Quotes for All
When I was a teenager in the ’80s, I was the only girl in the guitar shop. Now if you walk into a music store, it’s mostly teenage girls. It’s great! It’s an expansion of possibilities for young women, finding a way to tools even if they aren’t directly handed those tools by adults. Ani … Read more
I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing ‘chick’ music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It’s part of the cultural dynamic, … Read more
Media mystifications should not obfuscate a simple, perceivable fact; Black teenage girls do not create poverty by having babies. Quite the contrary, they have babies at such a young age precisely because they are poor–because they do not have the opportunity to acquire an education, because meaningful, well-paying jobs and creative forms of recreation are … Read more
An adolescent is somebody who is in between things. A teenager is somebody who’s kind of permanently there. And so living with them through the various teenage hopes and sorrows and joys was curiously enough a maturing experience for me. Andrew Greeley
Playing normal is hard; especially playing normal that’s not you. The biggest challenge in playing Alicia is trying to make a teenage girl seem fully formed and not the quintessential moody teenager with a quippy, sassy line here and there. Alycia Debnam Carey
Teenage girls read in packs. It’s true today, and it was true when I was a teen growing up in a small town in northeast Oklahoma. Ally Carter
I suppose a lot of teenage girls feel invisible sometimes, like they just disappear. Well, that’s me—Cammie the Chameleon. But I’m luckier than most because, at my school, that’s considered cool. I go to a school for spies. Ally Carter
Don’t be afraid of failure. That’s not an easy lesson for teenagers – especially teenage girls – to learn. Our society sends us a lot of messages that imply we’re supposed to be ashamed when we fall short. But I think we should be throwing each other failure parties! Reshma Saujani
I think a huge part is how we’re socialized growing up to see our value and worth as being tied into a relationship and how our culture teaches us a distorted sense of romantic love – can’t live without you, can’t breathe without you, I’ll die without you. As teenage girls we believe that level … Read more