Girls Day Quotation

I love being tall ... There really wasn't any teasing (when she was growing up). I guess they were smart enough not to tease the big kid. But I loved being different. I like being tall. And as for the size 17 shoe, I just go online, really. I can't really go in the store. But online there are more options, more colors, different styles. It's not bad.

No matter how hard other tall women practice, they aren't going to have the physical gifts that Brittney has. She is a unique force in the game.

She's the most dominant force in women's college basketball ... She changes each game she plays, but I don't think she's changed the game simply because no other 6-8 woman can do what she does.

Early in her freshman year I asked her if there was any downside to being a 6-8 women. Her answer was only 'that I'll never fit into a cute little sports car.' She's a remarkable kid.

She seems to be a very confident young woman who is quite comfortable in her own skin. Unlike many tall women who are uncomfortable with their height, Brittney seems to embrace it.

I think Brittney has done an incredible job staying 'normal' with all the attention she has gotten.

The stuff she's had to read about, the stuff she's had to hear, the stuff people say about her, the stuff people write about her, it's got to stop.

Social media is the worst thing that's happened. … This (8Griner) is someone's child. This is a human being, people.

It’s bizarre because my mother is a feminist, believes women should be educated and independent. But she still thinks that female genital mutilation (FGM) is part of what it is to be a woman, she did her best to legitimize the pain. I was told it was a normal thing that would help me to grow up.

So the parents would be liable to criminal prosecution, as would the people who book the flights, as would the people that ensure the transition of that process.

The people that commit the crimes are people that perform the act and the people that arrange for that to take place.

Combat negative attitudes, which impede the full realization of the child’s right to be heard, through public campaigns, including opinion leaders and the media, to change widespread customary conceptions of the child.

Ensure appropriate conditions for supporting and encouraging children to express their views, and make sure that these views are given due weight, by regulations and arrangements which are firmly anchored in laws and institutional codes and are regularly evaluated with regard to their effectiveness.

Establish independent human rights institutions, such as children’s ombudsmen or commissioners with a broad children’s rights mandate.

I've gotten to know many of you during the course of some very difficult weeks, and your courage and love for each other and your communities shines through every single day.

When a child opens fire on another child, there is a hole in that child's heart that government can't fill. Only communities and parents and teachers and clergy can fill that hole.

That's an equivalent of a Newtown every four months. That's why these proposals deserve a vote in Congress, they deserve a vote.

Last year there were 443 murders with a firearm on the streets of this city. Sixty-five of those victims were 18 and under.

I do it for the joy it brings, because I'm a joyful girl. Because the world owes us nothing, we owe each other the world.

You may admire a girl's curves on the first introduction, but the second meeting shows up new angles.

For her to handle it as well as she does, I just love the kid. … I sit and I think, 'Why? Why do people do that this day and time?