Girls on the Verge Quotes

“There's no way to win. You're a monster if you get an abortion, a slut if you had sex, a moron if you decide to keep the baby.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“Dudes don’t have any scripts for how to fail. With women, there’s no expectation we’ll succeed so we know how to try again.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“Thirty minutes feels like forever when you're standing in a hot alley with abortion pills under your tongue.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“It's easy to think that people forget about you when they walk away: like you never mattered at all, that you never shared a history. But of course that's not true.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“Your girlfriends are the most important people you'll ever have in your life. You keep hold of them.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“Dudes don't have any scripts for how to fail. With women, there's expectation we'll succeed so we know how to try again. Dudes ghost on you or get revenge”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“I look like I've been through a battle and lived to talk about it.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“No woman can call herself free who does not own and control her body. No woman can call herself free until she can choose consciously whether she will or will not be a mother.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge

“I'll tell you about the first dick I ever touched. It belonged to a boy named Hayden. We went out freshman year." Annabelle sits on a pink spring horse, her sneakers flat on the ground.
"Oh my gosh! Freshman year?" Bea can't believe it.
"Hey! No judging. We used to make out in the little woods behind his house. He'd been not-so-subtly directing my hand toward his, you know, stuff, and one day, I was like, fine."
"What did you do?>" Bea asks.
"I didn't know what to do," Annabelle says, "so I put it back where I found it.”
― Sharon Biggs Waller, Girls on the Verge