Put simply: you’re damned if you do; you’re damned if you don’t. Try too hard, and you’re disgusting; don’t try at all, and you’re invisible.
Anne Helen Petersen • Too Fat, Too Slutty, Too Loud: The Rise and Reign of the Unruly Woman
For a woman being old just means not being young, and all the youth had been worked out of her before it had really even set in.
Marilynne Robinson • Lila (Oprah's Book Club): A Novel
“Ela já está uma mulher, que corpão”, as pessoas falam sobre adolescentes de catorze, quinze anos sem o menor constrangimento.