Girl Quotes

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between her teeth, versus perfect white veneers. Perfection is just... boring. Perfect is what's natural or real; that is beauty.

~ Marc Jacobs

Teenagers, especially girl ones, seem like the perfect canary-in-the-coal-mine characters to me. They capture American culture and its perversion, its hypocrisy - how absorbed we are with youth and beauty and sexualized imagery, for instance, while preaching abstinence and modesty.

~ Antonya Nelson

To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive.

~ Jane Austen

I like a girl with natural beauty.

~ Chandler Parsons

When I was a seminarian, I was dazzled by a girl I met at an uncle's wedding. I was surprised by her beauty, her intellectual brilliance... and, well, I was bowled over for quite a while.

~ Pope Francis

I was not a good-lookin' girl. I was extremely skinny. I wasn't pretty. I wasn't cool.

~ Celine Dion

I do keep getting these bad girl roles. The funny thing is that, honestly, I don't think I'm believable as these aristocratic mean girls. But I do love playing them.

~ Katie Mcgrath

It would be pretty funny to see a Beverly Hills white girl with mad rap skills.

~ Tori Spelling

I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

~ Lana Parrilla

Well in the book Carrie was my alter ego. In real life, Sarah Jessica and I don't look anything alike. But people do say that we sound alike. Sarah Jessica is an adorable girl and she is very funny.

~ Candace Bushnell

I wanted to be that quirky girl who writes funny songs that still have meaning.

~ Katy Perry

I get called 'the girl off the dancing horse.' I just laugh; I think it's really funny. It's true, isn't it? It's great we're getting that recognition.

~ Charlotte Dujardin

When I go to a bar, I don't go looking for a girl who knows the capital of Maine.

~ David Brenner

If you were a successful upper-middle-class Negro girl in the 1950s and '60s, you were, in practice and imagination, a white Protestant upper middle-class girl. Young, good-looking white women were the most desirable creatures in the world. It was hard not to want to imitate them; it was highly toxic, too, as we would learn.

~ Margo Jefferson

I'd stand on the side of the road when I was just a little girl singing on trash cans. People would roll down their windows saying, 'Isn't she cute'. I had a vivid imagination. I always pretended it was some big stage.

~ Missy Elliott

I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.

~ Darcey Bussell

As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.

~ Niecy Nash

I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.

~ Pat Conroy

I think body-image issues are not just a dancer thing. I think we're much more in tune and aware because the body is our instrument and art, and we stare at ourselves in a mirror all day, but I feel like it's something that every woman experiences and every girl experiences.

~ Misty Copeland

Friendship is the complete explanation of what a Cheetah Girl is - if you have that true friendship, you can conquer anything you want.

~ Sabrina Bryan

Primarily, 'Black Girl/White Girl' is the story of two very different, yet somehow 'fated' girls; for Genna, her 'friendship' with Minette is the most haunting of her life, though it is one-sided and ends in tragedy.

~ Joyce Carol Oates

I'm quite obsessed with the idea of nailing the girl friendship. It's such an art, so delicate.

~ Alanis Morissette

I love all girl squads. I'm all for, like, girl power and friendship, and I'm all about that.

~ Poppy Delevingne

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

~ Betty Gilpin

A girl does not treat a possible lover with unvarying simplicity and directness. In all its phases, love is complex; friendship is not.

~ Thomas Bailey Aldrich

The whole 1950s notion was find the right girl, get married, move to the suburbs and then hang out with the guys while she stayed home with the babies. I felt that was sort of sad.

~ Hugh Hefner

But I now entered on my fifteenth year - a sad epoch in the life of a slave girl. My master began to whisper foul words in my ear. Young as I was, I could not remain ignorant of their import.

~ Harriet Ann Jacobs

The hate directed against the colored people here in St. Louis has always given me a sad feeling because when I was a little girl I remember the horror of the East St. Louis race riot.

~ Josephine Baker

I want my clothes to have a life and then end up in a secondhand store, where some cool girl discovers them 20 years later. If the runway or red carpet is the only life clothes have, it's sad.

~ Jeremy Scott

When I was a young girl, I lost a lot of weight over one summer - involuntarily - and was just really depressed and sad. There was nothing I could do to gain weight. I would look in the mirror and call myself disgusting every day.

~ Tyra Banks

I was a very sad little girl.

~ Julie Andrews

I'd like a male to listen to my music and find it kind of fascinating, what a girl goes through when they get heartbroken or get sad or get hurt by something.

~ Ellie Goulding

I don't want to see myself as this sad, disabled girl. I know that. I don't want other people to see me as that, either.

~ Amy Purdy

I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

~ Yvonne Strahovski

I think my thing is that... I don't know. And that's why I don't wanna sing about 'This is me, this is who I am' because, like, even the question, 'Tell me about yourself' - what are you supposed to say? 'Ooh, I'm a happy girl, but I'm sad, too'? People are so complex.

~ Zara Larsson

Women often don't want to be typecast as the girl that's sad.

~ Julia Michaels

Advancements in technology have become so commonplace that sometimes we forget to stop and think about how incredible it is that a girl on her laptop in Texas can see photos and cell phone video in real time that a young college student has posted of a rally he's at in Iran.

~ Rosalind Wiseman

I was nerdy girl who went to Catholic school and wanted to be an engineer. I was all set to attend the Illinois Institute of Technology. And then I took a hard left turn and studied Liberal Arts at Northern Illinois University, majored in Communications. Then worked in radio as a disk jockey and as the weather girl.

~ Cindy Morgan

What is free time? I'm a single mother. My free moments are filled with loving my little girl.

~ Roma Downey

For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

~ Taylor Swift