„The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.“

— Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club

Source: Fight Club

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American novelist, essayist 1962

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— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958

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„He gets sex, she gets sex; if that is considered unequal, no wonder men are afraid of commitment.“

— Warren Farrell author, spokesperson, expert witness, political candidate 1943

Source: Why Men Are the Way They Are (1988), p. 240.

Men, Sex

„You ask what a nice girl will do? She won't give an inch, but she won't say no.“

— Martial, book Epigrammata

IV, 71.
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„She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part […]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.“

— Truman Capote, book In Cold Blood

Part 3
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„She committed suicide…
"Why?"
"She often told me, she was frightened of getting old."“

— Patrick Modiano, book Missing Person

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Suicide

„Slutkiss girls, won't you promise her smack?
Is she pretty on the inside?
Is she pretty from the back?
Slutkiss girls, won't you water her rack?
Is she pretty on the inside?
Is she pretty from the back?
Slutkiss girl, molasses, rot blackstrap
Is she rotten on the inside
Is she ugly, ugly from the back?“

— Courtney Love American punk singer-songwriter, musician, actress, and artist 1964

"Pretty on the Inside"
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Girl, Water

„A girl, if she has any pride, is so ashamed of having anything she wishes to say out of the hearing of her own family, she thinks it must be something so very wrong, that it is ten to one, if she have the opportunity of saying it, that she will not.
And yet she is spending her life, perhaps, in dreaming of accidental means of unrestrained communion.“

— Florence Nightingale English social reformer and statistician, and the founder of modern nursing 1820 - 1910

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„She said I was interested in everything and committed to nothing.“

— Gregory David Roberts, book Shantaram

Source: Shantaram

„Now, my mom always said two wrongs don't make a right. But she never said anything about four wrongs, and that always left me confused.“

— Hugh Laurie British actor, comedian, writer, musician and director 1959

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„She's the kind of girl who climbed the ladder of success wrong by wrong.“

— Mae West American actress and sex symbol 1893 - 1980

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Girl, Success

„she never showed girly weaknesses like cellulite or crushes. she never lingered on injustices committed against her.“

— Ann Brashares, book The Last Summer

Source: The Last Summer

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He committed suicide“

— Bob Dylan American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist 1941

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Boy, Suicide

„Constipation was one of the things she hated most in the world, on par with despicable men who commit domestic violence and narrow-minded religious fundamentalists.“

— Haruki Murakami, book 1Q84

Source: 1Q84

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Source: A Walk to Remember

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— Warren Farrell, book The Myth of Male Power

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„She is fine. She hates us both but it really didn't sound like anything else was wrong“

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Source: City of Fallen Angels

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— AnnaSophia Robb American actress, singer, and model 1993

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Love, People, Sport

„She's got style and she's got her own money
So she's not another honey you can quickly disarm
She's got the eyes that make you realize
She won't be hypnotized by your usual charm.
You've got your plan of attack
That won't attract the modern woman
When you're an old fashioned man
She understands the things you're doin'
She's a modern woman.“

— Billy Joel American singer-songwriter and pianist 1949

Modern Woman.
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Money, Fashion, Understanding

„…"We were the pair. One too afraid to feel anything lest she lose control of her ironclad hold on her emotions, and the other so hungry to feel anything that she´d risk her free will for one night of fun."…“

— Kim Harrison Pseudonym 1966

Source: Every Which Way But Dead

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„The girl is infectious human waste, and she's confused and afraid to commit to the wrong thing and so she won't commit to anything.“

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