Peggy Orenstein Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Play, Parent

  Peggy Orenstein (2011). “Cinderella Ate My Daughter: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Girlie-Girl Culture”, p.6, Harper Collins

• I'm watching my own daughter grow up. I see this overt sexual culture coming at her like a Mack truck. She's in seventh grade.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Growing Up, Culture

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Agency, Talking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• One of the challenges is to create an equally positive, satisfying sense of femininity and feminine identity in a different way so that there are things you're saying yes to and satisfying that urge that your daughter has to be assert her girlness. The surface level of the culture, and really several inches into it, makes that very hard to do. I hate to put another thing on parents' plates. But the culture is very intentional in what it's telling your daughter and what it's telling you about the message of femininity. And if you're not intentional and conscious back, you lose.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Hate, Challenges

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