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“Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”
“Girls get screwed.Not that kind of screwed, what I mean is, they're always on the short end of things.The way things work, how guys feel great, but make girls feelcheap for doingexactly what they b...”
“Try patting them on the back or shoulder and telling them everything is going to be fine. Lots of times when girls cry, they don't want you to fix the problem, they just want to be consoled.”
“How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and they are blest.”
“Better to be strong than pretty and useless.”
“Girls like guys to be a challenge. It gives them some mold to fit in how they act. Like a mom. What would a mom do if she couldn't fuss over you and make you clean your room? And what would you do ...”
“Like most girls, her imagination carried her just as far as the altar and no further.”
“Us girls deserve more than one song. We deserve more than one pledge of solidarity. We deserve better songs than any boy will ever write about us.”
“A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls were more complicated than boys. Girls communicated in a language that only they understood. And Jos...”
“Girls at war opt for a quieter cruelty than fistfights and drive-by shootings. Girls circumvent the corporeal and go straight for each other's souls. The bleeding is harder to stanch.”
“...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.”
“Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry.”
“Maybe we can help. Where are you from? I've never seen you around here before. And, how did you get that cut? Where are you staying? He shook his head and giggled. Are you the police? You ask a lot...”
“Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl who didn't need a man; be that girl wh...”
“All a woman actually wants is to feel special.”
“What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.”
“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.”
“- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightshirt. This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them fr...”
“Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so very definite in their tastes and opinions, in ther loves and ideas. Zora woke up this morning ho...”
“I saw the movie," he said. "I know what it's about. Listen to this. When girls get to be about twelve or so"he leaned toward us"their tits bleed.”
