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He warned Mother not to flout God's Will by expecting too much of us. "Sending a girl to college is ...

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Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’...

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Bell hooksHomegrown: Engaged Cultural Criticism

Girls do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If girls dressed ...

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That's all YOU know,' said Digory. 'It's because you're a girl. Girls never want to know anything bu...

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C. S. LewisThe Magician's Nephew

... And what am I to do?""Well, that depends. Do you like the girl?""Like her? I don't know. How do ...

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Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.

Because', she said, 'your problems are not real problems. You're dating two beautiful girls at once....

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The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very d...

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Charles DickensDavid Copperfield

~Do you like him much?~I told you I like him a little. Where is the use of caring for him so very mu...

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A girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.

A girl should be two things: who and what she wants.

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Coco ChanelThe Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons from the World's Most Elegant Woman

Meggie dropped to her knees, scrambling frantically to collect the miniature clothes before more dam...

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For every girl I thought I was uncomplicated sex, it wasn't. Put it this way: if you can't see the c...

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The girl says "Oh uh-uh, wait a minute! Wait a minute! Just because I'm dressed this way does not ma...

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I have always tried to avoid talking to pretty girls, because pretty girls have a vicious effect on ...

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Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry.

What we ask is to be human individuals, however peculiar and unexpected. It is no good saying: "You ...

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Dorothy L. SayersAre Women Human? Astute and Witty Essays on the Role of Women in Society

At no point in history has a bright young girl with plenty of food and a good constitution perished ...

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Elizabeth GilbertThe Signature of All Things

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

Young girls are told you have to be the delicate princess. Hermione taught them that you can be the ...

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When at 15, my girlfriends started dropping out of their beloved sports teams, because they didn’t w...

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In my experience, boys are predictable. As soon as they think of something, they do it. Girls are sm...

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How did that go” [Butler] asked. “Your first lengthy conversation with a girl your own age.”“Fabulou...

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Girls mature faster than boys, cost more to raise, and statistics show that the old saw about girls ...

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Erma BombeckMotherhood: The Second Oldest Profession

no girl can permanently bolster up a lame-duck visitor, because these day it's every girl for hersel...

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Take off that darn fur coat!...Or maybe you'd like to have us open all the windows.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded gun on your coffee table- There's nothing wrong with them...

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It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, p...

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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...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that’s why...

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Harper LeeTo Kill a Mockingbird

There are three ways you can get along with a girl: one, shut up and listen to what she has to say; ...

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Even so, there were times I saw freshness and beauty. I could smell the air, and I really loved rock...

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It’s really difficult to talk about dead people, but it’s even harder to talk about dead young women...

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Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-...

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A crease found it's way onto Joss's forehead. Because he was certain that Sirus was wrong. Girls wer...

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Someday, my young friend, you'll find out that girls are actually people too. Just like you and me.

All the girls I had ever loved were mine. Each gave me what she alone had to give and to each I gave...

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Ah! What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!

I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about girls. Every time they d...

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Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap....Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: brea...

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Girls. Jesus Christ. They can drive you crazy. - Holden Caulfield

She was around ten minutes late, as a matter of fact. I didn't give a damn, though. All that crap th...

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Girls with their legs crossed, girls with their legs not crossed, girls with terrific legs, girls wi...

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J. D. SalingerCliffs Notes on Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

That's the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not much to look ...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

I think if you don't really like a girl, you shouldn't horse around with her at all, and if you do l...

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J. D. SalingerThe Catcher in the Rye

Fat’ is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to hurt her.I mean, is...

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I've got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed world, and it worries...

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Parvati positively beamed. Harry could tell that she was feeling guilty for having laughed at Hermio...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get revenge.

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

How can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

You should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes, "translating mad things girls...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Well, wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better than you?""Girl...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

You should have told her differently,' said Hermione, still with that maddeningly patient air. 'You ...

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That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divina...

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J. K. RowlingHarry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

The advantages of natural folly in a beautiful girl have been already set forth by the capital pen o...

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I frequently observe that one pretty face would be followed by five and thirty frights.

It was easier for girls. They could say This hurts, or I don’t like how this feels, and have the com...

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I think if you went back to the eighteenth century and you asked a fifteen year old boy, 'Would you ...

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Ergo: girls should always make the first move, because (a) they are, on the whole, less likely to be...

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Not to sound like a jerk, but Jane isn't really my type. Her hair's kinda disastrously curly and she...

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She’s adorable .” “How would you know?” “I’m gay, not blind. Her hair’s all poofy and she’s got a gr...

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Honestly, I don't even like my type of girl that much, let alone other types. Not that I'm asexual o...

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Are you there God? It’s me, Margaret. I just told my mother I want a bra. Please help me grow God. Y...

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Judy BlumeAre You There God? It's Me

Why do you write strong female characters?Because you're still asking me that question.

My friends say I'm a fool to think that you're the one for me, I guess I'm just a sucker for love. (...

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Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time) Me plus you. (Imma tell you one time)Me plus you. (Imma tell y...

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The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip...

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Khaled HosseiniA Thousand Splendid Suns

Girls are scary. Large groups of girls scare the crap out of me.

A likely story indeed!" said the Pigeon, in a tone of the deepest contempt. "I've seen a good many l...

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Lewis CarrollAlice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass

As a journalist, I am compelled to know the answers.""As a girl, I am compelled to protect what's le...

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Sometimes I just want to go in a room and break things and scream. Like, it’s so much pressure all t...

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So I slap on that smile and pretend everything’s okay even though it’s not.

I've had so many bikini waxes, I cry every time I see a Popsicle stick.

I’m a wild girl from a cursed line of women. I paw at the ground and run under the moon. I like the ...

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Libba BrayBeauty Queens

Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.

I can't make sense out of that girl," he said to the bard, "Can you?" "Never mind," Fflewddur said, ...

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Guys who fuck a lot of women are happy motherfuckers but, girls who fuck a lot of guys are miserable...

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Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms a...

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How little it takes to make a young girl happy! A pretty dress, sunshine, and somebody opposite, and...

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Louisa May AlcottKitty's Class Day and Other Stories

She would make a man of me. She puts strength and courage into me as no one else can. She is unlike ...

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To join the company of women, to be adults, we go through a period of proudly boasting of having sur...

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Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.

Boys", she says, "just aren't very good at being afraid.

He said, I won't have one of those things in the house. It gives a young girl a false notion of beau...

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Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their...

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I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what...

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This murdered girl troubles me. After the first shock, nobody at school says much about her. Even Co...

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We don't know how to be women because we were taught it was not OK to be girls. Our most natural imp...

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All little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.

If you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.

Six years previously, Miss Brodie had led her new class into the garden for a history lesson underne...

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Muriel SparkThe Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

To him it was a sort of hyperspace-librarian, girl-geek thing that he found clever and fetching with...

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Words can be worrisome, poeple complex, motives and manners unclear, grant her the wisdom to choose ...

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You're a poem?' I repeated.She chewed her lower lip. 'If you want. I am a poem, or I am a pattern, o...

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Neil GaimanFragile Things: Short Fictions and Wonders

If girls realized their responsibilities they would be so careful when they smiled that they would p...

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She didn't struggle and so she didn't grow