All girls over age 14 remove pubic hair. The only touching is to remove hair. That's grim.

- Peggy Orenstein

Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down th…

- Peggy Orenstein

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 repeat…

- Peggy Orenstein

Marketing to girls constantly presents a hypersexualized idea of girls; they're expected to appear sexy but be cut off from their sexuality.

- Peggy Orenstein

I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when…

- Peggy Orenstein

We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex.

- Peggy Orenstein

Displaying yourself as sexy doesn't do anything to increase sexual self-knowledge or pleasure.

- Peggy Orenstein

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

Sexualization is the performance of sexuality, the performance of sexiness. Girls are super good at that now.

- Peggy Orenstein