- 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
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was such a lack of modern, recognizable role models for a young girl in the 1950s. I mean, 'Leave It to Beaver' didn't speak to me. That's why I latched on to music.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I loved when my boyfriends would call me their Amazon girl.
- Brave
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got tired of books where the boy is a bit thick and the girl's very clever. Why does it have to such an opposition? Why can't they be like the girls and boys that I know personally, who are equally funny and equally cross? Who get things equally wrong and are equally brave? And make the same mistakes?
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's great to be able to do shows like 'Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door,' which I think is entirely too long of a title.
- Nov 07, 2020
Every time you play a bad girl or guy in a movie, you really come from a place of pain.
- Men
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- Nov 07, 2020
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I remember my dreams when I was a junior soloist. 'Oh, I hope I don't end here,' I thought. 'I want to do the ballerina in 'Scotch Symphony.' I don't want to be the little Scotch girl.' And I actually went beyond my wildest dreams. I worked with Balanchine. I had ballets choreographed for me.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was always my dream, to do a leading role on Broadway. It's what I went to college to do, in hopes of one day someone taking a chance on me and saying, 'You know what? You're going to be our girl.'
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
My mother was my first and most important influence. When I was a little girl, she would take me shopping for pigments that flattered dark skin tones, mixing and playing until she'd created her ideal shade.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
When the first record came out, I'd go down to radio stations pretty much every day to get the record played, and I would walk in and they'd tell us how much they loved the record, but they weren't sure how much they could play it because they were already playing a girl.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you have girl children, they torture you! If at any moment of the day I ever think I'm remotely cool at all, which is hardly ever, I have two daughters who make sure that never happens. They say, 'Mom, you didn't really wear that?' And I say, 'Yes, and pretty much everyone saw it.'
- Comparable
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- Nov 07, 2020
Can anyone seriously contend that whether a 14-year-old boy, who thinks he is a girl, gets to use the girls' bathroom is a civil rights issue comparable to whether African-Americans get the right to vote?
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
Many fans were surprised when they learned that the little girl in drama 'Stairway To Heaven' was me.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020