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And now Rocky is begging me to watch Dora the Explorer with him. I understand that millions of kids love Dora and have learned to read or whatever from her show. But I wouldn't mind if Dora fell off a cliff and took her little pals with her
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Meg Cabot (Forever Princess (The Princess Diaries, #10))
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Cerise ran through the course in her mind. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.” She paused, not sure if she’d said it correctly. “Three miles, stream on the right, Mozer Lake, Tinybear, Bigbear, Miller’s Path.”
“Thank you, Dora. Put the sword back into Backpack and we’ll go.” He nodded at the river.
“Who is Dora?”
“You are. Dora the Explorer. Vamanos. Put the sword away or I will take it from you.
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Ilona Andrews (Bayou Moon (The Edge, #2))
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cos' your hands were exploring more than Dora. I wouldn't have minded but Dora had a map and a compass so she knows where she was going. You on the other hand were like a tourist in the center of London. Lost as a fucking fiddle.
-Mia Hastings
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Makeandoffer (Illegal My Ass)
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(Just so you know, I practice Spanish watching Dora the Explorer and playing GTA, so I know how to say backpack, whore, and weed. I hope you’re impressed.)
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Camilla Monk (Spotless (Spotless, #1))
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Trust me,” I say. “I’ve seen things that make your porn look like Dora the Explorer.
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Grady Hendrix (The Final Girl Support Group)
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I warned you,” Herobrine growled, in a terrifying tone. “It was funny at first, but you took it too far. I’m not Dora The Explorer. Do you see a talking backpack? Swiper no swiping doesn’t work in this world.
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The Cowardly Helper (Worst Job Ever! [An Unofficial Minecraft Book] (Diary of Herobrine's Cowardly Helper Book 1))
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The aunties can make Game of Thrones look like Dora the Explorer, but that’s not the point.
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Tanya Huff (The Future Falls (Gale Women, #3))
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Yes. Let’s be honest. I’m a privileged white woman who left her kids in a $30,000 minivan watching Dora the Explorer to go in for a Starbucks. Is there any clearer picture of privilege than that? But no matter what color you are, no matter how much money you have, you don’t deserve to be harassed for making a rational parenting choice.”
It’s funny, but in all the time that had passed, I had never thought about what was happening in quite those terms—as harassment. When a person intimidates, insults, verbally abuses, or demeans a woman on the street, in the bedroom, at the office, in the classroom, it’s harassment. When a woman is intimidated or insulted or abused because of the way she dresses or her sexual habits or her outspokenness on social media, she is experiencing harassment. But when a mother is intimidated, insulted, abused, or demeaned because of the way she is mothering, we call it concern or, at worst, nosiness. A mother, apparently, cannot be harassed. A mother can only be corrected.
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Kim Brooks (Small Animals: Parenthood in the Age of Fear)
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Yo Momma So Fat……Even Dora Can’t Explore Her” 1.
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THE CLOWN FACTORY (Yo Mama Jokes Encyclopedia.....The Worlds Funniest Yo Momma Jokes!: Try Not to Cry Your Eyes Out!)
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What was zat, Miss Penelope?” she asked. “You are on zee phone with Dora zee Explorer and Boots zee Monkey? You say Boots needs new boots? Very well, dah-ling! Pencil him in before my six o’clock appointment with SpongeBob!
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Rachel Renée Russell (Dork Diaries 6: Tales from a Not-So-Happy Heartbreaker)
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A landmark 2007 report by the American Psychological Association (APA) found girls being sexualized--or treated as "objects of sexual desire... as things rather than as people with legitimate sexual feelings of their own"--in virtually every form of media, including movies, television, music videos and lyrics, video games and the Internet, advertising, cartoons, clothing, and toys. Even Dora the Explorer, once a cute, square-bodied child, got a makeover to make her look more svelte and "hot.
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Nancy Jo Sales (American Girls: Social Media and the Secret Lives of Teenagers)
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Sonia smiles at me when I tuck her under the sheets. As usual, there’s no bedtime story, no exploring Dora, no Pooh and Piglet, no Peter Rabbit and his misadventures in Mr. McGregor’s lettuce patch. It’s frightening what she’s grown to accept as normal.
