I still feel like teenage girls are not taken seriously by the culture at large, especially not their darker or more complicated feelings—of aggression, desire, ambition. To me, these feelings and drives are so fundamental to girlhood and to womanhood, and I love exploring them. And trying to give voice to them as best I can. I think women are always trying to figure out their own adolescence. We never stop.

~ Megan Abbott

Megan Abbott Adolescence Feminism Teenage Girls

Why do women waste their time trying to convince their insecure family members and girlfriends that they are beautiful? Self esteem is not a beauty cream that you can rub all over them and see instant results. Instead, convince them they are not stupid. Every intelligent woman knows outward beauty is a nip, tuck, chemical peel or diet away. If you don't like it, fix it.

~ Shannon L. Alder

Shannon L. Alder Awakening Be Proud Beauty Beauty Cream Communicator Compatable Confidence Cry Babies Devotion Different Kind Of Beauty Eye Of The Beholder Fix It Fix Yourself Good Parenting Hypocrisy Idiot Inner Beauty Inner Worth Is Important Intelligent Kindness Laughing Loud Laughing Really Loud Loyalty Ouward Beauty Parenting Pathetic Personality Pride Raising Girls Reactor Religious Beliefs Respecting Yourself Sadness Self Love Self Pity Seriously Set Example Shallow Women Stupid Women Stupidity Sympathy Teenage Girls Traditional Values Trust Values Vane Vanity Very Sad Whining Wisdom

Someone's boyfriend died in a rock-climbing accident in Switzerland: everyone gathered around her, on fire with tragedy. Their dramatic shows up support underpinned with jealousy- bad luck was rare enough to be glamorous.

~ Emma Cline

Emma Cline Boarding School Drama Girls Grief Teenage Girls

For a while she cried silently until she tired herself out and the overwhelming feeling of sleepiness overcame her. The room around her was fairly silent, although she wasn’t the only one crying herself to sleep. It was quite common at places like this to hear cries in the dark. There were so many saddened and lonesome souls around her. It was usually at night when they were reminded of just how sad and lonely they actually were.

~ Jason Medina

Jason Medina Adolescent Unit Amanda Cried Cries Cry Crying Dark Hospital Ward Jason Medina Kings Park Kings Park Psychiatric Center Kings Park State Hospital Kppc Kpsh Loneliness Lonely Sad Sadness Sleep Sleepy Teenage Girls

Lexie was the leader of the bobble heads. They were a group of girls best described as perfect, plastic, fake and hollow headed, hence the name bobble heads.

~ Ashley Jeffery

Ashley Jeffery High School Teenage Girls Trouble Young Adult

He would know a number of grown women in his life who did not possess even a small portion of the grace his middle sister owned at the age of fourteen.

~ James Carlos Blake

James Carlos Blake Grace Sister Teenage Girls

She is a loner, too bright for the slutty girls and too savage for the bright girls, haunting the edges and corners of the school like a sullen disillusioned ghost

~ Eleanor Catton

Eleanor Catton Loners Outsiders School Teenage Girls Teenagers

You see it in all animals - the female of the species is more deadly than the male.''Except humans.

~ Mindy Mcginnis

Mindy Mcginnis Girls Rape Culture Sexism Teenage Girls

The dream of all men is to meet little sluts who are innocent but ready for all forms of depravity—which is what, more or less, all teenage girls are.

~ Michel Houellebecq

Michel Houellebecq Depravity Innocence Slut Teenage Girls