- Different Kinds
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- 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
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
All through college, I had frequently been the only girl in a science class - which wasn't such a bad deal.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a typical Delhi girl. Professional parents, nuclear family. My father was in the navy. I've spent my whole life in government accommodation, and it's been lovely.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't think I was going to change the world for women; I just did what I did. My big thing was that I didn't change who and what I was to become successful. I will not be told what to do; I'm a real independent girl.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been obsessed with words since I was a little girl, and I am fortunate that each week as resident word expert on 'Countdown' I am ideally placed to quiz my guests in dictionary corner about the words and phrases they use.
- Harriet
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a girl, I sat awestruck at the feet of Harriet Ne, author of 'Tales of Molokai'. It was she who used to say, 'I myself have seen it,' after telling a particularly hair-raising ghost story - a phrase that I borrowed for one of my titles.
- Best
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could say diamonds are a girl's best friend, and that never changes. But the taste for art did change.
- Bone Marrow
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- Nov 07, 2020
After one hundred days of confinement following a bone marrow transplant, I rejoiced in taking short walks to a nearby park as I was writing 'Girl in Hyacinth Blue.' The uncertainty of my survival made every blade of grass gorgeous in its green intensity, lifting itself up, doing its part to make the world beautiful.
- Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up I never imagined a little girl from a border town could one day become a governor. But this is America. In America algo es possible.
- Growing Up
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- Nov 07, 2020
Growing up, I never imagined a girl from a border town could one day become a governor.
- Partner
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- Nov 07, 2020
My writing partner, Joni Lefkowitz, and I love studying girl friendships in particular because they seem defined by a combination of codependent intimacy and subtle, constant passive-aggressiveness.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top - and never fell off.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never a girl who thought about getting married. Being in a relationship wasn't my priority.
- Kind
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- Nov 07, 2020