- 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
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
About 10 years ago, I took some vocal lessons. I'll bet that helped. I got a tape of exercises that the girl gave me, which I don't do anymore, but they were good. And I don't smoke.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am fortunate: my parents told me the world was my oyster, when they could have said I wouldn't make it for a lot of reasons - rural, girl, small African country. So, no regrets.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
My great-grandmother was in one of the first girl bands, in the 1920s. Their outfits were mental: velvet bloomers with big ribbons and headpieces. They were brilliant.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sadly, people think a guy and a girl can't be friends without something romantic going on.
- Mom
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always wanted to be an actress, ever since I was a little girl. I've always played the mom and I play my sister as the daughter. I wanted to be an actress on television and movies instead of just around the house.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have always wanted to act ever since I was a little girl. I would put a blanket under my shirt and pretend that I was pregnant. Then, I would go through childbirth.
- Herself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a machista that tells his girl what she has to put on. I let her be herself.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to do business without advertising is like winking at a pretty girl through a pair of green goggles. You may know what you are doing, but no one else does.
- Collectively
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think it's different to be a black girl in England than it is to be a black girl from America. We all collectively share in a pain of displacement and not feeling like we quite belong in places.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's never that hard for me to imagine what it must feel like to be someone else, whether it's an American teenage girl or a Japanese octogenarian man.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Often, when people ask me what I read as a young girl, I lie. Or, I should say, I lie by omission. I tell them about my brilliant fourth-grade teacher, Miss Artis, who assigned us 'Johnny Tremain' and 'Where the Red Fern Grows' and 'Tuck Everlasting,' all books that made an impression on me. And people nod in approval.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was opening my first bank account, the person at the counter thought I was a girl.
- Imagination
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a little girl, my imagination was what helped me deal with some sort of negative elements in my childhood.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought, I hate the thought of a 12, 13 or 14 year-old girl seeing a picture of me and thinking she'll do what I did.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020