“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.” WritingCharacterGuyGirlCommunityBoysNovelNiceGrewGrew UpMy FriendsExpectedExceptionBad GuysMy BoyfriendGood GirlGood Boy Author:Stephenie Meyer
“I once threw a water balloon on a girl because I caught her cheating on me. She was kissing my friend and I thought, 'Oh, this can't be happening.' It was bad and I was much older than you think throwing a water balloon. I was 14.” ThinkingGirlWaterKissingHappeningsMy FriendsCaughtCheatingThrowingBalloonsCheating On Me Author:Breckin Meyer
“My biggest fear in writing 'Gossip Girl' was that the characters would sound like stereotypical rich, air-headed heiresses. These were my friends. They were smart and multifaceted. They had interests and passions. They wanted to become lawyers and doctors and writers and filmmakers.” WritingCharacterWantedGirlPassionSoundInterestRichAirSmartMy FriendsDoctorsLawyerFilmmakerGossipBiggest FearHeiressGossip Girl Author:Cecily von Ziegesar
“I have this great test to see if a girl's a real friend. When we're shopping I'll pick out an outfit that I know looks hot and one that is awful. If my friend says the bad one looks good, I know she's not a good friend.” IfsKnowsLooksRealGirlPicksMy FriendsTestsHotAwfulShoppingGood FriendReal Friends Author:Paris Hilton
“I wanted to be like my friends. I hung out with girls who had blue eyes and blond hair and I thought, "I want to look like them!"” WantLooksEyeWantedGirlHairMy FriendsBlueHungBlue Eyes Author:Selena Gomez
“I mean, I grew up in the Valley. All my friends were white Jewish kids. So the Latino kids thought I was this white girl.” MeanKidsGirlWhiteGrewGrew UpMy FriendsValleysLatinoWhite Girl Author:America Ferrera
“I'm very clumsy, so there's been a lot of times I've tripped in front of girls I'm in love with, or spilled food all over myself. My friends and I were the class clowns in high school, so one day we were showing off at our seats and I fell off my chair! I had to get stitches, and I had a bloody lip. I was trying so hard to be a cool class clown!” TryingHardSchoolGirlClassFrontsOne DayHigh SchoolMy FriendsLipsSeatsChairsBloodyClownShowing OffClumsyStitchesTrying So Hard Author:Prince Royce
“The girls who like me aren't the ones I like. Or, if I do and they want to commit, I suddenly need tons of time with my friends.” IfsWantNeedsGirlMy FriendsCommitLike Me Author:Ethan Hawke
“I have a few girlfriends, but nearly all my friends are guys. I don't think I ever wore girl clothes. I wore baggy jeans, baggy T-shirts, sweaters, just to avoid the looks that everyone gives you when you're a young female in the world.” ThinkingWorldGivingLooksYoungGuyGirlClothesMy FriendsFemaleShirtsGirlfriendJeansT ShirtSweatersBaggy Clothes Author:Katharine Isabelle
“On the first day of school, my father told me I'd be the most popular girl and everyone would love me and want to be my friend. It wasn't so, but it gave me an enormous amount of confidence.” WantFirstsSchoolGirlFatherAmountMy FriendsEnormousFirst Day Of SchoolPopular Girl Author:Maeve Binchy
“The girls that I grew up with, and my friends and I, we just never had interests in common. I loved comedy. I loved Saturday Night Live, Gilda Radner, Lucille Ball, and Goldie Hawn movies. I just wanted to laugh. I liked women in comedy, and I liked male comics as I got a little older. My interests just never matched up with other girls'.” LittlesWantedNightGirlInterestCommonLaughingComedyGrewGrew UpMy FriendsBallsMalesSaturdaySaturday NightOther GirlMatchedSaturday Night Live Author:Amy Schumer
“Me and my friends in high school were the only girls who went to hardcore shows. It was three of us, and the rest of the audience was male. We didn't really think about it. We weren't thinking we were alienated or whatever, but eventually, as there started to be violence in the scene we were in during high school, we started to be turned off by the violence.” ThinkingShowsSchoolGirlThreeAudienceViolenceSceneHigh SchoolMy FriendsMalesHardcoreTurned Off Author:Kathleen Hanna
“If a girl breaks up with me, I want her to just die, just be dead. Not 'cause I hate her so much as it's just easier for when my friends go, 'Hey, what happened?' 'Oh, she's dead. I'd still be with her, but she's dead. What can I do? She was loving me, but she's dead.'” IfsWantStillsHateDiesGirlCausesBreakHappenedEasierMy FriendsDatingI HateHeyLoving MeFunny DatingHate HerI Hate Her Author:Adam Sandler
“My friend devotes himself to his life, whenever he can find the spare time. His motto is: 'Don't just sit there: live!' So he's too busy to stand, to walk, to do anything, except to live. He even refused to kiss a girl, when invited, on the grounds that it was time again to be living. Schedules are sacred to him.” LifeGirlWalksExistenceKissingMy FriendsSacredBusySparesSchedulesInvitedMottoToo BusySpare Time Author:Marvin L. Cohen
“All my friends were girls. Then my mom's strident feminism for years where men were thought of as the enemy, I just didn't know what the right way to be a man was.” KnowsMenWayYearsGirlEnemyFeminismMomMy FriendsMy MomRight WayBe A Man Author:Michael Ian Black
“Girls didn't really take much interest in me until I was about 14. But I knew how to talk to them very quickly. What I figured out - that my friends didn't - was you have to talk to women like you're not constantly trying to have sex with them. That seemed to work.” TryingGirlSexInterestLike YouMy Friends Author:James McAvoy
“I don't think I'd be a party girl [even if I were] in college. When I was in high school, I remember seeing girls crying in the bathroom every Monday about what they did at a party that weekend. I never wanted to be that girl crying in the bathroom. But there are certain things that I would like to do but can't. Sometimes I don't get invited to things because my friends know it's going to be a hassle to take me.” IfsThinkingKnowsSometimesWantedSchoolRememberCertainGirlPartySeeingCryCollegeHigh SchoolMy FriendsTake MeWeekendInvitedMondayBathroomThat GirlHassleParty GirlGirl Crying Author:Taylor Swift
“I tried to have a cookie, and this girl said, "I'm mailing those cookies to my friend." So I couldn't have one. You shouldn't make cookies untouchable.” SaidHumorFunnyGirlMy FriendsCookiesThis GirlUntouchablesMailing Author:Mitch Hedberg
“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.” GirlStuffStupidSmartMy FriendsTeenagerIdiotStupid ThingsGood GirlSmart Girl Author:Amy Winehouse
“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.” PeopleWantFeelsKindPlayKidsGirlInterestBoysMy FriendsResponseSexualityVulnerableSensitiveTerrifiedConfusingDollsMystiqueSissyBeing A Girl Author:Mary Gaitskill
“Being in a relationship is like being in A.A. My friends ask me, 'How's it going with that girl?' 'One day at a time, man.'” MenHumorFunnyGirlAsksOne DayMy FriendsAsk MeThat GirlOne Day At A Time Author:Adam Ferrara
“Me and my friends get together all the time for girls night, or watch rock of love on the couch. I end up going out to a lot of shows, and surfing with my folks is always high on the priority list.” EndsShowsTogetherNightGirlWatchesRocksMy FriendsFolksListsPrioritiesGoing OutSurfingCouchesGet TogetherGirls Night Author:Tristan Prettyman