Girlhood

As I said in this presence last year, how can you expect complete independence for Egypt when, as shown by the last census, 95 percent. of the people are still illiterate, and when the womanhood of Egypt and its girlhood is 99.3 percent illiterate? ❋ Unknown (1923)

Her manner in girlhood was not exactly either "meek" or "gentle;" except towards him, the only one who ever ruled her, and to whom she was, through life, the meekest and tenderest of women. ❋ Unknown (1897)

Even in these years of change, when she must go to the public school, she continues to represent all that is delightful in Japanese girlhood; for her special home-training keeps her reverent, innocent, dainty in all her little ways, and worthy to remain the pet of the gods. ❋ Lafcadio Hearn (1877)

The lover who wooed her in girlhood, – Percy, Duke of Northumberland, – saw her stand that trial: her condemnation he did not hear: he pleaded illness and withdrew, before the close of the proceedings; taking with him the one gleam of faint-hearted pity, to which perhaps, that struggling, despairing woman had looked for help. ❋ Unknown (1854)

To the haunting consciousness that David Stuart now knew the secret of her unwooed and unrequited love in girlhood, which already oppressed her, was superadded this blunt intimation of what others supposed possible of forwardness and sin, at the present hour. ❋ Unknown (1851)

It was David himself she had loved in girlhood; he had learned that yesterday; but what was girl's love? what strength could it have had against a dream of death and wrong? what strength to outlive him - and time - and change - and the wooing of another love to fill up the blank of horror his loss and his supposed suicide must have made? ❋ Unknown (1851)

She had loved him in girlhood; but that love seemed to her among things of the past. ❋ Unknown (1851)

a graduated series of holes pierced all round the ear in girlhood, and until they can obtain the silver or gold rings they desire, the holes are kept open with points of thorns or tiny pieces of wood. ❋ Unknown (1887)

BTW The only dressed I remember from my girlhood are the ones my mother made for me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Instructive, too, to learn that the precociously gifted O'Connor thought of herself as "ancient" while still a child; the great trauma of her girlhood was her father Edward's death, from lupus, when O'Connor was fifteen, an event perceived by the stricken girl as a sign of God's grace equivalent to "a bullet in the side." ❋ Oates, Joyce Carol (2009)

He adds “it originally signifies the labia which the Cairenes also entice Zambúr and which are cut off in girlhood.” ❋ Unknown (2006)

Oh, how they laughed and told stories on each other, Ida in particular, recalling their girlhood days, growing up with a batch of siblings -- one sister over in Hickory Hollow, who at the age of thirty-eight already had ten children and another on the way. ❋ Lewis, Beverly (2002)

The Middle-West community where she was born and had lived most of her girlhood was a tender memory to Janice. ❋ Helen Beecher Long (N/A)

It's the spirit wailing its destiny, the spirit driven hither, thither, lodging on the diminishing carpets – meagre footholds – shrunken shreds of all the vanishing universe – love, life, faith, husband, children, I know not what splendours and pageantries glimpsed in girlhood. ❋ Unknown (1921)

Shellington's mind recalled her girlhood days, in which Katherine had been an intimate part. ❋ Grace Miller White (1912)

Surely one of our duties to girlhood is to teach it the elemental truths of manhood. ❋ Unknown (1909)

The setting sun, the noise of frogs, the nocturnal insects beginning to pipe -- all in some way called her girlhood back to her, though there was little in her girlhood to give her pleasure. ❋ Hamlin Garland (1900)

They had been all in all to each other, and the days of her girlhood were the brightest of her life. ❋ Various (1899)

What in my girlhood was a teeming and attractive landscape spread out by the Omnipotent Hand to teach us of His goodness, has by His own direction, become a field for profound thought, where, through coming ages, will be taught lessons of loyalty, patriotism and sacrifice. ❋ Unknown (1889)

being [17] at [a taylor swift] concert is a [fundamental] moment of girlhood ❋ (2023)

Want to hang out and sit our phones [in silence] together? Ugh that is so girlhoodLet's get [dressed up] together and listen to [slut me out], for girlhood. ❋ (2023)

Last night she let me [eat out] her [girlhood]... it was [fantastic]. ❋ HandlebarManHandler (2020)

The [coed] finally gathered courage and ripped open the faded [box her] mother sent her after she'd moved to the Big Apple. It held most sacred [girlhood] shit, her's and that of departed same-gender ancestors: Barbie fashion plates, cleverly concealing in their epic template compartment a sad, unused contraceptive fossil. (But, the coed [mused], perhaps "The Sponge" qualified more as old school twenty-something shit.) Other artifacts she discovered made her long to have lived out her own meh surrounded-by-shit girlhood during colonial times, especially the gray-green potions and brittle, moldy, black bottled herbs of her witchy predecessors. Perhaps girlhood wasn't such shit after all. ❋ Savedbyfacebutmostlyface (2013)