- Me
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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
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm still the little southern girl from the wrong side of the tracks who really didn't feel like she belonged.
- Face
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very determined. The straight-A girl. I wanted to succeed. Driven. Let's face it: very driven.
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm anything but a small-town girl. I have big, big dreams, and I plan on making them happen.
- Passion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very insecure growing up, and even though I'm not that girl anymore, I think that the passion, that not feeling pretty and being insecure, is where my soul came from. And from early childhood, I let it free onstage.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always tell people, 'Stop coming to me and telling what people are saying about me.' I don't care anymore. I always get the people that come to me and say, 'Girl, I just want to tell you... ' and I'm like, 'Nope.'
- Crazies
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes - and that's not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that you change into anyone you want to be.
- Black
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always get the 'goth girl' thing because I wear black. But I don't worship death.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a home girl. I like to stay home.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz parenting.'
- Happy Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was the original Cinderella girl, looking for the happy ending in the fairy story. But my fantasy prince never came.
- Pretty
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- Nov 07, 2020