“I went to a strict elementary school with nuns, and uniforms that I'm pretty sure were made out of sandpaper. It was an academic, sports-oriented place. I liked to read, and wanted to act, and didn't try out for volleyball. I was weird. The other girls would dip my hair in ink and stuff.” TryingMadeWantedSchoolGirlStuffSportsHairAcademicUniformsStrictInkVolleyballNunDipOther GirlElementary SchoolSandpaper Author:Zosia Mamet
“I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.” FeelsLooksLongMadeDreamWantedBeautifulUsedGirlFunWishStuffHairNormalOppositesAbsolutesAmerican DreamSkinnyLightersBeautiful Girl Author:Gabourey Sidibe
“I never really thought of myself as a physical comedian. But when I was a kid, I used to, you know, pretend to trip over things to make girls laugh in school and stuff like that. So I kind of learned how to fall without hurting yourself.” KnowsKindKidsSchoolUsedFallGirlStuffHurtLaughingComedianHurting Yourself Author:Matthew Perry
“I was pretty much a mess out of primary school. I really experienced a lot more of that stuff from the ages of seven to twelve, where there was a really popular girl at my school, and I was obsessed with her, like you'd go to jail for that stuff today. I'm so embarrassed to say this, but I was in tears one day, because I couldn't sit next to her.” AgeTodaySchoolGirlNextStuffTearsLike YouOne DaySevenMessPrimariesObsessedJailTwelveEmbarrassedPrimary SchoolReally PopularPopular Girl Author:Charlize Theron
“For the last year and a half, I went from being a crazy workout girl to sort of saying, "My body wants a little bit a of break." So I kind of stay with more simple stuff and taking walks and not being neurotic about working out and eating right. I started to enjoy life a little bit more. The only downside to that is there's that couple extra pounds and about 4,000 pregnancy rumors, but you know, other than that, it feels great.” KnowsWantFeelsYearsKindLittlesBodyLastsGirlStuffBitsEnjoySimpleWalksHalfBreakCrazyCoupleEatingLittle BitWork OutExtrasPoundsPregnancyLast YearWorkoutEnjoy LifeRumorNeuroticEating Right Author:Jennifer Aniston
“I remember getting this scrapbook that this girl made, that I actually gave to my mom to hold onto because she has a 'Twilight' shrine in their house in Florida. It was just this scrapbook of me, starting with 'Twilight,' and the whole progression of me and my career throughout that, and other stuff that I had done in between.” MadeDoneWholeRememberGirlHouseStuffCareersMomStartingMy MomTwilightFloridaProgressionThis GirlShrines Author:Ashley Greene
“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.” ChildrenHomeEarthUsedLyingMotherGirlStuffHorribleUsed To BePieBakingGood GirlGood MotherBad GirlBad Mother Author:Annette Bening
“It's easy for me to work with other girls because I'm a tomboy and I don't want the guy, your boyfriend - I'm not interested in looking better than you, so don't worry. Fail or win, whatever it is, I need to go do stuff.” WantNeedsGuyGirlWinningEasyStuffWorryFailingNot InterestedBetter Than YouOther GirlYour Boyfriend Author:Michelle Rodriguez
“I love making down-home Southern cooking, and just chilling out and having cakes and pies and baking stuff, you know. I'm a pretty simple girl.” KnowsHomeGirlStuffSimpleCookingCakeSouthernPieChillBakingLove MakingChilling Out Author:Nicole Scherzinger
“Every snapshot collector has obsessions. Some only collect photos of cars. Others like World War II, or babies, or old-timey girls in old-timey swimsuits. I happen to collect the weird stuff: photos that make the hair on the back of your neck stand up a little. The uncanny.” WorldLittlesWarHappensGirlStuffCarHairBabyObsessionWar Of The WorldsNecksWorld War IiWorld War ICollectorsSnapshotsUncannyWeird StuffSwimsuits Author:Ransom Riggs
“I think I was one of those kids that I might not fight you if you stepped on my shoes or stole my lunch money or that kind of stuff. But if you picked on a girl or something like that, that would cause me to rear up a little bit.” IfsThinkingKindLittlesMightKidsGirlFightingCausesStuffBitsLittle BitShoesLunch Author:Will Shields
“But I know how this romantic stuff works: one girl's perfect guy is another girl's reject. And right now I'm glad of it.” KnowsGuyGirlStuffPerfectKnow HowRight NowGladRejectsAnother GirlPerfect Guy Author:Claire LaZebnik
