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“The things we watch, listen to, read, wear, write, and share dictate in large part how we internalize and project what we're worth.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“Popular culture isn’t an innocuous force; we don’t go through adolescence—watching scenes and reading books and hearing jokes and listening to all kinds of dialogue—while wearing an invisible force field that bounces bad ideas away. We learn an awful lot of what we know from the stories we encounter.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“Re-vision—the act of looking back, of seeing with fresh eyes, of entering an old text from a new critical direction—is for us more than a chapter in cultural history: It is an act of survival. Until we can understand the assumptions in which we are drenched we cannot know ourselves. Adrienne Rich (1972)”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“Misogyny will always occupy any space it’s given.”
― Sophie Gilbert, On Womanhood: Bodies, Literature, Choice

“Part of the reason why so many abusive men had been enabled and protected for so long was that the stories they told were seen to have extraordinary”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“What girls want in movies is portrayed as being much more complicated”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“In the early aughts, in any direction you looked, popular culture was constantly promoting and celebrating an ‘empowered’ vision of sexuality that was wholeheartedly informed by male desire and male pleasure.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“A media psychologist told me that people tend to deal with stress and trauma in one of two ways—either by anesthetizing themselves with comforting fluff or by leaning fully toward the thing that scares them.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“To say that straight men are heterosexual is only to say that they engage in sex (fucking) exclusively with (or upon or to) the other sex”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“(Lena) Dunham can’t singlehandedly reshape the visual and imaginative realm of sex altogether, but she can lead us to wonder what we actually find sexy, and what’s just been deeply imprinted on us by overexposure. The cultural landscape we inhabit shapes more than just fantasy. It also contours the way we think, write, dream, create.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“In the early aughts, in any direction you looked, popular culture was constantly promoting and celebrating an ‘empowered’ vision of s*xuality that was wholeheartedly informed by male desire and male pleasure.”
― Sophie Gilbert

“Research suggests, she writes, “that women are socialized to perceive themselves through this gaze, and to internalize female objectification.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“Disgust is one of the most powerful human responses and one of the least studied. The history of misogyny is defined by expressions of repulsion toward women and their bodies—pervasive ideas across culture”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“For millennial girls”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“I've always wondered why people diminish girlhood as somehow cosseted or twee, when the reality of coming-of-age as a young woman is so raw, filled with emotional violence and literal blood. Do girls not suffer enough to be taken seriously?”
― Sophie Gilbert

“Las cosas que vemos, las cosas que escuchamos, leemos, vestimos, escribimos y compartimos dictan en gran medida cómo interiorizamos y proyectamos lo que valemos.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Chica contra chica: Cómo la cultura pop enfrentó a una generación de mujeres contra sí mismas

“What was obvious to me was that power”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“Cada uma de nós carrega décadas de condicionamento interno informado pelas criações com as quais crescemos. E então precisamos ampliar nossa concepção de como se parece o poder para as mulheres.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“The things we watch, listen to, read, wear, write, and share
dictate in large part how we internalize and project what
we’re worth.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves

“...the understanding, as Susan J Douglas has put it, that it is precisely through women’s calculated deployment of their faces, bodies, attire, and sexuality that they gain and enjoy true power.”
― Sophie Gilbert, Girl on Girl: How Pop Culture Turned a Generation of Women Against Themselves