G Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with G. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“girls sitting together and apart from us, reared into self-conscious anxiety in the presence of men”
Source: Memory of Departure
“Girls- some of them are annoying”
“Girls spend slightly more time playing with the doll than with the truck. Boys on the other hand typically spend great deal more time playing with the truck rather than with the doll. We were taught that the social construction of gender is the appropriate framework in which to understand these results [..] We give girls a fairly consistent message that girls are supposed to play with dolls and not with trucks. So when offered a choice girls will be more likely to play with dolls rather than trucks. But if a girl picks up a truck it's not a catastrophe. WIth boys the stakes are higher, we send boys a much stronger message what a boy is and is not supposed to do. Boys are not supposed to play with dolls. Boys get that message loud and clear.”
Source: Why Gender Matters: What Parents and Teachers Need to Know about the Emerging Science of Sex Differences
“Girls spilled drinks down their dresses and flicked their hair. Wishing anyone, maybe even you, would notice them... You were someone to me.”
“Girls started noticing me a little bit more in senior year, and junior year, and that was weird”
“Girls struggles with mixed messages: Be beautiful, but beauty is only skin deep. Be sexy, but not sexual. Be honest, but don’t hurt anyone’s feelings. Be independent, but be nice. Be smart, but not so smart you threaten boys.”
Source: Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls
“Girls study under the paralyzing idea that their acquirements cannot be brought into practical use. They may subserve the purposes of promoting individual domestic pleasure and social enjoyment in conversation, but what are they in comparison with the grand stimulation of independence and self- reliance, of the capability of contributing to the comfort and happiness of those whom they love as their own souls?”
“Girls take up a lot of room. I had a lot of room for this one.”
Source: Love Is a Mix Tape: Life, Loss, and What I Listened To
“Girls talk to each other like men talk to each other. But girls have an eye for detail.”
“Girls tend to attribute their failures to factors such as lack of ability, while boys tend to attribute failure to specific factors, including teachers' attitudes. Moreover, girls avoid situations in which failure is likely, whereas boys approach such situations as a challenge, indicating that failure differentially affects self-esteem.”
Source: Shame: The Exposed Self
“Girls tend to get seduced through their ears. Guys tend to get seduced through their eyes.”
“Girls that aren't cut out for business careers usually wind up married to some nice man.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“Girls that I dated, it's ok I am not mad yo Unless you stabbed me in the heart, no love ho.”
“Girls. The oldest mystery in the universe.”
Source: Trust No One
“Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true.”
“Girls think that being glamorous means making mistakes and being irresponsible. And that's just not true. The smarter you are, the better prepared you are to make decisions in your life, the more likely you are to lead a satisfying life and be glamorous and fun and anything you want to be.”
“Girls think they’re only allowed to wear dresses on formal occasions, but I like a woman who says, you know, I’m going over to see a boy who is having a nervous breakdown, a boy whose connection to the sense of sight itself is tenuous, and gosh dang it, I am going to wear a dress for him.”
“Girls throw away so much energy in this search for beauty and sexiness.”
“Girls throw their panties on the stage, but rarely if ever do they fit.”
“Girls today laugh at the swooning habits of their grandmothers. They are right to do so, and I am certain that courage in them is no less natural than in us, nor less a duty.”
Source: Strange Defeat
“Girls took to dressing like boys, and though women had obtained the vote, we had swiftly moved on to pursuing flashier freedoms: necking in cars and smoking cigarettes and walking down city streets in flesh colored stockings.”
Source: Bright Young Things
“Girls under the age of fourteen are the most frightening creatures I have ever come across. - Jonah Griggs”
“Girls Understand Girls,But they don't like each other.”
“Girls use social media in all kinds of ways. They use it to have friendships. They use it to be playful with each other, to make each other laugh.”
“Girls usually take more time to move on, but once they do, they ain’t coming back ever. They’d rot alone but they won’t relapse.”
