Girls
Quotes - Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves
“How
can I have hung round you for five years and not think girls are clever?”
―
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
“The
self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index,
youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized
locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In
externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional
independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel
like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on
the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates
when the Other is absent.”
―
Antonella Gambotto-Burke, The Eclipse: A Memoir of Suicide
“We
girls are prewired to like things that make you suffer.”
―
Victoria Scott, The Collector
“Don't
you know girls have to fool people every day of their lives if they want to get
anywhere?”
―
Salman Rushdie, Haroun and the Sea of Stories
“All
those other girls are cake...I'm Crème brûlée...Tiramisu, if you will. Just a
few notches above.”
―
Brandi L. Bates
“All
of them are the same type; girls with overprocessed hair and too much makeup
and way too much access to Daddy’s credit cards. Girls who, if you took away
the designer labels, hair dye and cover-up, wouldn’t be more than
average-looking, but with all that stuff look too plastic to be pretty.”
―
Hannah Harrington, Speechless
“There
is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”
―
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“It
would be so much easier if I did not want to know everything so badly. If I did
not want so badly to be reliant upon no soul by myself.”
―
Mackenzi Lee, The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy
“That
is what I want to tell you about: the girls with their short skirts and bright
eyes and big-city dreams.
The
girls of 1929.”
―
Anna Godbersen, Bright Young Things
“That
is because no one could ever hate me as much as I hate myself, okay? So any
mean thing someone's gonna think of to say about me, I've already said to me,
about me, probably within the last half hour.”
―
Lena Dunham
“So,
in the interests of survival, they trained themselves to be agreeing machines
instead of thinking machines. All their minds had to do was to discover what
other people were thinking, and then they thought that, too.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut, Breakfast of Champions
“Ah!
What pleasure it must be to a woman to suffer for the one she loves!”
―
Honoré de Balzac, Père Goriot
“Here
are the things girls die of: hunger, disease, accidents, childbirth, and
violence. It takes more than heartache to kill a girl. Girls are tough as
rocks.”
―
Jennifer Donnelly, Stepsister
“Starting
over can be the scariest thing in the entire world, whether it’s leaving a
lover, a school, a team, a friend or anything else that feels like a core part
of our identity but when your gut is telling you that something here isn’t
right or feels unsafe, I really want you to listen and trust in that voice.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“What
about the nobodies and the nothings, the invisible girls? We learn to hold our
heads as if we wear crowns. We learn to wring magic from the ordinary.”
―
Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom
“Girls
are cruelest to themselves.
Someone
like Emily Brontë,
who
remained a girl all her life despite her body as a woman,
had
cruelty drifted up in all the cracks of her like spring snow.”
―
Anne Carson, Glass, Irony and God
“One
of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is
sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out
there and finding him themselves.”
―
Meg Cabot
“This
should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what
they know they can get. We girls, on the other hand, aim really high. We take a
leap...”
―
Adriana Trigiani, Viola in Reel Life
“It's
all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.”
― F.
Scott Fitzgerald, Gatsby Girls
“The
day came when she discovered sex, sensuality, and literature; she said, 'I
submit! Let my life be henceforth ruled by poetry. Let me reign as the queen of
my dreams until I become nothing less than the heroine of God.”
―
Roman Payne
“Beautiful
girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.”
―
Cassandra Clare
“Running
in the wind, in the pollen and dust, a flower in flight”
―
Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita
“It's
a secret code," said Calvin. "Girls are not not like boys. If a boy
wants to kill you, he says 'I'm going to kill you.' If a girl wants to kill
you, she says, 'We need to talk.' That's the code."
I
gasped. "Has a girl ever wanted to talk to you?" I asked.
"Yup,"
said Calvin.
"How
come you're still alive?" I asked.
"I
vomited," said Calvin.”
―
Lenore Look, Allergic to Birthday Parties, Science Projects, and Other Man-made
Catastrophes
“A
woman who holds her head up too high, is trying to breathe from her own
pollution.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“They
smile that smile, they bat those eyes. They steal with hello, they kill you
with goodbye. They're the perfect drug. As you're walking away, you hear that
sweet voice, 'Stay.”
―
Scotty McCreery, I Love You This Big: Piano/Vocal/Guitar, Sheet
“I
want to read
so I
can read the Koran
read
the signs in the street
know
the number of the bus
I'm
supposed to take
when
I one day leave this house.”
―
Eve Ensler, I Am an Emotional Creature
“Shopping
is really complicated if you are a girl.”
―
Helen Salter, Does Snogging Count as Exercise?
