“I am involved with 'Write Girl,' which is such a great organization, because they go into inner city schools and work with underprivileged girls to pair them up with other writers. And it gets them learning to express themselves and become familiar with their own voice. They have a 100% success ratio getting those girls into college.” WritingSchoolGirlVoiceCitiesCollegeInvolvedOrganizationFamiliarPairsRatiosInner CityUnderprivilegedGreat OrganizationsInner City Schools Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I feel like 'Gossip Girl' isn't really 'Gossip Girl' anymore when they're away at school because they don't go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much a character as anyone else in the books, and I was really sort of reluctant to show them off in their separate college worlds.” WorldFeelsBookCharacterShowsSchoolGirlCitiesNew YorkCollegeBrownGossipNew York CityReluctantYaleNyuGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“It is a fact of big cities that one girl's darkest how is always another's moment of shining triumph, and New York is the biggest and cruelest city of them all.” MomentsFactsBigsGirlCitiesNew YorkShiningTriumphBig Cities Author:Anna Godbersen
“Girls like Diana Spencer, armed with nothing more than a guinea-pig-rearing certificate, proud to say in that old Sloane way that she was 'as thick as two short planks,' became the exception as girls from Benenden and Downe House started to fast-track towards the City and law, consultancy, media and the arts.” WayArtTwoLawGirlHouseCitiesMediaProudTrackExceptionThickPigsDianaCertificatesGuineaGuinea Pigs Author:Peter York
“Heaven is the most beautiful thing God has ever made, outside of women, God bless them!-And in fact He even uses you women to symbolise the City and He calls that City His Bride, the New Heaven, the New Jerusalem! How about that? He couldn't think of anything more beautiful to symbolise that City than you, you beautiful girls, so He called it His Bride! Why? Because His Bride's going to live there!” ThinkingMadeFactsUseBeautifulGirlHeavenCitiesHeavenlyBlessBeautiful ThingsBridesGod BlessJerusalemBeautiful Girl Author:David Berg
“HONOR. This means that a girl is not satisfied with keeping the letter of the law when she really breaks it in spirit. LOYAL. This means that she is true to her country, to the city or village where she is a citizen, to her family, her church, her school, and those for whom she may work or who may work for her. HELPFUL. The simplest way of saying this for the very young Scout is to do a good turn to someone every day: that is, to be a giver and not a taker. This is the spirit that makes the older Scout into a fine, useful, dependable woman.” WayMayMeanCountrySchoolLawYoungSpiritTurnsGirlChurchCitiesBreakFineCitizensHonorLettersSatisfiedHelpfulVillageLoyalSimplestGiverDependable Author:Juliette Gordon Low
“It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the snake one afternoon long ago. Children must starve in Somalia for that, and old women be abandoned in our greatest cities. It’s why we will finally be thrown into the lakes of molten lead. Because she was confused by happiness that first time anyone said she was beautiful. Nevertheless, she must be the issue, so people won’t notice that rocks and galaxies, mathematics and rust are also created in His image.” PeopleMenFirstsChildrenLongSaidCountryBeautifulGirlCitiesIssuesRocksFirst TimeMathematicsBlameConfusedThrownLakesOld ManAfternoonAbandonedLong AgoNeverthelessSnakesGalaxyConvenientOld WomanRustSomaliaCountry Girl Book:Collected Poems Source: Collected Poems
“We read our mail and counted up our missions In bombers named for girls, we burned The cities we had learned about in school Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among The people we had killed and never seen. When we lasted long enough they gave us medals; When we died they said, "Our casualties were low." They said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.” PeopleLongSaidEnoughBodySchoolGirlCitiesOur LivesLowsDiedLaysMissionsMapsMailBurnedThey SaidMedalCasualtiesBombers Author:Randall Jarrell
“There I was out in the barn playing midwife to a pregnant mare. I remember sitting there, spinning yarn in the light of a little oil lamp, a city girl who knew nothing about farming, sitting on the deel beside that mother in pain, already beginning the birthing process. All around me there was darkness and perfect silence, except for the mother's pain. It was as if the war didn't exist in those hours.” IfsLittlesWarLightPainRememberMotherGirlProcessHoursPerfectCitiesSilenceDarknessSittingOilPregnantLampsFarmingSpinningBarnsMidwifeYarnBirthingMaresCity Girl Author:Diet Eman
