Peggy Orenstein famous quotes

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But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Fall #Role Models #Female
And isn't that, at it's core, what the princess fantasy is about for all of us? "Princess" is how we tell little girls that they are special, precious. "Princess" is the wish that we could protect them from pain, that they would never know sorrow, that they will live happily ever after ensconces in lace and innocence.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Happiness #Girl #Pain
I never expected, when I had a daughter, that one of my most important jobs would be to protect her childhood from becoming a marketers' land grab.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Daughter #Jobs #Land
The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Creativity #Challenges #Challenge Yourself
Effectively, it makes the greasepaint permanent, blurring the lines not only between public and private but also between the authentic and contrived self. If all the world was once a stage, it has now become a reality TV show: we mere players are not just aware of the camera; we mug for it.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Player #Reality #Self
American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl cultureâ€™s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girlsâ€™ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Girl #Play #Parent
There is only one princess in the Disney tales, one girl who gets to be exalted. Princesses may confide in a sympathetic mouse or teacup, but they do not have girlfriends. God forbid Snow White should give Sleeping Beauty a little support. Let's review: princesses avoid female bonding. Their goals are to be saved by a prince, get married, and be taken care of the rest of their lives.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Girl #Princess #Taken
Maybe I wanted children, maybe I didn't, but I wanted the decision to be a choice, not a mandate. Last time I checked, childlessness was only supposed to be a condition of career advancement for nuns.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Children #Careers #Decision
The notion is called wabi-sabi life, like the cherry blossom, it is beautiful because of its impermanence, not in spite of it, more exquisite for the inevitability of loss.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Beautiful #Loss #Cherries
It's not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow, and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girl's identity to appearance.
-- Peggy Orenstein

#Girl #Rainbow #Identity

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