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“I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.”

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Author:Stephenie Meyer

“Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!”

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Author:Ellen Sussman

“When I got the script to this movie, The Good Girl, I read it in an hour. The writer, Mike White, has an ability to create characters that are so creepy and dysfunctional and human, with this duality that makes people feel empathy for them at the same time. My first thought was 'Was this sent to the right person?' I called my agent. 'Are they sure? Let's say yes before they realize they've sent it to the wrong person!'”

“I get pressure from my audience and my agents to be a 'good girl,' and I'm in the public eye, so if I mess up, it's going to be all over the place.”

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Author:Melissa Joan Hart

“So what do people see when they read that well-behaved women rarely make history? Do they imagine good-time girls in stiletto heels or do-good girls carrying clipboards and passing petitions? Do they envision an out-of-control hobbyist or a single mother taking down a drunk in a bar? I suspect that it depends on where they stand themselves.”

Source: Well-Behaved Women Seldom Make History

“The plight of the actor, even if he's a star, is the plight of the women's movement. They're saying the same thing to us: get into bed, give me a good time, then give me something to eat, go get the laundry, be a good girl.”

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Author:Dustin Hoffman

“You can't be creative and still be a good girl.”

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Author:Erica Jong

“It is quite reasonable to subscribe both to the old saw that no good girl was ever ruined by a book and to the perception that it is not good for children to be constantly exposed to the sexual violence in our popular culture. Protecting children seems to me logically, legally, and rather easily differentiated from censorship.”

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Author:Molly Ivins

“Getting away from being 'a good girl' is important because it's impossible to be a 'good girl' and a writer at the same time.”

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Author:Lynne Sharon Schwartz

“It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or the 'good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.”

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Author:Annette Bening

“I love saying 'yes' and I love saying 'please.' Saying 'yes' doesn't mean I don't know how to say no, and saying 'please' doesn't mean I am waiting for permission. 'Yes please' sounds powerful and concise. It's a response and a request. It is not about being a good girl; it is about being a real woman.”

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Author:Amy Poehler

“I was unwilling to be the good girl who respected the rules in a game designed to keep everyone but the rulemakers off balance.”

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Book:So Shall You Reap

Source: So Shall You Reap

“I went to a Catholic school with 40 kids total. There were no cliques, but I suppose I was the sporty good girl.”

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Author:Taylor Cole

“I had a romantic, 'Aren't I a good girl?' take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.”

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Author:Ali MacGraw

“My mum had a very strong moral code, which I kind of came with. I never really had to be told what was right or wrong - I knew. I was very mature from early on and I was a very good girl, so she never had any trouble with me.”

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Author:Gloria Estefan

“You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever.”

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Author:Jay-Z

“Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.”

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Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“I am the good girl and I always play the good girl. It's nice to do that.”

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Author:Jessica Alba

“I remember hearing once that good girls don't get caught. I think that's sort of a lot of what my teen years were like.”

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Author:Anna Kendrick

“After Princess Diaries, I was labeled a good girl, and for the first eight years of my career I had to fight to get any other kind of role. But I like fighting for a job, actually. Once you get it, you feel like you've emerged victorious from the scrap and you're like, "OK, this one's mine. Did it. Done."”

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Author:Anne Hathaway

“I've never been an idiot - I was a smart girl but I'd do stupid things like go around Asda and nick stuff because my friends told me to. I was a good girl as a teenager.”

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Author:Amy Winehouse

“In the real world, it is hard to be taken seriously as a woman. Use your brain and be smart about your choices. There's nothing wrong with being a good girl - it's actually very attractive and sexy.”

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Author:Faith Hill

“The worst thing a good girl could do to you is break your heart.”

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Author:ASAP Rocky

“I mean, I am still such the-good-girl. I want everybody to like me. I want everybody to be happy.”

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Author:Michelle Williams