Being A Girl Quotes

• Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.

  Anne Frank

  Girl, Son, Boys

  "The Dolly Dialogues". Book by Anthony Hope, 1893.

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• I enjoy being a girl.

  Paloma Faith

  Girl, Enjoy

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• You think that being a girl is degrading, but secretly, you'd love to know what it's like, wouldn't you?

  Charlotte Gainsbourg

  Girl, Thinking, Degrading

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Fighting, Boys

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• You may try — but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you, and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

  George Eliot

  Girl, Men, Imagination

  "Daniel Deronda".

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• Unfortunately, modeling takes you with no transition from being a girl to being a business woman

  Karolina Kurkova

  Girl, Transition, Business Woman

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  Being a woman is a terribly difficult task, since it consists principally in dealing with men.

  Joseph Conrad

  Funny, Hilarious, Strong Women

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• A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

  Coco Chanel

  Beauty, Girl, Strong Women

  "The Gospel According to Coco Chanel : Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman". Book by Karen Karbo, 2009.

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• Girls are trained to say, ‘I wrote this, but it’s probably really stupid.’ Well, no, you wouldn’t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, ‘I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.’ Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don’t go, ‘Thank you’, you go, ‘No, you’re insane.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Education, Attitude

  "Lena Dunham: 'People called me fat and hideous, and I lived" by Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. January 11, 2014.

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• Better to be strong than pretty and useless.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Inspirational, Strength, Being Strong

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

  Mae West

  Girl, Women, Gone

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• Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves, of course, each other. If girls dressed for boys, they'd just walk around naked at all times.

  Betsey Johnson

  Funny, Girl, Fashion

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• She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

  Harper Lee

  Girl, Thinking, Skills

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill A Mockingbird”, p.96, Random House

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• "Girly" can be limiting if you're told it's the only option. I don't think the solution is to get rid of the girly stuff or decide it's oppressive and get mad at a singer or book for not ACCURATELY REPRESENTING ALL WOMEN. There just needs to be more options for girls who don't identify with the girly aesthetic, and can broaden the idea of what being a girl means. Similarly, there needs to be more of that stuff that can be aesthetically girly, but feminist in the actual message.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Girl, Book, Mean

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• I love dressing up. It's the best part of being a girl, I think.

  Emma Roberts

  Girl, Thinking, Dressing Up

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• I've always found that one of the biggest benefits of being a girl is that most people refuse to take you seriously. While boys must be constantly monitored and are always the first suspects when anything goes wrong, everyone expects girls to do what they're told. It may seem a little insulting at first, but low expectations can be a blessing in disuise. If you're smart, you can use people's foolishness to your own advantage. It's amazing what you can get away with when no one bothers watching.

  Kirsten Miller

  Girl, Smart, Blessing

  Kirsten Miller (2007). “Kiki Strike: Inside the Shadow City”, Bloomsbury USA Childrens

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• Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots cause it's okay to be a boy. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading cause you think being a girl is degrading

  Madonna Ciccone

  Girl, Independent, Cutting

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• We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Jobs, Animal

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan

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• I think the most enduring lesson I was taught through my experiences of being a Girl Scout was that I was a member of a larger community. I out-grew my uniforms and badges years ago, but the memories of visiting nursing homes or organizing Earth Day tree plantings or my summers camping with girls from all different backgrounds will stay with me always.

  Natalie Merchant

  Girl, Summer, Memories

  "Girls Scouts' 100th Anniversary a Time to Reflect", abcnews.go.com. March 12, 2012.

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• I couldn't imagine being a girl. The bullshit routine they had to go through just to get out the door consumed half of their lives.

  Jamie McGuire

  Girl, Doors, Bullshit

  Jamie McGuire (2013). “Walking Disaster: A Novel”, p.58, Simon and Schuster

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• Recently, I wrote that feminism was 'finding a way of being a girl that doesn't hurt' a way for girls and women to re-negotiate our understanding of the world so that we can become a full and equal part of it rather than just a means of decorating it; to move towards a place where the mere act of being a girl isn't used against us as both a threat and an obligation. Through feminism, I have found a peace of sorts from the sense that my femaleness required a constant apology so that I might be given permission to pass through these narrow corridors.

  Clementine Ford

  Girl, Hurt, Women

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• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Boys, Phones

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• I always feel that there are two choices for women. Either be totally confident about your non-size-zero body and say, 'I love what I look like and this is who I am,' or be the person who is obsessed with diet and exercise and keeping toned. What feels more realistic to me is that some days I wake up and think I love how I look. On other days I say, 'If I had real self-control, I would be 10 pounds lighter.' That contradiction is, to me, what being a girl actually feels like.

  Lena Dunham

  Girl, Zero, Real

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• It's hard being a girl. There are a lot of body image issues that come up and I think the best thing we can do for our kids is lead by example.

  Cheryl Hines

  Inspiring, Girl, Kids

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• The fun part of being a girl is that there are little beauty things you can do to make yourself feel special.

  Jennifer Love Hewitt

  Girl, Fun, Special

  "Jennifer Love Hewitt ‘Maxim’ Interview Reminds Us She’s Still Vajazzling" by Ellie Krupnick, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 7, 2012.

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