Peggy Orenstein Quotes About Parents

Quotes about: Parents

• Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Girl, Baby, Kids

  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

• It's particularly important as parents in our conversations with our daughters and our sons to consider ideas intimate justice when we talk about and set them going on their early formative experience.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Son, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

• 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

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