“You think once you've shown what you can do, and your movies have been successful, that snap, you work. So to discover the difference between guys' roles and girls' roles made me plain mad. It's unjust.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeGuyGirlCan DoDifferencesRolesSuccessfulMadUnjustSnaps Author:Connie Nielsen
“Since 1996, the Feminist Majority Foundation has been immersed in a campaign to support Afghan women and girls in their fight against the brutal oppression of the Taliban.” Has BeensGirlFightingSupportFoundationMajorityFeministCampaignsOppressionBrutalTalibanAfghan Author:Eleanor Smeal
“My sister Jennifer is an Emmy winning journalist and mother of three amazing girls. She brings an exceptional dedication to her job, her family, and her community, and has been a role model of mine for many, many years. I'm extremely proud of her.” YearsHas BeensJobsMotherGirlThreeWinningCommunityRolesMinesProudModelsJournalistRole ModelsMy SisterDedicationExceptionalJenniferEmmys Author:Ron Livingston
“To go from Girl, Interrupted, where I had to cry every day, to a TV show like West Wing where I get to laugh and joke around every day, has been a welcome relief.” Has BeensShowsGirlLaughingCryTvsJokesWingsWestWelcomeReliefTv ShowsInterruptedGirl Interrupted Author:Elisabeth Moss
“I auditioned for 'Girls' the fall after I graduated from Yale. The show has been amazing - as close to perfect as it gets!” Has BeensShowsFallGirlPerfectYale Author:Allison Williams
“What a horrible feeling that is, to know that if the disease [AIDS] had primarily affected PTA presidents, or priests, or white teenage girls, the epidemic would have been ended years earlier, and tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands of lives would have been saved.” IfsKnowsYearsHas BeensFeelingsGirlPresidentWhiteDiseaseAidsSavedHorriblePriestsAffectedTeenageEpidemicsTeenage GirlPta Author:David Levithan
“Plagiarism has been around far longer than the Internet. In fact, I had a poem published in 'Seventeen' magazine when I was 15 years old. About a year later I was informed that there was a girl who used that same poem to win a statewide poetry competition in Alabama. It took months for people to put together that this had happened.” PeopleYearsHas BeensFactsTogetherUsedGirlWinningHappenedMonthsInternetCompetitionMagazinesSeventeenAlabamaPlagiarism Author:Megan McCafferty
“I have been incredibly privileged with my roles - after all I have had the chance to do some fantastic fun acting such as the Spice Girls Movie - who can ever forget that!” Has BeensGirlFunChanceForgetActingRolesFantasticPrivilegedSpicesSpice Girls Author:Richard E. Grant
“Had I not had my grandmother, who dared to be my rainbow in the clouds, I would have been just another sexually abused barefoot black girl on the roads of Arkansas.” Has BeensGirlBlackCloudsGrandmotherRainbowMy GrandmotherSexuallyBarefootArkansasBlack Girl Author:Maya Angelou
“I think the main big thing for me has been the acceptance from the U.S. That's still crazy to me. To come over to the U.S. and be a British girl and have all these people know who I am. It's unbelievable and it just seems to be getting better and better.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHas BeensStillsBigsSeemsGirlCrazyAcceptanceBritishWho I AmGet BetterUnbelievableBig Things Author:Cher Lloyd
“When I was a kid I would much rather have been a good baseball player or a hit with the girls, but I couldn't play ball. I couldn't dance. Luckily, the girls didn't want me. Not much I could do about that. So I started to draw and to write By the time I got to where I was attracting girls, I was already into work, and it was more important to me. Not that I wouldn't rather make love, but the work has become a habit.” WantWritingHas BeensImportantPlayKidsGirlPlayerHabitDrawsBaseballBallsWant MeMaking LoveBaseball PlayerGood Baseball Author:Shel Silverstein
“As an artist, I try and be controversial, and I have been a bit offensive at times. I have a view on the burka, and I'm sure a few of the Muslim girls and their families would have a view of me on stage in next to nothing!” TryingHas BeensArtistGirlNextBitsViewsStageOffensiveControversial Author:Jessie J
“I met Jack Kennedy in November, 1946... We went out on a double date and it turned out to be a fair evening for me. I seduced a girl who would have been bored by a diamond as big as the Ritz.” Has BeensBigsGirlMetsFairsEveningBoredDiamondNovemberRitzJack Kennedy Author:Norman Mailer