Girls
Quotes - All little girls should be told they are pretty
“If
you can make a woman laugh, you can make her do anything.”
―
Marilyn Monroe
“All
little girls should be told they are pretty, even if they aren't.”
―
Marilyn Monroe
“A
girl should be two things: classy and fabulous.”
―
Coco Chanel
“Better
to be strong than pretty and useless.”
―
Lilith Saintcrow, Strange Angels
“A
girl should be two things: who and what she wants.”
―
Coco Chanel, Gospel According to Coco Chanel: Life Lessons From The World's
Most Elegant Woman
“That's
the thing about girls. Every time they do something pretty, even if they're not
much to look at, or even if they're sort of stupid, you fall in love with them,
and then you never know where the hell you are. Girls. Jesus Christ. They can
drive you crazy. They really can.”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“Good
girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
―
Mae West, The Wit and Wisdom of Mae West
“You
should write a book," Ron told Hermione as he cut up his potatoes,
"translating mad things girls do so boys can understand them.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Fat’
is usually the first insult a girl throws at another girl when she wants to
hurt her.
I
mean, is ‘fat’ really the worst thing a human being can be? Is ‘fat’ worse than
‘vindictive’, ‘jealous’, ‘shallow’, ‘vain’, ‘boring’ or ‘cruel’? Not to me; but
then, you might retort, what do I know about the pressure to be skinny? I’m not
in the business of being judged on my looks, what with being a writer and
earning my living by using my brain…
I
went to the British Book Awards that evening. After the award ceremony I bumped
into a woman I hadn’t seen for nearly three years. The first thing she said to
me? ‘You’ve lost a lot of weight since the last time I saw you!’
‘Well,’
I said, slightly nonplussed, ‘the last time you saw me I’d just had a baby.’
What
I felt like saying was, ‘I’ve produced my third child and my sixth novel since
I last saw you. Aren’t either of those things more important, more interesting,
than my size?’ But no – my waist looked smaller! Forget the kid and the book:
finally, something to celebrate!
I’ve
got two daughters who will have to make their way in this skinny-obsessed
world, and it worries me, because I don’t want them to be empty-headed,
self-obsessed, emaciated clones; I’d rather they were independent, interesting,
idealistic, kind, opinionated, original, funny – a thousand things, before
‘thin’. And frankly, I’d rather they didn’t give a gust of stinking chihuahua
flatulence whether the woman standing next to them has fleshier knees than they
do. Let my girls be Hermiones, rather than Pansy Parkinsons.”
―
J.K. Rowling
“Harry
was left to ponder in silence the depths to which girls would sink to get
revenge.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“This
is for girls who have the tendency to stay up at night listening to music that
reminds them of their current situation. Who hide their fears, hurt, pain and
tears under the smiles, laughs and giggles on a daily basis. The girls who wear
their heart on their sleeve. The girls who pray that things will work out just
once and they'll be satisfied. The girls who sceam and cry to their pillows
because everyone else fails to listen. The girls who have so many secrets but
wont tell a soul. The girls who have mistakes and regrets as a daily moral. The
girls that never win. The girls that stay up all night thinking about that one
boy and hoping that he'll notice her one day. The girls who take life as it
comes, to the girls who are hoping that it'll get better somewhere down the
road. For the girls who love with all their heart although it always gets
broken. To girls who think it's over. To real girls, to all girls: You're
beautiful.”
―
Zayn Malik
“If
a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late?”
―
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“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, The Virgin Suicides
“Not
knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.”
―
Ally Carter
“Don’t
worry if people think you’re crazy. You are crazy. You have that kind of
intoxicating insanity that lets other people dream outside of the lines and
become who they’re destined to be.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“She
had become accustomed to being lonely. She was used to walking alone and to
being considered 'different.' She did not suffer too much.”
―
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
“Cut
the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl.”
―
Julie Anne Peters, Keeping You a Secret
“Be
that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that
fearless girl, the one who would dare to do anything, be that independent girl
who didn't need a man; be that girl who never backed down.”
―
Taylor Swift
“Well,
wouldn't it have been easier if she'd just asked me whether I liked her better
than you?"
"Girls
don't often ask questions like that," said Hermione.
"Well,
they should!" said Harry forcefully.”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
“Girls
do not dress for boys. They dress for themselves and, of course, each other. If
girls dressed for boys they’d just walk around naked at all times.”
―
Betsey Johnson
