“Sometimes I get this gut feeling about people - maybe I sense a hidden agenda or that they care for the money more than the message. I wish that I'd listen to that feeling instead of waiting for the truth to rear its ugly head. I'm a smart girl. I'm loyal. But sometimes I'm too loyal. I'm not loyal enough to myself.” PeopleSometimesEnoughFeelingsCareGirlWishWaitingMessagesSmartUglyGutsAgendasLoyalGut FeelingsSmart Girl Author:Lady Gaga
“I was not considered beautiful before I was a feminist. I was a pretty girl before, but suddenly, after I was publicly identified as a feminist, I was beautiful. So, many people were really commenting on what they thought feminists looked like.” PeopleBeautifulGirlFeministPretty Girl Author:Gloria Steinem
“As Ray Bradbury - a longtime contributor to Playboy - said a long time ago, a lot of people, when they're talking about the contents of the magazine, they don't see the forest. People don't see the other part of my life because they're too fascinated with the girls.” PeopleLongSaidGirlTalkingLong TimeForestsMagazinesRaysFascinatedLong Time AgoPlayboyContributorsBradbury Author:Hugh Hefner
“What intrigues me is that people kind of naturally want to label or pigeonhole the characters. They want to make it easy for themselves to go, "All right. There's the good guy, there's the bad guy, there's the girl. Okay, I get it now." But life isn't one-dimensional. The world isn't simply divided into good versus evil. I think we're all capable of both. So any time the hero does something I'm not crazy about, or the bad guy does something I can relate to, I'll find it more interesting.” PeopleThinkingWorldWantKindDoeI CanCharacterGuyGirlEvilEasyInterestingCrazyHeroCapableOkayLabelsRelateDividedVersusIntrigueBad GuysGood Guy Author:Alexander Skarsgard
“I know a lot of people think of me and they like, oh that girl is really sexy, that girl is really put together, she would never do something as unladylike as a beet eating competition.” PeopleThinkingKnowsTogetherGirlEatingCompetitionSexyThink Of MeThat GirlBeets Author:Mindy Kaling
“I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.” PeopleKnowsWayWholeWantedGuyCertainGirlAsksBoysFireLegsAdolescenceLightingUnansweredLighting A FireAsk A Girl Author:Madonna Ciccone
“People are going to say, "I was a lesbian back in the 90s" just like people say, "I was a hippie in the 60s". I see them struggling. Rich girls struggling with their heterosexuality.” PeopleGirlStruggleRichHippieHeterosexualityRich Girl Author:John Waters
“I don't believe consumers want to see fuller-figured girls in ads. Because if they did they would refuse to buy the things they are seeing, and want to buy a different product. If people really want to see a change, they have to speak up on a daily basis to see that change. And I think that models who are suffering from an eating disorder, it is as sad to look at them as the person who is suffering from obesity or who is smoking outside their office or person who is drinking too much at the bar - everybody is suffering from something pretty much.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantBelieveLooksPersonsDifferentSufferingGirlSpeakToo MuchSeeingProductsOfficeEatingModelsBasesDrinkingDon't BelieveRefuseBarsConsumersSmokingDisorderAdsObesityEating DisorderDrinking Too Much Author:Kelly Cutrone
“Beauty is everywhere and it comes in all different forms. Many times I don't find a size zero girl amazing, I find her really shockingly thin or small, and I think that beauty comes in all different forms. Beauty is about how you feel. There are plenty of people who are amazing to look at who are super beautiful, and then there are plenty of people who are easy to look at who are not beautiful at all, they open their mouth or they have an attitude or they are cruel, and they look hideous suddenly.” PeopleThinkingFeelsLooksDifferentBeautifulFormGirlEasyAttitudeMouthsSizePlentyZeroHideousHow You FeelSize Zero Author:Kelly Cutrone
“I think that the idea of reaching young girls that are in college is something that we are strongly open to because who better wants to know how to live a more purposeful life than people who are starting out?” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantIdeasYoungGirlKnow HowCollegeStartingReachingStarting OutPurposeful Life Author:Oprah Winfrey
“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
“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
“You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.” PeopleShouldMeanShowsHumorCareAgeFunnyGirlNiceTvsDon't CareI Don't CareGradesBeing NiceTv ShowsOther GirlBe Nice To People Author:Chelsea Handler
