Girl Quotes

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Queen Victoria

Harriet Jacobs

Dodie Smith

Anne Brontë

Janis Ian

Joan Crawford

Maria Mitchell

When I think of a merry, happy, free young girl - and look at the ailing, aching state a young wife generally is doomed to - which you can't deny is the penalty of marriage.

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts.

A man is free to go up as high as he can reach up to; but I, with all my style and pep, can't get a man my equal because a girl is always judged by her mother.

Anzia Yezierska

Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.

There is something revolting about the way girls' minds so often jump to marriage long before they jump to love.

The symbol of the University is the iron statue outside the Rathskeller of a barefoot goose girl that every student kisses at graduation. The University is a Mecca to which students come with something less than perfect faith. It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known but to question it.

Jacob Bronowski

The drums of Africa still beat in my heart. They will not let me rest while there is a single Negro boy or girl without a chance to prove his worth.

Mary McLeod Bethune

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called.

The only way I can lose this election is if I'm caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.

When I'm not near the girl I love,
I love the girl I'm near.

Caviar is to dining what a sable coat is to a girl in evening dress.

Ludwig Bemelmans

My darling girl, Unfortunately this earth is not a fairy-land, but a struggle for life, perfectly natural and therefore extremely harsh. All the same, or precisely for this reason, it is happiness and comfort for us men to have a precious sweetheart - and I have the most precious, the dearest and best of all!

Many a man in love with a dimple makes the mistake of marrying the whole girl.

Stephen Leacock

If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of the men who deserve them.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

So this gentleman said a girl with brains ought to do something with them besides think.

We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.

When you have been just told that the girl you love is definitely betrothed to another, you begin to understand how Anarchists must feel when the bomb goes off too soon.

P. G. Wodehouse

I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import

I would as soon put a girl alone into a closet to meditate as give her only the society of her needle.

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,
Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.
The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;
They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,
And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?
Who's sorry for a gnat.. or girl?

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

A long time ago, when all the grandfathers and grandmothers of today were little boys and little girls or very small babies, or perhaps not even born, Pa and Ma and Mary and Laura and Baby Carrie left their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin.

Laura Ingalls Wilder

People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.