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The Great Gatsby
Hamlet
Of Mice and Men
Frankenstein

Girl Quotes

I am the girl-next-door type to some people…I don’t take it as an insult.

– Louise Redknapp

Lucy van Pelt: Schroeder, do you think a pretty girl is like a melody?
Schroeder: I can’t say…I’ve never known any pretty girls!
Lucy van Pelt: May your stupid piano be devoured by termites!

– Charles M. Schulz

You go slow, be gentle. It’s no one-way street – you know how you feel and that’s all. It’s how the girl feels, too. Don’t press. If the girl feels anything for you at all, you’ll know.

– Capt. James T. Kirk

Star Trek: The Original Series, ‘Charlie X’.

You don’t always have to get too sexy to get to know a girl.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 11 is dominated by Holden talking about Jane Gallagher. He gets so depressed thinking of her date with Stradlater that he ends up going to a bar. Holden is struggling with growing up and is trying to hold on to these very special memories of innocence. This quote tells us that his relationship with Jane was nonsexual and that he cares about her on a deeper level.

The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they’ll say he has an inferiority complex, and if they don’t like him, no matter how nice a guy he is, or how big an inferiority complex he has, they’ll say he’s conceited. Even smart girls do it.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Chapter 18. To Holden girls are essential fake, or phony to use one of his favorite words.

If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late? Nobody.

– J. D. Salinger

The Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caulfield in Chapter 17.

I'm glad it's a girl. And I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool - Great Gatsby quote

All right…I’m glad it’s a girl. And I hope she’ll be a fool – that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

– F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby. Chapter 1, Daisy on her newborn girl. She is saying there is no hope for women to make a difference in early society, as they are not seen as intellectural figures in the early 1900s. Better for a woman to act dumb and naive and allow men take care of her, than trying to become strong and opionionated.

Let any pretty girl announce a divorce in Hollywood and the wolves come running. Fresh meat for the beast, and they are always hungry.

– Hedy Lamarr

I am excited when I get a movie and I get to move somewhere for a certain amount of time. But I am a Cali girl.

– Halston Sage

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

– Harriet Ann Jacobs

I wouldn’t say I’m a mummy’s girl, but I have grown to have a tremendous appreciation of her as a woman. I was very much a daddy’s girl.

– Gwyneth Paltrow

‘Girl, Interrupted’ is one of my favorite movies.

– Halston Sage

An Australian girl size 12 and a Swedish girl size 12 are completely different, just because of the way they’re formed. It’s becoming this worldwide movement because people are getting it. We all have two different parents; we’re not supposed to look the same. It’s ridiculous.

– Hayley Hasselhoff

We know that if you educate a girl, as the saying goes, you educate a nation. That girl will get married later, she will have fewer children, she’s more likely to earn an income, and that income is more likely to be plowed back into the family so that the family benefits.

– Helene D. Gayle

I was unnerved to learn in my twenties that the poems of Emily Dickinson that I had memorized as a girl were not the poems as she had written them.

– Helen Vendler

If I had to name one thing that probably causes more conflict within the band, it’s probably the fact that I’m the girl, and it takes much longer with hair and makeup and wardrobe. But they’ve gotten used to it. It’s one of those things I think they realize that when they say she’ll be ready in 10 minutes, it normally means 15 or 20.

– Hillary Scott

There’s an expression in Persian, ‘to play with the lion’s tail.’ I wasn’t what Iranian society wanted me to be – a good girl. I played with the lion’s tail.

– Golshifteh Farahani

My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy’s little girl. He was my first soccer coach.

– Hope Solo

One girl was helped from my appearance on the show, and I swore I would not keep quiet again. When you talk about things that are embarrassing or devastating, obviously you can help people when you do.

– Hunter Tylo

It’s hard because I seek out strong female roles. I turn down a lot of stuff, not because it’s not good, but because I don’t want to play certain types of characters. I don’t like to just play the pretty girl.

– Gina Holden

I was just another girl.

– Hailee Steinfeld

Though we hear various reports of his existence we can never find the young wizard who is able so they say to graft the soul of a girl to the soul of her lover so that not even the sharp scissors of the Fates can ever sever them apart.

– Harry Crosby

You know, I was chubby when I was a little girl. And I have all those issues everyone else has. But I try not to. And I’ve learned over the years that it’s such a waste of time. And people like me whether I’m a little bit fatter or not.

– Gwen Stefani

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.

– Hedy Lamarr

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea.

– G. Stanley Hall

I thought I was investing in myself and my brand, like Kim Kardashian. When she buys these clothes, she’s investing in herself, because she is a big brand and is likable. I thought I had that potential. My ego got too big. To think I could be someone like that when I was the most hated girl ever.

– Heidi Montag

People go to restaurants for so many different reasons. To court a girl, to make some deal. Maybe to talk to some lawyer about how to get an alimony settlement better than they got last week.

– Gay Talese

I’m lucky because I had blonde hair for a while for this TV show I was doing – they had me dye my hair blonde – and every audition I was going out for was bleach blonde. The mean girl, the pretty girlfriend, and the dumb cheerleader.

– Haley Lu Richardson

I’ve always been a girl who loves to dress up.

– Gwen Stefani

I’m usually called upon to play the dreary suicidal girl.

– Hope Davis

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