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Peggy Orenstein quotes: Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills.

Simpson Rowe was quick to say that only perpetrators are responsible for assault, but assertiveness and self-advocacy are crucial defensive skills.

Peggy Orenstein quotes: Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.

Encouraging girls to explore sexuality within mutually caring, emotionally connected relationships is one thing; insisting on it is another.

Peggy Orenstein quotes: Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.

Identify, I've learned, can be sliced many ways and there is gain with every loss.

Peggy Orenstein quotes: I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

I'd believed I could keep out the tales and the toys but had failed on both counts.

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

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

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

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

Peggy Orenstein quotes: I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual agency.

Peggy Orenstein quotes: Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

Leaving something unnamed makes it quite literally unspeakable: a void, an absence, a taboo.

Peggy Orenstein quotes: Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

Saying "yes" [to sexual activity] is a pretty low baseline for sexual experience and I wanted to write about what was happening to girls after "yes."

Peggy Orenstein quotes: Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

Children as young as twelve to eighteen months can recognize brands, it went on, and are "strongly influenced" by advertising and marketing. Yikes!

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

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

Peggy Orenstein quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

The point of creativity is to express and challenge yourself, to make meaning, to embrace your life.

Peggy Orenstein quotes: As long as adults still avoid open discussion on sexuality, teens will inevitably seek information on today's electronic street corner.

As long as adults still avoid open discussion on sexuality, teens will inevitably seek information on today's electronic street corner.