ↗

— Antonella Gambotto-Burke

#boys #center #centre #conquest #femininity

I just don't want to be around people who don't hate everything in their life right now. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#life

I want to read so I can read the Koran read the signs in the street know the number of the bus I'm supposed to take when I one day leave this house. ↗

— Eve Ensler

#illiteracy #oppression #women #women-s-rights #life

Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me. ↗

— Heather Brewer

#humor #humor

You don’t know what a trial it is to be —like me. I've got to keep my face like steel in the street to keep men from winking at me. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#curse #pretty-girls #rosalind-connage #steel #trial

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#experience #insane #spice #spice girls

I feel there should have been some recognition of the Spice Girls at this year's 25th anniversary. We flew the flag for Britain around the globe in the 1990s and we achieved a hell of a lot. ↗

— Melanie Chisholm

#anniversary #around #been #britain #feel

Dancers are kept in a perpetual state of pre-puberty, and for young girls in particular, that type of pressure breeds insecurities. ↗

— Mia Wasikowska

#dancers #insecurities #kept #particular #perpetual

I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#always #case #child #could #felt