“I think it's important for girls at a young age to be involved in as many things as possible. Especially safe communities of people that teach them great life lessons like self-confidence and courage. And getting girls to go to camp especially in the summer where they can meet new friends, learn new things, and not just sit at home and watch TV.” PeopleThinkingImportantSelfHomeAgeYoungGirlCommunityWatchesTeachTvsInvolvedLessonsSafeSummerSelf ConfidenceCampsLife LessonNew ThingsYoung AgeNew FriendsConfidence And CourageMeeting New Friends Author:Shawn Johnson
“The only time I get upset by things written about me - when people write irresponsible things about my weight... I appreciate that young girls look up to me. And I take that very seriously.” PeopleWritingLooksYoungGirlWrittenAppreciateWeightUpsetLook UpOnly TimeIrresponsible Author:Victoria Beckham
“I can't imagine anything worse than trying to impress a girl with dinner. To be honest, I'm always impressing myself, not other people.” PeopleTryingI CanGirlImagineHonestDinnerBeing HonestImpressImpress A Girl Author:Marco Pierre White
“I love people-watching at the clubs in Los Angeles, where girls make fools of themselves and guys pay thousands of dollars for a couple of bottles of vodka just so they can get a table. It's quite a scene.” PeopleGuyGirlPayFoolCoupleSceneTablesDollarsClubsLos AngelesBottlesVodka Author:Jackie Collins
“I hope to inspire everyone - especially young people, women, and young girls all over the world, and in Middle Eastern countries that do not provide women with the same opportunities as men - to not give up their dreams and to pursue them.” PeopleMenWorldGivingCountryDreamYoungGirlOpportunityMiddleInspireGiving UpPursueEasternNot Giving Up Author:Anousheh Ansari
“Representation is very important to everyone, but especially to girls like me, and people like me, whether it be because of my body, because of my race, because of my skin color, because of my awkwardness or where I come from.” PeopleImportantBodyGirlRaceColorSkinsLike MeRepresentationAwkwardnessSkin Color Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“I feel people are seeing me as a true artist rather than a singer, or an entertainer, or a girl who just makes songs.” PeopleFeelsArtistSongGirlSeeingSingersEntertainersTrue Artists Author:Alessia Cara
“Aggression is part of the masculine design, we are hardwired for it.... Little girls do not invent games where large numbers of people die, where bloodshed is a prerequisite for having fun. Hockey, for example, was not a feminine creation. Nor was boxing. A boy wants to attack something - and so does a man, even if it's only a little white ball on a tee.” PeopleIfsMenWantLittlesDoeDiesGirlGamesFunWhiteNumbersBoysExampleDesignCreationBallsHaving FunBoxingFeminineHockeyAggressionMasculineLarge NumbersPrerequisitesBloodshedTees Book:Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul Source: Wild at Heart Revised and Updated: Discovering the Secret of a Man's Soul
“People are part of my music. A lot of my songs are the result of emotional experiences, sadness, pain, joy, and exultation in nature and sunshine and so on...like 'California Girls' which was a hymn to youth.” PeoplePainJoySongGirlResultsSadnessYouthEmotionalCaliforniaSunshineHymnsCalifornia Girls Author:Brian Wilson
“We're raising our girls to understand the real meaning of Christmas, and to know that it's most important to have Christmas in your heart. We go to our local mall and donate toys, and we say prayers for all the people in the world who might not be as lucky as we are.” PeopleKnowsWorldHeartImportantRealMightGirlPrayerLuckyLocalsToysMallsDonateMeaning Of Christmas Author:Faith Hill
“Too often little attention is paid to individual talent. instead, education goes on dividing people according to their sex, and putting them in little feminine or masculine pigeonholes ... Girls are shielded and sometimes helped so much that they lose initiative and begin to believe the signs 'Girls don't' and 'Girls can't' which mark their paths... Consequently, it seems almost necessary to evolve different methods of instruction for them when they later take up the same subjects.” PeopleBelieveLittlesDifferentSometimesSeemsGirlIndividualSexWomenLosesAttentionPathSubjectsTalentGoes OnMarkPaidMethodEvolveAviationFeminineInstructionInitiativeMasculineDividingIndividual Talent Author:Amelia Earhart
“There are so many girls out there that I don't have to work with and who aren't married or have boyfriends. There's plenty of people out there, so you don't have to mix work and pleasure. It gets muddy.” PeopleGirlPleasureMarriedPlentyMuddy Author:Bryan Greenberg
“I guess I'm one of those girls who can be too honest about things for my own good, but I expect it back. I expect people to be honest and blunt with me, too.” PeopleGirlMy OwnHonestBeing HonestBlunt Author:Vanessa Hudgens