- Growing Up
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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
- Angry
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- Nov 07, 2020
Over the years, I've found that dealing with white people faux pas can be tricky. If I get upset, I could quickly be labeled the 'angry black girl.' But if I don't say anything or react too passively, I risk giving friends and acquaintances permission to continue crossing the line.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
My eyelashes are divas, so they will like a mascara brand one week or for a month, and then they'll just stop working for it. I go back and forth between Maybelline and Cover Girl, and then I carry around a primer, too.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
- Positive
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- Nov 07, 2020
With a growing number of one-parent families in the country, the Girl Scout troop can be an indispensable and powerful positive factor.
- Interview
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1976, I was invited to interview for the CEO position of the Girl Scouts of the U.S.A.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never had any question about the direction we were going in at the Girl Scouts. We shared our mission and research with all levels of leaders from the very beginning - a concept I created, using cups and saucers, called 'circular management.' Everyone was on a team; there were no superiors or subordinates. There was respect for all people.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I found out I got 'The Little Drummer Girl' and my BAFTA nomination in quick succession, and I just didn't expect it to be like that. I thought there would be a lot more time in between. It's been an overwhelming experience.
- Art Student
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd gone from being this art student messing about with music to this girl with a record deal, magazine front covers and all this hype. In many ways, it was everything I ever wanted, but when it happened all I felt was total, paralysing fear.
- Green
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- Nov 07, 2020
I got to live out my 11-year-old fantasies - I got to go on stage with Green Day. Billie Joe called my name from the stage. 'Dookie' was the first album I ever bought. I covered the whole of 'Nimrod' and he'd heard it. That was like the 11-year-old girl dreamed.
- Only
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- Nov 07, 2020
But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is the task of several months and it is a fact that a girl, either while rehearsing or actually playing, may be training for some character or feature in some future production not yet definitely fixed even in my own mind.
- Cool
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- Nov 07, 2020