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“First and foremost, girls are survivors. We are trained to expect the world to be toxic to us and make the best of a bad situation by developing the skills to survive it. No one ever says the skills won’t be toxic. No one ever mentions how we are cruel sometimes and we don’t choose it.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“Children aren’t born ugly either. They learn to hate themselves from society’s narrow-minded ideas about how they must feel unsatisfied in their own skin.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“This is what youth is. The sheer belief that you will be able to keep every promise you made to someone else. That you will be able to love someone into a forever when you do not even understand what forever means.”
― Nikita Gill, Fierce Fairytales: Poems and Stories to Stir Your Soul

“Sexuality includes, but is about more than, just having sex. It also includes: our capacity for sexual feelings; the kinds of people we’re attracted to and how; and how we identify ourselves and how others categorize us.”
― Meg-John Barker, Sexuality: A Graphic Guide