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Christina Dalcher (Vox)
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Who is setting the bar for what you call accessibility? The definition of “accessible” is “easy to understand,” and so much of the fiction I love is just… not that. It is complex and rich and sometimes puzzling, and it stays with me precisely because I can’t quite wrap my head around it. Sometimes it is lucid and approachable on the surface, and other times the language is congested in order to fire up strong sensations. Accessibility is such a strange, sad measure of the writing I love. Dora the Explorer is accessible. The Unconsoled is not. But I have never been deliberately difficult, if that’s what you’re getting at. That has no appeal to me. I’ve always tried to write the fiction that compels me the most — I have to feel passionate, engaged, and nearly desperate if I’m going to get anything done. When I’m working on material that is conceptual or abstract or in some way difficult, I strive for clarity, transparency, a vivid attack.
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Ben Marcus
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As for Meg, she looked like Meg. Her red high-tops and yellow leggings clashed epically with her new unicorn T-shirt, which she seemed determined to wear until it fell to pieces. She had applied adhesive bandages across her cheekbones, like warriors or footballers might do. Perhaps she thought they made her look “commando,” despite the fact that the bandages were decorated with pictures of Dora the Explorer.
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Rick Riordan (The Tyrant's Tomb (The Trials of Apollo, #4))
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But it was the final group, which focused on Bob the Builder, Batman, or Dora the Explorer as the example of someone who worked hard, who stayed on task nearly 60 percent of the time. The more the child was distanced from his inner self, the longer he or she persisted. “It’s easier to give advice to a friend than to yourself” is an adage that most of us have heard, and it largely holds. Should we quit a job or end a relationship? We’re often too close to the issue to have any sort of objectivity. We wrestle over the decision, with our inner voice offering a mix of justifications and rationalizations. Yet, if we see the same situation with a friend or acquaintance, the answer comes nearly instantly. We tell our friend that she needs to drop that guy without hesitation. This phenomenon doesn’t just hold true with giving advice, but also in helping us persist and navigate internal discomfort. It can be easily influenced simply by changing our grammar.
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Steve Magness (Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness)
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My accomplice clearly had unresolved issues with March, because he was encouraging him to satisfy his own mother. (Just so you know, I practice Spanish watching Dora the Explorer and playing GTA, so I know how to say backpack, whore, and weed. I hope you’re impressed.)
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Camilla Monk (Spotless (Spotless, #1))
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David smiled tightly. In the last three days, he’d replaced missing bricks in the chimney, fixed a dripping bathroom faucet, installed a ceiling fan in the den, painted the garage, removed a stump from the backyard, took apart and cleaned and reassembled the lawn mower, put up Dora the Explorer wallpaper in Anna’s room, replaced a sputtering garbage disposal, changed the oil in the Escalade, and reread a dog-eared copy of Ice Station Zebra. So yeah. He’d stayed busy around the house. David rocked heel to toe. “Oh, you know. The usual.” “Right.” Jeff tossed back the rest of the beer. “Well, you know, it’ll pick up.
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Victor Gischler (Stay)
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Apparently they didn’t realize that in middle school, once you’ve been labeled a “dork,” you’re stuck with that label. My dorkiness would come in the form of a hot-pink bicycle plastered with Dora the Explorer stickers. Definitely not a stellar way to debut my sixth-grade year.
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Taryn Souders (How to (Almost) Ruin Your Summer)
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If I never left it for the rest of the year, I wouldn’t get to explore all of it. Not that I was Dora the g@dd*mn Explorer looking for adventure.
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Hayden Hall (Crossing Blades (Arctic Titans of Northwood U, #1))
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Talk about EVIL! MacKenzie makes the Wicked Witch of the West look like Dora the Explorer.
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Rachel Renée Russell (Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl (Dork Diaries, #2))
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Talk about EVIL! MacKenzie makes the Wicked Witch of the West look like Dora the Explorer. I’m just saying . . .!
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Rachel Renée Russell (Tales from a Not-So-Popular Party Girl (Dork Diaries, #2))
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Ma’am cut her hair short in what Jacob called a Dora the Explorer hairstyle.
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Karen McQuestion (The Moonlight Child)
Susan Gray (Unique Spanish Recipes Inspired by Dora The Explorer: Enjoy this Easy & Delicious Recipe)
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It's not everyday I get to play Dora the Explorer before homeroom
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Josh Roberts
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Gone, Miss It’s Givin’ You Hiding Something. You wanted to see what was in this room, so go be on your Dora the Explorer shit,” he stated casually and smirked.
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Wynta Tyme (Chosen by a Vampire)
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Church is basically Dora the Explorer for adults, lots of repetition, plenty of good, solid messages.
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Loki Renard (Father (Blood Brotherhood))
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Why the fuck you in there playing Dora the Explorer looking for me?
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Tatiana Timmons (The Streets & The Pulpit: Loving In My World Is Never Easy (Zoo Boyz: Street Chaos Book 2))