“Girls Wanted to Enter Flight Stewardess Training Group
Here is the Career Opportunity for Which You Have Been Waiting!
If you are interested and feel you can meet all of the qualifications below, please write in detail and attach a full length photograph.
HEIGHT: Between 5'2" and 5'6"
WEIGHT: 135 pounds maximum
ATTRACTIVE: "Just below Hollywood" standards
Plenty of Personality and Poise
GENDER: Female
MARITAL STATUS: Single, Not Divorced,
Separated, or Widowed
RACE: White
AGE: 21-26 years old
EDUCATION: Registered Nurse or Two Years of College
VISION: 20/20 without glasses
Must be a US citizen and available for training within 6 months.
If you feel you qualify--”
Source: In the Unlikely Event
“Girls was the first television show I got to be a part of, and that was here in New York. Getting to work with Lena Dunham, and to work with HBO and Judd Apatow, and then being a big fan of Ryan Murphy, I couldn't have asked for a better opportunity than this.”
“Girls, watch out for the bad guys!...there are those capable of showering their resources on you just to dance on top of you, and finally destroy your good image and reputation.”
“Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be.”
Source: The Auto-biography of Goethe: Truth and Poetry: from My Own Life
“Girls weekend with the 'Vampire Diaries' girls has become a big deal! It's our quality time. It's so much fun to unload and not feel guilty complaining or talking about your insecurities or bonding over things that you thought you were on your own about.”
“Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.”
“Girls were born knowing how destructive the truth could be. They learned to hold it in, tamp it down, like gunpowder in an old fashioned gun. Then it exploded in your face on a November day in the rain.”
Source: Paint It Black
“Girls were coming from every angle. I couldn't love them all. But I tried.”
“Girls were like aliens, and as far as he was concerned, Ridley was their queen.”
“Girls were nice to me in the same way that they would be nice to a hamster. I fantasized about wild encounters with females but knew they'd never happen unless my own involvement could somehow go undetected.”
“Girls were pure different from fellas. They lit the room with candles, got extra pillows and cushions from upstairs. Big bags of M&M's and Maltesers. Popcorn with lashings of butter.”
Source: Kala
“Girls weren’t drug addicted, they were love addicted, and that, I’ll learn, is far harder to treat.”
“Girls when it says "I love you" - it's like a second baptism - It gives them a whole new heart - As at the end of the egg.”
“Girls who are dancers tend to be much better models than girls who just got picked off the street. Dance is a discipline, just like martial arts. No matter what you do, you have this sort of confidence that no one can take away from you - every time you step somewhere, you're sure of where you're going.”
“Girls who are ignored can learn to be impossible, can learn to listen, and look, and learn more than they were ever meant to know.”
Source: Over the Woodward Wall
“Girls who are on top of things must have three hundred ways of responding to tired thirty-five-year-old divorced men.”
Source: Sputnik Sweetheart
“Girls who go looking for trouble usually find it.”
Source: The Once and Future Witches
“Girls who have a strong belief system are beautiful in a great way.”
“Girls who kiss boys, girls who date them, girls who call them on the phone... that's all they do. There are other things I want to do.”
Source: When I Was Older
“Girls who lead turn in to women who thrive.”
“Girls who put out are tramps. Girls who don't are ladies. This is, however, a rather archaic usage of the word. Should one of you boys happen upon a girl who doesn't put out, do not jump to the conclusion that you have found a lady. What you have probably found is a Lesbian.”
“Girls Who Rocked the World is full of inspiring stories about young women who demonstrate that people of all ages have the power to create change in the world.”
“Girls who stay true to themselves manage to find some way to respect the parts of themselves that are spiritual. They work for the betterment of the world. Girls who act from their false selves are often cynical about making the world a better place. They have given up hope. Only when they reconnect with the parts of themselves that are alive and true will they again have the energy to take on the culture and fight to save the planet.”
“Girls who used to tell me I ain't cool enough now text me pics saying you can tear this up!”
“Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.”