Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 3: “Miss Batterson and Benton”, p. 80
as quoted in Wonder Woman: Bondage and Feminism in the Marston/Peter comics, 1941-1948, pp. 64-65 by Noah Berlatsky.
The Emotions of Normal People (1928)
Randall Jarrell book Pictures from an Institution
Source: Pictures from an Institution (1954) [novel], Chapter 3: “Miss Batterson and Benton”, p. 80
Harry Chapin (1942–1981) American musician
Why Do Little Girls?
Song lyrics, Living Room Suite (1978)
“The demons were scary, but girls - Well, girls are really terrifying”
Darren Shan book Lord Loss
Source: Lord Loss
“If all the girls attending [the Yale prom] were laid end to end, I wouldn't be at all surprised.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
Our Mrs Parker (1934)
Source: While Rome Burns
Context: And there was that wholesale libel on a Yale prom. If all the girls attending it were laid end to end, Mrs Parker said, she wouldn't be at all surprised.
“To the world,
You may be just another girl.
But to me,
Baby, you are the world.”
Brad Paisley (1972) American country music singer
The World, written by Brad Paisley, Kelley Lovelace, and Lee Thomas Miller
Song lyrics, Time Well Wasted (2005)
Pink (singer) (1979) American singer-songwriter
Stupid Girls, written by Pink, Billy Mann and Nikey Olovson & Robin Lynch
Song lyrics, I'm Not Dead (2006)
“I have a twenty-month-old baby [girl], [and] a sixteen-year-old boy— same maturity level.”
Gloria Estefan (1957) Cuban-American singer-songwriter, actress and divorciada
The Evolution Tour: Live in Miami
2007, 2008