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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

Girls and women, in their new, particular unfolding, will only in passing imitate men's behavior and...

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Someday there will be girls and women whose name will no longer mean the mere opposite of the male, ...

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Girls, there are poets who learn from youto say, what you, in your aloneness, are;and they learn thr...

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Rainer Maria RilkeThe Book of Images

You? Nervous? Man, you've got more balls than any girl I've ever known!' 'You've known some weird gi...

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Randa Abdel-FattahDoes My Head Look Big In This?

A bad girl is a far more dangerous thing than a bad boy.

But, do you know, once you get used to it's rather cute. I mean, if a girl looks alright to start wi...

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Don't you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get anywhere?

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Salman RushdieHaroun and the Sea of Stories

I don't know," I said. "What else did you do for your first eighteen years?""Like I said," he said a...

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I just cash in on the fact that I’m good looking, and I’ve got a nice figure and girls like me.

Is it because I'm a girl?"Reluctantly, Bill nodded his head.She looked at him for a moment, her lips...

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He thought that fat boys were probably only allowed to love pretty girls inside. If he told anyone h...

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I worried so much about how I looked and whether I was doing things right, I felt half the time I wa...

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Everything is about them, not the dying boys and girls in the arena.

You're more trouble than you're worth." "I'm a girl. That's my job.

Taylor Swift on why girls look up to her: "It’s the message. I try to have a normal life and look at...

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Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the o...

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You've gotta stop calling each sl*ts and wh*r*s. That just makes it more okay for GUYS to call you s...

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There was a hint of spring in her sole green eyes, something summery in her complexion, and a rich a...

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What girls do to each other is beyond description. No Chinese torture comes close.

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Tori AmosTori Amos: Piece by Piece

But if Miss Golightly remained unconscious of my existence, except as a doorbell convenience, I beca...

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Truman CapoteBreakfast at Tiffany's

...he called after her as shedisappeared down the path, a pretty girl in a hurry...

But when she looked at Prue tonight, she saw this was not now quite true of her. She was just beginn...

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Lighted advertisements went running up dark red facades and dissipating again. He would pass girls; ...

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Running in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight

...ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselv...

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She did what girls generally do when they don't feel the part: she dressed it instead.

This was why Kiki had dreaded having girls: she knew she wouldn't be able to protect them from self-...

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- You look fine. - Right. I look fine. Except I don't, said Zora, tugging sadly at her man's nightsh...

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Last year, when Zora was a freshman, sophomores had seemed altogether a different kind of human: so ...

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I like Dancing of Indian girls more than my parents’ prayers . Because they dance with love and pass...

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One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't ...

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It is only through my daughter that I have come to realise that a life without femininity – devoid o...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeMama: Dispatches from the Frontline of Love

The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This...

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Antonella Gambotto-BurkeThe Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide

True beauty in a woman is reflected in the caring that she lovingly gives, the passion that she show...

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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.