“Filming in India was one big adventure. For 'The Cheetah Girls', we were in Mumbai for two weeks, then Rajasthan for six weeks. Every day after shooting, I would hop into a rickshaw and start exploring the city. I even learned a bit of Hindi. It's such an amazing place to visit.” TwoBigsGirlBitsCitiesWeekAdventureSixIndiaShootingHopsExploringTwo WeeksHindiMumbaiCheetahsAmazing PlacesRickshaw Author:Michael Steger
“I just wanted to be who I was, which was like so many other girls I knew. We grew up in the city, had a hard edge and obstacles to overcome, but we were still young and beautiful. I didn't want to be all dressed up, all made up - I wanted to be myself, which hadn't been done before.” WantMadeStillsHardDoneWantedBeautifulYoungGirlCitiesGrewGrew UpOvercomingEdgesObstaclesDressed UpOther GirlYoung And Beautiful Author:Alicia Keys
“I was a runaway girl from France who married an American and moved to New York City. Im not sure I would have continued as an artist had I remained in Paris because of the family setup.” ArtistGirlCitiesNew YorkMarriedMovedFranceParisNot SureNew York CityRunawaySetups Author:Louise Bourgeois
“'Sex and the City' is about outsiders. Single girls as lepers, should have been married by now. It's the reason the whole thing took off.” ShouldHas BeensReasonWholeGirlSexCitiesMarriedShould HaveOutsidersShould Have BeenLeperSex And The CitySingle Girl Author:Michael Patrick King
“I hope there will be no effort to put up a shaft or any monument of that sort in memory of me or of the other women who have giventhemselves to our work. The best kind of a memorial would be a school where girls could be taught everything useful that would help them to earn an honorable livelihood; where they could learn to do anything they were capable of, just as boys can. I would like to have lived to see such a school as that in every great city of the United States.” KindStatesHelpingWould BeSchoolGirlMemoriesUnitedEffortCitiesBoysUnited StatesTaughtCapableHonorableMemorialMonumentLivelihoodGreat Cities Author:Susan B. Anthony
“Not the children of the rich or of the powerful only, but of all alike, boys and girls, both noble and ignoble, rich and poor, in all cities and towns, villages and hamlets, should be sent to school” ShouldChildrenSchoolGirlPoorPowerfulCitiesBoysRichTownsNobleVillageRich And PoorBoy And GirlIgnobleActive MindsCities And Towns Author:John Amos Comenius
“As our boys and men are all expecting to be Presidents, so our girls and women must all hold themselves in readiness to preside inthe White House; and in no city in the world can honest industry be more at a discount than in this capital of the government of the people.” PeopleMenWorldGovernmentGirlHouseWomenPresidentWorkWhiteCitiesBoysHonestIndustryWhite HouseExpectingReadinessDiscountsCities In The World Author:Jane Swisshelm
“Faith should be pulled into the public arena when it affects how we live. If it doesn't, it does no earthly good. What does my faith say about the fact that a girl can't be a nuclear physicist because she's black and from the inner city? My faith says, no, that's not what God intended. It pulls it back into the public arena the idea that there's got to be something fair for all of us.” IfsShouldDoeIdeasFactsGirlBlackCitiesFairsNuclearArenaPhysicistInner City Author:Jeremiah Wright
“In some big cities [in Pakistan] some women have access to a job and education - but the UN reported that more than 5 million girls cannot go to school. It's become an open secret. In some big cities they build schools to deceive people around the world, while the level of education remains very low, and even when they can go to school there is no security.” PeopleWorldBigsSchoolJobsGirlLevelsSecretCitiesMillionsSecurityLowsRemainsAccessAround The WorldDeceivingPakistanBig CitiesJobs And Education Author:Malalai Joya
“The ultimate [travel destination] for me would be one perfect day in San Francisco. There's no city like it anywhere. And, if I could be there with the girl of my dreams, that would be the ultimate!” IfsDreamWould BeGirlPerfectCitiesUltimateIf I CouldDestinationSan FranciscoPerfect DaysGirl Of My Dreams Author:Larry King
“Even in New York, there are a lot of very attractive girls pedaling around. That just happens to be one of the nice sights in our city, seeing a young woman on a bike.” HappensYoungGirlCitiesNiceSeeingNew YorkSightAttractiveYoung WomenBikeAttractive Girl Author:Paul Auster