"I stopped looking for a Dream Girl, I just wanted one that wasn't a nightmare."
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"It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen."
"I may be known as the girl who was sunbathing topless with a Prince but Jordan is known as that thick girl who always falls out of clubs drunk. I know which one I prefer."
"Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles."
"If you feel your value lies in being merely decorative, I fear that someday you might find yourself believing that’s all that you really are. Time erodes all such beauty, but what it cannot diminish is the wonderful workings of your mind: Your humor, your kindness, and your moral courage. These are the things I cherish so in you. I so wish I could give my girls a more just world. But I know you’ll make it a better place." -- Marmee, Little Women"
"I know I'm no glamour girl, and it's not easy for me to get up in front of a crowd of people. It used to bother me a lot, but now I've got it figured out that God gave me this talent to use, so I just stand there and sing."
"I'm not saying girls are perfect, because we all know that's not true. But why be unfaithful to her if she was true to you."
"A girl does not need anyone who does not need her."
"You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff."
"You can't turn a bad girl good, but once a good girls' gone bad, she's gone forever."
"Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good."
"Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them."
"When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me."
"The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons."
"I look just like the girls next door... if you happen to live next door to an amusement park."
"a girl takes too much time to love and a few seconds to hate. but a boy takes a few seconds to love and too much time to hate."
"Society has put up so many boundaries, so many limitations on what’s right and wrong that it’s almost impossible to get a pure thought out. It’s like a little kid, a little boy, looking at colors, and no one told him what colors are good, before somebody tells you you shouldn’t like pink because that’s for girls, or you’d instantly become a gay two-year-old. Why would anyone pick blue over pink? Pink is obviously a better color. Everyone’s born confident, and everything’s taken away from you."
"It's silly when girls sell their souls because it's in."
"She wasn't doing a thing that I could see, except standing there leaning on the balcony railing, holding the universe together."
"I prefer ordinary girls - you know, college students, waitresses, that sort of thing. Most of the girls I go out with are just good friends. Just because I go out to the cinema with a girl, it doesn't mean we are dating."