- Night
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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
- Ship
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was writing 'The Windup Girl' and 'Ship Breaker,' I was writing those simultaneously, so I was an unpublished writer, not really having that full sense that these books would go out in the world, that they would be successful, that there would be an audience and that there would be fans of those stories.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never an ambitious girl, or even a self-confident one. I never went in for beauty pageants or wore a stitch of make-up until I went to Los Angeles.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am trying to be the girl I didn't have. That's important to me. I have to be conscious of that. In this weird, dark, small, very intimate way, there's a girl out there who relies on me. And that's super important to me, and I don't want to let her down.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
- Being A Girl
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- Nov 07, 2020
I enjoy being a girl.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love girl power.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was never the girl in high school who had a boyfriend for years. My longest relationship has been 18 months. I've thought maybe I'm really superficial and unable to have a relationship. What I've found is that people are attracted by my independence, and then they try to squelch it.
- Lunch
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a glamorous girl.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
- Her
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did send a girl a plane ticket asking her for a visit, I guess that's quite romantic.
- Ale
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- Nov 07, 2020