- Nov 07, 2020
Girl Quotes
Reflections on identity, from childhood on.
This set of girl quotes includes a candid admission of feeling awkward and anxious in social settings, alongside a simple description of small-town roots. One entry recalls a childhood memory of performing where a parent once sat in the audience. Related reflections continue in our Girl Power quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- College Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was younger, I was in love with everything about the British Isles, from British folklore to Celtic music. That was always where my passions were as a young girl, and so I studied folklore as a college student in England and Ireland.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd had no particular interest in the Southwest at all as a young girl, and I was completely surprised that the desert stole my heart to the extent it did.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
John will never send a boy or girl in a uniform anywhere in the world because of our need and greed for oil.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
If not for my mom, I wouldn't be a writer today. When I was a little girl, I rarely saw her without a book in her hand.
- Out
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was so dorky up until I was about 14 or 15 and started to get a little bit cooler, but I was a socks and sandals girl. I would wear big frilly socks with sandals and all the kids would tease me.
- Mirror
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can remember back to being 5 and looking in the mirror, feeling like a girl and wanting that. But growing up in Rochester, there were limited resources. I'd never met a trans person before.
- Childhood
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- Nov 07, 2020
The first 'Polly and the Pirates' is about a prim and proper girl who gets kidnapped out of her comfy boarding school by a bunch of pirates that think she's the daughter of their long lost queen. In the course of the adventure, she discovers she has a natural penchant for swashbuckling, despite her sheltered childhood.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
When people think girl adventurers, they tend to think of a spunky, plucky tom-boy with a chip on her shoulder. I'm not saying that this makes for a dull character, but I think other types of adventurous girls exist. It's easy to fall into well-established tropes, believing that the tropes of a genre define the genre itself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were trying to impress a girl, I wouldn't get all super dressed because I would look like I was trying too hard. Instead, I would probably wear what I normally would.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember watching the Tony Awards as a young girl, thinking I would never get that far but, in my heart, wanting so badly to perform on Broadway and defy the expectations of my small town.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the girl who will show up in jeans no matter what - but the jeans can get fancier and fancier.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish somebody would have told me, 'Don't try too hard,' because when I was younger I wanted to try really hard. I wanted to please everybody and be this perfect, polite little girl.
- Dating
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- Nov 07, 2020