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"[Mahatma Gandhi] said that the first president of India ought to be a harijan girl, an untouchable. He was so against the class system and the oppression of women that an untouchable woman became for him the epitome of purity and benediction."
"Every girl should have a little black dress, a great boyfriend blazer and a pair of skinny jeans in their wardrobe."
"We are in effect enculturating kids from the very beginning to see women and girls as not taking up half of the space."
"I'm so loud, as if I know what I'm on about, but deep inside, I'm so insecure. Just a little girl."
"I used to flirt with girls just to get the guys circling around us. I'm getting out of it now. I have to look after my reputation."
"When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent."
"With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them."
"It is no sin to look at a nice girl."
"I have four kids; three girls and a boy. The oldest girl is 13, and has her own social life now, so there's a bit of begrudging cooperation there. It's tough."
"Fame is not the worst thing. I went to dinner the other night, and the girls in the restaurant ignored me. It was so annoying."
"It's sad when girls think they don't have anything going on except being pretty."
"Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book."
"I don't want my girl to be so skinny she can knife me with her knee."
"The society girl meets more dangers than the girl on the stage. There is more danger at a tango tea than in the theatre. The actor is less dangerous than the dancing master."
"Next to being married, a girl likes to be crossed in love a little now and then."
"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive."
"Photo shoots for underage girls are like letting an ant walk around with honey."
"I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV. . . . I think when it comes to the media, the media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows and picking up how to talk and how to be cool, so then all of a sudden being funny is making fun of the girl who's wearing an ugly dress."
"I wasn't pretty enough to play the popular girl, I wasn't mousy enough to be the mousy girl, so I never fit in. And so I'd get close, but I never got anywhere, and it was really painful."
"A girl never can predict who might wander into her boudoir during a bubble bath."
