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Quotes About Girl

I don't mean your resentment toward them, said Philip... I mean your extending the enmity to a helpless girl, who has too much sense and goodness to share their narrow prejudices. She has never entered into the family quarrels. What does that signify? We don't ask what a woman does; we ask whom she belongs to. It's altogether a degrading thing to you, to think of marrying old Tulliver's daughter.
~ George Eliot
Society never made the preposterous demand that a man should think as much about his own qualifications for making a charming girl happy as he thinks of hers for making himself happy. As if a man could choose not only his wife but his wife's husband!
~ George Eliot
Tom's contemptuous conception of a girl included the attribute of being unfit to walk in dirty places.
~ George Eliot
Could there be a slenderer, more insignificant thread in human history than this consciousness of a girl, busy with her small inferences of the way in which she could make her life pleasant?—in a time, too, when ideas were with fresh vigor making armies of themselves, and the universal kinship was declaring itself fiercely;
~ George Eliot
Who that cares much to know the history of man, and how the mysterious mixture behaves under the varying experiments of Time, has not dwelt, at least briefly, on the life of Saint Theresa,' has not smiled with some gentleness at the thought of the little girl walk- ing forth one morning hand-in-hand with her still smaller brother, to go and seek martyrdom in the country of the Moors?
~ George Eliot
In Nurturant Parent morality, the teenage girl is "in trouble," she needs help and deserves empathy (moral-action Category 2—helping).
~ George Lakoff
My journey in the military solidified my tireless commitment to making sure girls and women are given the opportunity to meet their full potential, and nobody tells them they can't do something because they're a girl.
~ Martha McSally
No wonder they call shopping 'retail therapy,' as any girl will tell you how it just takes away all the stress.
~ Riya Sen
We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn't the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life's lived before it gets to the parlor door.
~ Djuna Barnes
A relationship book I once read told women to use the word 'fun' whenever possible. The author claimed it had a subliminal aphrodisiac effect on men, who want a relaxed girl attached only to good times - the human equivalent of Diet Coke. This is not me.
~ Julie Klausner
I've always had a teenage thread running through my music. On my first album, I had a song called 'Confessions of a Teenage Girl.' It's about using your feminine wealth to get what you want.
~ Bonnie McKee
I think I developed language skills to deal with threat. It's the girl thing to do-you know, instead of pulling out a gun.
~ Barbara Kruger
I'm thrilled to start my family with a little girl! My boyfriend and I couldn't be happier!
~ Holly Madison
I was so thrilled that I was having a girl, because I just am so girly myself, but I think the teenage years are going to be very interesting.
~ Sarah Dessen
It's about having that nice balance. I think that's the answer to today's modern girl who is on the run. She's throwing on something before she goes out, but I still believe in the glitz and the glamour of everything and making that come to life.
~ Emilia Wickstead
I am yearning for love, yearning for a girl poor of heart who loves me, her hand is trembling on a blue treetop, in order to yearn for my love, always at a high place, is trembling with gentle feeling.
~ Sakutar? Hagiwara
You're Transport.' " She shrugged. "I'm neither. But even so, I was tripled. I know about that." "Customs don't triple," he said. "Two guys and myself. If I ever do it again it'll be with a girl and a guy. For me that would be easier
~ Samuel R. Delany
sinä kaunis, sinä riemastuttava tyttö
~ Sapfo
gathering flowers so very delicate a girl
~ Sappho
It's no use Mother dear, I can't finish my weaving You may blame Aphrodite soft as she is she has almost killed me with love for that girl
~ Sappho
I cannot imagine in the future any girl who looks on the light of the sun who will have your skill and wisdom.
~ Sappho
A girl in a yellow dress on a sunny day with nothing inside her but darkness
~ Sara Craven
You do not say no to the girl with the deities.
~ Sarah Beth Durst
I like low-maintenance girls, but at the same time, classy. She needs to take care of herself. But also be a girl who isn't afraid to get sweaty and play basketball, so it's cool if she's a tomboy.
~ Chris Brown