“The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.”
Source: The Wee Free Men
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Source: The Philosopher's Apprentice (2008), Chapter 8 (p. 171)

Why Do Little Girls?
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)

On her primary motivation to write Children of Blood and Bone in “Tomi Adeyemi: ‘We need a black girl fantasy book every month’” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/mar/10/tomi-adeyemi-interview-children-of-blood-and-bone-sarah-hughes in The Guardian (2018 Mar 10)

Why Do Little Girls?
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
Unpublished memoir Computer Connections, on the prevalence of BASIC in programming education; quoted in a eulogy http://www2.gol.com/users/joewein/eulogy.htm delivered by Tom Rolander
Source: The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks
“We were about to give up and call it a night when somebody threw the girl off the bridge.”
Source: Darker Than Amber