Girl Quotes - Page 14

• I've been labelled as the 'big girl' and I've not got a problem with that

  Michelle McManus

  Big Girl, Problem, Bigs

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• Intimate justice touches on ideas of gender inequity, violence, bodily integrity, physical and mental health. I don't expect a 15-year-old girl to have that figured out; it's hard enough to have it figured out when you're 50.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Integrity, Years, Ideas

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Thinking about the world writ large, I am more optimistic than not that we will tackle our most pressing challenges, whether poverty or equality for women and girls or climate change; but I also know we'll only tackle them if people are really informed about the challenge and what's proven to work.

  Chelsea Clinton

  Optimistic, Thinking, People

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• I started making movies in my late 20s, that time in an artist's career that often sees artists just imitating things that he or she loves. I just wanted to be great like L'Age d'Or vintage Buñuel. I wanted to be Busby Berkeley, for crying out loud! I wanted to have chorus girls stomping their heels in my casting office. I wanted to be Erich Von Stroheim monogramming underwear for extras. So I started off my career doing that, and that was fun, but I realised I wasn't very good at it.

  Guy Maddin

  Fun, Artist, Vintage

  Source: thequietus.com

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• Fashion is also a form of art, and like every kind of art, it has its own way of expression. In other words, if a dress looks better on a thin girl, on a catwalk, during a very specific moment of time and space then it's represented as part of a "fashion Show". It is after all a "Show" and it has to be understood by people that it is a "show" and not real life.

  Sonia Rykiel

  Fashion, Art, Real

  Source: www.stilorama.com

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• More than anyone, I am aware of the preconceptions. I was a Spice Girl. I'm married to a footballer.

  Victoria Beckham

  Spices, Married, Footballer

  Interview with Kevin Sessums, www.marieclaire.com. October 6, 2010.

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• I don't know if it [Mary and Jane] is a do-over or wanting someone to have made certain entertainment for us that did not exist when we were that age, but we keep going back and doing it again. I have a 12-year-old girl now and I want to make things that will speak to her. Things that will that have lessons for her to take away.

  Deborah Kaplan

  Wanting Someone, Years, Age

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm not immune to the charms of the female form. And when I was 17 and I spent every spare minute surfing, most of the girls we hung out with would be topless.

  Simon Baker

  Surfing, Female, Would Be

  "Fabulous Baker Boy". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. August 05, 2008.

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• A girl playing rock and roll, it's saying I own my sexuality and I'm going to tell you what I'm going to do. And I think people just find that threatening.

  Joan Jett

  Thinking, Rocks, Rock And Roll

  "Joan Jett Rumbles Back with 'Sinner'". "Day to Day" with Noah Adams and Alex Chadwick, www.npr.org. July 26, 2006.

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• I talked to a junior in college, and she was fed up. She said, "I'm not doing other girls any favours by faking orgasms and not calling out guys when we're having unequal experiences."

  Peggy Orenstein

  College, Guy, Calling

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• While I completely disagree with the "purity" concept, it was the only place I saw fathers talking to girls about their expectations and attitudes to sex and expressing love and support. I didn't see liberal dads having similar conversations with their daughters.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Daughter, Sex, Attitude

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• We're afraid if girls find out sex is pleasurable they'll stop being gatekeepers, they'll go out and have sex.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Sex, Gatekeepers, Ifs

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• For years we've used the bases analogy - with intercourse being the "ultimate sex" even though that's probably not going to feel good to girls. That model doesn't let you say "I like it at second base, maybe I'll stay here."

  Peggy Orenstein

  Sex, Years, Feel Good

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• Some of my friends would lie to girls to get them, or do things that - you know, they would cheat on girls. I was just never in the realm of what, you know, what's instilled to me, you know? Yeah, I mean, my mom's a social worker, for God's sakes.

  Seth Rogen

  Mom, Lying, Mean

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• We continue to think of virginity as first intercourse. That ends up minimizing and marginalizing other things kids are engaged in, like oral sex. And it's not going to feel particularly good for girls as the big marker of adulthood.

  Peggy Orenstein

  Sex, Kids, Thinking

  Source: www.macleans.ca

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• All women at all ages do not feel their ages anymore. The young girl feels older, and the older woman feels younger.

  Reem Acra

  Age, Young, Older Women

  Source: www.elle.com

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• When I was in - at Vassar, and I came from a public high school in New Jersey, there was - that class still existed. I think it's pretty much gone, but there was a way of talking that the private school girls had that was different than the way I talked from New Jersey.

  Meryl Streep

  School, Thinking, Talking

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• Well, it has to do with very deep things, because it might be that imagining yourself as a girl is a diminishment. But it is something that when I made "The Devil Wears Prada" it was the first time in my life, 30 years of making movies, that a man came up and said I know how you felt. I know how you felt. I have a job like that. People understand.

  Meryl Streep

  Jobs, Men, Years

  "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. February 6, 2012.

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• There was a year straight where every weekend, I went to at least one bar mitzvah or bat mitzvah, and we would all go, and it was a lot of fun. We sneak some beer; we'd hang out; we would try to get with girls and not. And usually we'd just end up hanging out together alone.

  Seth Rogen

  Fun, Beer, Weekend

  "Seth Rogen, Not Such A Loser In Real Life". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 2, 2009.

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• Everybody thinks because of my character that I'm this wild girl and I am, I'm an actor, and I have that in me - but I'm actually very calm and mellow.

  Taryn Manning

  Character, Thinking, Actors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Oddly enough, most of the books written about the subject aren't very good because they just focus on the more hateful movies that they did very early, early on when they were trying to, you know, get Germany into the war, whether it be anti-Semitic movies like "Jud Suss," or "The Eternal Jew," or movies made against the Polish to help, you know, create sympathy for them to invade Poland. You know, there'd be movies where there would be some German girl living in Poland who's raped by the Polish or something.

  Quentin Tarantino

  War, Book, Focus

  "Pulp And Circumstance: Tarantino Rewrites History". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. August 27, 2009.

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• The first time The Runaways played in Britain, Joan Jett wore my bullet belt onstage. The Runaways were really the first all-girl band to really strut their stuff and say, "F**k you." "Cherry Bomb" was the best song for a girl band to sing. It was just outrageous at the time. There were American families sitting on the sofa watching television going, "F**k me." It was great fun.

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Song, Fun, Band

  Source: www.goldminemag.com

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• I can do whatever I want, but I'm a French girl. It goes with everything.

  Vanna White

  Want, Can Do, I Can

  Source: www.usmagazine.com

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• You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.

  Scott McClanahan

  Mom, Song, Dad

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• That's part of what I touch on in my [UN] speech - when assaults happen on women and girls in these fragile countries, in these places of crisis, there isn't the psychosocial support. There aren't counseling services. It's not in a lot of cultures to explicitly talk about things that maybe have happened to the body. So, repression of emotion, and shame, and guilt is something that really needs to be handled in humanitarian crises.

  Natalie Dormer

  Country, Support, Guilt

  Source: www.elle.com

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