- Mother
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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
- Displease
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tried to be the perfect little girl. Always tried to have the perfect little manners. Never wanted to displease my parents.
- Nov 07, 2020
On my first movie, there were three women: the body-makeup girl, the hairdresser, and the secretary of the producer.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father was proud that people thought I was a good actress. I'm the only child. And daddy's girl.
- Car Accident
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in Kingston, Jamaica, as the youngest of four children and the only girl. My father died when I was only a year and a half. He was killed in a car accident when he was 26.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still get very emotional when a girl - 13 or 14 - comes up to me and says, 'Your videos really helped me.'
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
I recall an 18-year-old girl named Rachel in Zambia who was given a grant to start a business of her choosing. She decided to breed goats so she could sell the meat and the milk, and donate the kids to orphan children. She herself was an orphan, stepping into young adulthood with no resources, and it was her first opportunity to earn her own money.
- Ground
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am just a Flemish girl with her feet on the ground.
- Nov 07, 2020
I remember, as a young Catholic girl in high school, seeing 'The Exorcist,' and it scared the wits out of me.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were a family that made our Halloween costumes. Or, more accurately, my mother made them. She took no suggestions or advice. Halloween costumes were her territory. She was the brain behind my brother's winning girl costume, stuffing her own bra with newspapers for him to wear under a cashmere sweater and smearing red lipstick on his lips.
- Party
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never played politics, I was never a party girl, and I never slept with any of the producers.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Modeling is an incredible job for a girl if she approaches it with her head on her shoulders. You travel, you speak to people, and it opens your mind to different things.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
Deep down inside, I'm really a black girl stuck in a Mexican girl's body. But I'm also in touch with my inner white girl and my inner Asian girl. I feel like a little bit of everybody.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
Once, I was doing Bon Qui Qui in Miami, and this black girl was in the audience, and she yelled out, 'That's not funny!' which was really funny because she sounded exactly like the character I was playing.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember when I was a kid, I could never find anything positive about chubby girls. If a girl was pudgy in books, she wasn't okay. She couldn't be happy or make friends unless she lost weight.
- Harbors
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- Nov 07, 2020
God forbid you be an ugly girl, 'course too pretty is also your doom, 'cause everyone harbors a secret hatred for the prettiest girl in the room.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020