“ Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy. Roman Payne
“ All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could. Alice Walker
“ It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience. Roxane Gay
“ It will take you long, lonely years, but one day you will grow tired. Tired of boys, tired of contempt, and then where will you be? All these girls around you with their stories and their lives, the s… Sarah McCarry
“ If being premenstrual is “innocence,” does that make those of us with periods guilty? And this really gets to the heart of the matter: These concerns aren't about lost innocence; they're about lost gi… Jessica Valenti
