“If we have a girl at home who has attained puberty, some one should come and ask for alliance. Otherwise the girl will have to remain a virgin only. But in a Brahmin’s house if there is a girl who has attained puberty the Brahmin will go from door to door seeking a bridegroom. This is the difference between the Aryan and the Dravidian customs.”

Nobel Peace Prize Winner Speech (October 10, 2014)

Ch. 5 http://books.google.com/books?id=94EEAAAAYAAJ&amp;q=%22achieve+and+attain+young+girls+plan+for+whom+they+will+achieve+and+attain%22&amp;pg=PA87#v=onepage <br class="br">Women and Economics (1898)

Variant: In life, there are only four kinds of girls:
The girl who played with fire.
The girl who opened Pandora's Box.
The girl who gave Adam the apple.
And the girl whose best friend stole her boyfriend.
Source: The Carrie Diaries

Interview, Los Angeles Times (1937)

Source: Fahrenheit 451

Introduction
The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause (1991)
Context: Women over fifty already form one of the largest groups in the population structure of the western world. As long as they like themselves, they will not be an oppressed minority. In order to like themselves they must reject trivialization by others of who and what they are. A grown woman should not have to masquerade as a girl in order to remain in the land of the living.

Source: The Elephant Vanishes

Source: One Fifth Avenue