Girls They Write Songs About Quotes

“But the point is that is takes real work for a woman to sustain the creation of something outside herself that is not a child. Real will, because we are always going to be tempted in a way men aren’t to wander off the road and find some place to get knocked up so we can relieve ourselves of the burden of trying to figure out what everything in life is really worth, and then, as a reward for this abdication of responsibility, get ourselves worshipped as if we’d climbed Mount Everest when all we’d done was let nature take its course.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“Rose and I did not become friends immediately, although I’d been aware of her before we met. She’d been writing for the Voice, for the New York Press, for Time Out. But never for the Times, I noticed with relief. I’d stare at her byline on the subway or in a bodega thinking Who is this girl doing my job? I’d sit on the subway reading her pieces, listening to the voice of a girl that was louder than ink and larger than column inches, I might have written at the time, if I had to review the sound Rose made. A girl unafraid to lose herself in a description of the physical pleasure the music gave her and unafraid of turning lethally bemused when the music failed her. The display, and the confidence it took to put it out there and keep it coming, was infuriating.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“To be a mother meant to die inside, constantly, so that everyone else could live. No thanks.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“The last thing I remember: nestling up close to him, as close as I could get, the front of my knees locked into the back of his, burying my face in his shoulder blades, thinking that his skin smelled like skies heavy with rain.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“He was an extremely intelligent boy-slash-man from a working- to middle-class family—from what, if he got drunk enough, he called trash—and those two biographical coordinates have always worked on me the way a handsome face never could. His weekly emails to the staff were small masterpieces chiseled out of wit, both anarchic and dry, and what I suspected was creeping intellectual boredom.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“Everyone has their own New York, and this was ours.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“A moving and thoughtful story of how desire and ambition change over time and how to make sense of the messiness of carving out a path and life”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About

“If you taught kindergarten, you would always know for sure that you were the adult in the room and that you were inarguably the person in charge.”
― Carlene Bauer, Girls They Write Songs About