Being A Girl Quotes - Page 3

• Being a girl, my parents could have discouraged me from racing ... but my family has such a passion and so much confidence in me, and that goes a long way.

  Danica Patrick

  Girl, Passion, Long

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• When I was a kid, I did want to be a boy. I didn't like to play with dolls, and most of my friends were kind of sensitive, sissy boys. But as I got older, the mystique of being a girl began to interest me. It was confusing what sexuality was, and the responses of other people, but it didn't make me feel terrified or vulnerable.

  Mary Gaitskill

  Girl, Kids, Boys

  Interview with Sheila Heti, believermag.com. February 1, 2009.

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• I think there's a whole bunch of things that go along with being a girl. You're not supposed to have opinions or be tough or strong. You're supposed to be soft and vulnerable, and I find those qualities important in both men and women.

  Ellen DeGeneres

  Girl, Strong, Men

  "Ellen The Generous". Interview with Patricia Marx, www.elle.com. October 12, 2007.

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• South Pacific - I really learned a lot. I swear I like to say that during South Pacific, I went from being a girl to being a woman.

  Laura Osnes

  Girl, Being A Woman, Swear

  "BWW Interviews: Two-Time Tony Nominee Laura Osnes Talks Masterclasses in Texas". Interview with Katricia Lang, www.broadwayworld.com. August 27, 2014.

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• I basically get stereotyped a lot in terms of being a girl and writing 'chick' music for teenage girls or something. I think, if anything, the press kind of, because of my gender and my age, tends to kind of relegate my work to this sort of special-interest group. It's part of the cultural dynamic, I guess.

  Ani DiFranco

  Girl, Teenage, Writing

  "Interview: Righteous Babe Ani DiFranco". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. September 8, 1999.

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• What does being a girl have to do with it? There's no time to think when you're on the spot.

  Bisco Hatori

  Girl, Thinking, Doe

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• I think that the path that I took was normal in the American society where young women and men are not trained as to how to make the transition from being a girl to being a woman, from being a boy to being a man. And so I think that most young people in America live by trial and error, and not by parental instruction, community guidance.

  Sister Souljah

  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.

  Ian Mcewan

  Girl, Believe, Cutting

  Ian McEwan (2010). “The Cement Garden”, p.48, Random House

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• There are a million rules for being a girl. There are a million things you have to do to get through each day. High school has things that can trip you up, ruin you, people say one thing and mean another, and you have to know all the rules, you have to know what you can and can't do.

  Elizabeth Scott

  Girl, School, Mean

  Elizabeth Scott (2010). “The Unwritten Rule”, p.115, Simon and Schuster

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• For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?

  D. H. Lawrence

  Girl, Mean, Perfect

  D. H. Lawrence (2013). “The Essential D.H. Lawrence”, p.1590, Simon and Schuster

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• Being a girl was something that never really happened for me.

  Rae Spoon

  Girl, Happened

  Ivan E. Coyote, Rae Spoon (2014). “Gender Failure”, p.21, Arsenal Pulp Press

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