Libba Bray Quotes About Opinions

Quotes about: Opinions

• Why do girls always feel like they have to apologize for giving an opinion or taking up space in the world? Have you ever noticed that?" Nicole asked. "You go on websites and some girl leaves a post and if it's longer than three sentences or she's expressing her thoughts about some topic, she usually ends with, 'Sorry for the rant' or 'That may be dumb, but that's what I think.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Sorry, Thinking

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

• No one asks how or what I am doing. They could not care less. We’re all looking glasses, we girls, existing only to reflect their images back to them as they’d like to be seen. Hollow vessels of girls to be rinsed of our own ambitions, wants, and opinions, just waiting to be filled with the cool, tepid water of gracious compliance. A fissure forms in the vessel. I’m cracking open.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Ambition, Glasses

  Libba Bray (2010). “A Great and Terrible Beauty”, p.192, Simon and Schuster

• There were few things worse than being ordinary, in Evie’s opinion. Ordinary was for suckers.

  Libba Bray

  Ordinary, Opinion, Sucker

• The ladies pass the timee with gossip and hearsay. This is what they have in place of freedom- gime and gossip. Their lives are small and careful. I do not wish to live this way. I should like to make my mark. To venture opinions that may not be polite or even correct but are mine nonetheless. If I am to be hanged for anything, I should like to feel that I go to the gallows on my own strength.

  Libba Bray

  Gossip, Wish, May

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