Girl Quotes - Page 8

• We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. And it's not going to feel particularly good for girls as the big marker of adulthood.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Sex, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

  Peggy Orenstein

  Writing, Saying Yes, Lows

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• 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

  Agency, Talking, Parent

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Sex, Boys, Encounters

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to girls. That model doesn't let you say "I like it at second base, maybe I'll stay here."

  Peggy Orenstein

  Sex, Years, Feel Good

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Integrity, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• The term "rock" has, unfortunately, become appropriated by four-year-old girls and accountants. An accountant does something amazingly well on the stock exchange and his buddies high-five him: He's a rock star! A four-year-old girl learned to ride a bicycle: She's a rock star!

  Ian Astbury

  Stars, Rocks, Years

  "Ian Astbury on the Death of the Rock Star". Interview With Mick Stingley, www.esquire.com. December 27, 2013.

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• I know from an early age that I'm very comfortable in front of people. When I was a young girl, I'd love giving book reports.

  Patti Smith

  Book, People, Giving

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• I am rough around the edges, and I am not a polished girl.

  Erin Wasson

  Curly Hair, Rough, Polished

  Source: www.elle.com

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• A girl I fall in love with will not have been like I was. I would like the girl who's had serious boyfriends, with maybe a wild phase where she had a couple one-night stands and that was that. Not the one who went for it like I did.

  Stephen Dorff

  Falling In Love, Couple, Night

  Source: www.elle.com

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• All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

  Reem Acra

  Age, Young, Older Women

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

  Meryl Streep

  School, Thinking, Talking

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.

  Meryl Streep

  Character, Boys, Interesting

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, Beer, Weekend

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.

  Seth Rogen

  Mom, Lying, Mean

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams and Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

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• I remember seeing Extreme play with [Debra] Winger and Cinderella. Gary Cherone was wearing purple velvet overalls with no shirt and saddle oxfords.Afterward, I went home and told my mom, "I need to find saddle oxfords." And she said, "Like little girls wear?" Naturally, I couldn't find them in my size, so I went to a shoemaker and had him make me a pair. I wore them for a while, but they didn't seem as cool on me, because when your foot is size 12, they sort of look like clown shoes.

  Patrick Wilson

  Mom, Home, Feet

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow.

  Taryn Manning

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to help, you know, create sympathy for them to invade Poland. You know, there'd be movies where there would be some German girl living in Poland who's raped by the Polish or something.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Book, Focus

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

  Simon Baker

  Surfing, Female, Would Be

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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• If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone else can be a U.S. senator.

  Amy Klobuchar

  Police, President, Clinton

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I'm very proud that I was a Goldwater Girl. And then my political beliefs changed over time.

  Hillary Clinton

  Political, Proud, Belief

  Source: www.npr.org

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• The swimsuit and jeans look is my favorite. It was a big part of my introduction to the world as an artist. It was so cool to see girls wearing swimsuits with their jeans during that time.

  Ciara

  Artist, Jeans, Swimsuits

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

  Vanna White

  Want, Can Do, I Can

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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