Girlism Quotes & Sayings

Great is the advantage of patience. — John Tillotson

He didn't want to go and look. But at the same time, a part of him wanted to look more than anything. — Patrick Ness

Really good comedic roles for women are far and between, with the exception of 'Bridesmaids,' where everyone said it broke down so many doors for women - and it did. I would like to do something like that. I think it would be really great! — Sara Paxton

Yes," he thought; "he is a doctor, he must know his own state and that his days are counted; and the knowledge is more than he can bear. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Naomi Wolf dares to explode the myth of 'victim feminism' and pleads for allowing women to be as full of good and bad desires as men, as avid for sexual fulfilment and power as men, but held back by the twin myths of good-girlism and sentimental sisterhood. Though she is perhaps too sanguine about women quickly overcoming their fear of power, Wolf fills me with hope because I see her analysis as having shattered the false categories that imprisoned my generation. Women do not have to agree about everything to join in alliance with each other to promote female power. Women do not have to cast out their inner bad girl to assert their right to power. Women do not have to cast out their sexuality to be 'good sisters'. — Erica Jong

All we were taught of geography was that the world had once been made up of seven continents and several countries, but a third world war demolished all but North America, the continent with the most advanced technology. — Lauren DeStefano

Please!" yelled Loki. "I am not being noble! — Joanne Harris

I did J.E.S.T. here when I was with the First — William Christie

There's nothing as safe as ignorance or as dangerous. — Rex Stout

The people in ships, however, took an equally singular view of England. Not only did it appear to them to be an island, and a very small island, but it was a shrinking island in which people were imprisoned. — Virginia Woolf

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime. — Richard Carlson

The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general. — John Charles Polanyi

Readers transform a library from a mausoleum into many theaters. — Mason Cooley