I AM AN EMOTIONAL CREATURE The secret life of girls around the world
By Eve Ensler
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GIRL FACT Your left lung is smaller than your right lung to make room for your heart.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS: Epigraph: Girl Fact: Lung and Heart Foreward-Carol Gilligan Introduction I. How To Be a Girl in 2010 Let Me In What don't you like about being a girl Girl Fact: 3 Adults You Can Trust Bad Boys What I Wish I Could Say To My Mother Girl Fact: Abstinence It's Not a Baby, It's a Maybe What's a Good Girl Girl Fact: Cairo/FGM Don't Would You Rather I Stephanied Girl Fact: Sports Moving Towards the Hoop Sophie et Apolline or Why French Girls Smoke Things I Heard About Sex I Dance II. I Build it with Stone Girl Fact: Losing an Arm hunger blog The Joke About My Nose Would You Rather II Girl Fact: Slapped by Partners Dear Rihanna Girl Fact: Victims of Sex Trafficking I Have 35 Minutes Girl Facts: Child Labor and Barbie's Past
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Free Barbie Sky Sky Sky The Wall Girl Fact: Child Soldiers A Teenage Girls Guide to Surviving Sex Slavery III. Refuser Girl Fact: Bullet Proof Vests What do you like about being a girl Asking the question Whould You Rather III Things I Like about My Body My Short Skirt Things That Give Us Pleasure Girl Fact: Less Than a Dollar a Day 5 Cows and a Calf I Am An Emotional Creature I Dance Epilogue
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INTRODUCTION Dear Emotional Creature, You know who you are. I wrote this book because I believe in you. I believe in your authenticity, your uniqueness, your intensity, your wildness. I love the way you dye your hair purple, or hike up your short skirt, or blare your music while you lip sync every single memorized lyric. I love your restlessness and your hunger. You are one of our greatest natural resources. You possess a necessary agency and energy that if unleashed could transform, inspire and heal the world. I know we make you feel stupid, as if being a teenager meant you were temporarily deranged. We have become accustomed to muting you, judging you, discounting you, asking you, sometimes even forcing you to betray what you see and know and feel. You scare us. You remind us of what we have been forced to shut down or abandon in ourselves in order to fit in. You ask us by your beings to question, to wake up, to reperceive. Sometimes I think we tell you we are protecting you when really we are protecting ourselves from our own feelings of self-betrayal and loss. Everyone seems to have a certain way they want you to be-your mother, father, teachers, religious leaders, politicians, boyfriends, fashion gurus, celebrities, girlfriends. In researching this book I came upon a very

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