"Parents wrongly assume that their daughters live in a world similar to the one they experienced as adolescents. They are dead wrong. Their daughters live in a media-drenched world floded with junk values. As girls turn from their parents, they turn to this world for guidance about how to be an adult."

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Source : Mary Pipher (2005). “Reviving Ophelia”, p.56, Penguin

Mary Pipher

#Girl Quotes #Daughter Quotes #Media Quotes

“I'm sorry you're so unhappy as a person that you feel the need to say things that you would never understand [to a paparazzi]”
“When I'm filming something, I quite forget that it's all still got to come together and be edited. I'm so engrossed in trying to do the best I can on a day to day basis that I forget that people will see it and judge it.”
“We are in the entertaining business, they want to get autographs, they want to take something home, whether it's a signed hat or, you know, program or whatever it might be.”
“I have a medical history folder that's a lot thicker than most.”
“Beauty is only bearable when you're happy.”
“CHILDHOOD: The rapidly shrinking interval between infancy and first arrest on a drug or weapons charge.”
“. . . word-sniffing . . . is an addiction, like glue -- or snow -- sniffing in a somewhat less destructive way, physically if not economically. . . . As an addict, I am almost guiltily interested in converts to my own illness . . .”
“I love long walks on the beach, big dicks and fried chicken.”

Source : "RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars (It Takes Two)". TV Series, m.imdb.com. October 22, 2012.

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