“I'm totally into Taylor Swift. I think she has super-clever lyrics, and I love that she writes her own music. Some of the themes she writes about are stuff I wish was there for me when I was in high school, and I'm so happy she really cares about her female fans. She's not catering to a male audience and is writing music for other girls.” ThinkingWritingCareSchoolGirlWishStuffAudienceFansHigh SchoolFemaleMalesCleverThemeOther GirlWriting MusicCatering Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Whenever people call me the first female this or that, it doesn't make it more special because no one in front of me wanted the same job. I've always wanted weird stuff and enjoyed things differently than other girls.” PeopleFirstsWantedJobsGirlStuffSpecialFrontsFemaleEnjoyedCall MeOther GirlWeird Stuff Author:Ronda Rousey
“All that stuff about flatness - it's this idea that painting is a specialized discipline and that modernist painting increasingly refers to painting and is refining the laws of painting. But who cares about painting? What we care about is that the planet is heating up, species are disappearing, there's war, and there are beautiful girls here in Brooklyn on the avenue and there's food and flowers.” IdeasWarCareBeautifulLawGirlStuffPaintingPlanetsFlowerDisciplineSpeciesDisappearWho CaresAvenuesBrooklynBeautiful GirlRefiningHeatingFlatnessHeating Up Author:Chris Martin
“I'm not romantic at all, ha ha, I need teaching. The closest I ever came was taking a girl out on her birthday and getting her picked up and dropped off at a hotel. The room was all done up, like with flowers and stuff. But that was a struggle for me!” NeedsDoneGirlStuffRoomsStruggleTeachingFlowerHotelClosest Author:Tinchy Stryder
“I never play all new stuff, because you got to "dance with the girl that brought you" what is that saying? You got to play the songs that got you there, so I love playing the songs from my very first record.” FirstsPlaySongGirlStuffRecordsNew Stuff Author:Mat Kearney
“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
“Kids absolutely not reading. I think it's because they're so screen-oriented [TVs, computers, smartphones]. They do read - girls in particular read a lot. They have a tendency to go toward the paranormal, romances, Twilight and stuff like that. And then it starts to taper off because other things take precedence, like the Kardashian sisters.” ThinkingKidsRomanceGirlReadingStuffParticularTvsComputerScreensTendenciesParanormalTwilightPrecedenceSmartphones Author:Stephen King
“That whole thing about masturbating. Most girls, I guess nobody has to tell them, they just figure it out. I had to be told. Some girl actually had to show me a hairbrush and demonstrate exactly what to do. I just never figured that stuff out naturally.” WholeShowsGirlStuffFiguresShow Me Author:Patti Smith
“You can be distracted by your love life, by the baseball game, movies, by the nonsense. "Can I get my kid into this private school? Can I get this girl to go out with me Saturday night? Am I going to get the promotion in my office?" All this stuff, but in the end the universe burns out. So I think it's completely meaningless.” ThinkingEndsKidsSchoolNightGirlUniverseGamesStuffOfficeBaseballNonsenseLove LifeMeaninglessSaturdayPromotionDistractedSaturday NightBaseball GamesThis GirlBurn OutPrivate School Author:Woody Allen
“Even some rock star girls, which I didn't really know her name. I will probably find out and probably get slaughtered for not knowing her name, but she brought some of her clothes that she used to wear on stage. I wore one of the corsets and stuff. I don't know why I'm blanking. It was not Pat Benatar. It's like Debbie Gibson, Pat Benatar, Joan Jett, I know those girls.” KnowsUsedGirlNamesStarsStuffKnowingRocksStageClothesNot KnowingRock StarCorsets Author:Julianne Hough
“Unfortunately, there's a lot of confusion today over what is sexy and what is vulgar. It's horrifying. They say, 'Oh, that girl is so sexy,' and she turns around and the dress is four sizes too small. Or she's wearing so much stuff, you wonder how long it took her to get ready.” LongTodayTurnsGirlStuffWonderFourReadyDressesSizeSexyConfusionVulgarThat Girl Author:Carolina Herrera
“In lots of books I read, the writer seems to go haywire every time he reaches a high point. He’ll start leaving out punctuation and running his words together and babble about stars flashing and sinking into a deep dreamless sea. And you can’t figure out whether the hero’s laying his girl or a cornerstone. I guess that kind of crap is supposed to be pretty deep stuff—a lot of the book reviewers eat it up, I notice. But the way I see it is, the writer is just too goddam lazy to do his job. And I’m not lazy, whatever else I am. I’ll tell you everything.” WayKindBookSeemsRunningTogetherJobsGirlStarsStuffSeaFiguresHeroLeavingSupposed To BeLazyCrapSinkingCornerstonesPunctuationReviewersHigh PointsBook Review Book:Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s Source: Crime novels: American noir of the 1950s