Girl Quotes

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Queen Victoria

Louisa May Alcott

Martin Bormann

Jacob Bronowski

Anne Brontë

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lynne Cheney

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.

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

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

Ludwig Bemelmans

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.

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

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 learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Louisa May Alcott

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

Stephen Leacock

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

Expecting to be able to get rid of the competitive drive, first of all, flies in the face of human nature — and little girls certainly have this drive, as much as little boys do, or at least the little girls I have observed in my immediate family have it.

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.

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 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.

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.

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

A modern girls' school, equipped as scores are now equipped throughout the country, was of course not to be found in 1858, when I first became a school boarder, or in 1867, when I ceased to be one.

Mary Augusta Ward

I think we will have a boy baby and he will be born on the 20th of August. Everyone else has a girl baby and at times I don't believe I should mind having a little Phyllis Dawn but Dearest wants a boy and I do.

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!

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

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

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