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Lloyd Musician
Girl

"Patience is probably the hardest thing I've had to learn in tryin' to love a girl. My lifestyle is very fast-paced; I'm always goin' somewhere, always on stage, and when I perform I perform at a high intensity. Sometimes I carry that energy off of the stage, into my private life. Sometimes I encounter girls who want me to take my time. When you're such a fast-paced, in the fast lane kinda guy, you don't really take the time that's necessary; you're like, "I want it now! If you can't give it to me now, well then." And from that, you end up losin' a lot of great people."

People Giving Girl
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Kurt Vonnegut Novelist, Satirist
Girl

"The little girls were wearing black party dresses and black party shoes, so strangers would know at once how nice they were."

Girl Party Nice
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Hunter S. Thompson Journalist, Author
Girl

"In San Francisco - life goes on. Hope rises and dreams flicker and die. Love plans for tomorrow and loneliness thinks of yesterday. Life is beautiful and living is pain. The sound of music floats down a dark street. A young girl looks out a window and wishes she were married. A drunk sleeps under a bridge. It is tomorrow."

Dream Beautiful Girl
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Girl

"If you dear little girls would only learn what real beauty is, and not pinch and starve and bleach yourselves out so, you'd save an immense deal of time and money and pain. A happy soul in a healthy body makes the best sort of beauty for man or woman."

Real Girl Pain
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Girl

"When Jo's conservative sister Meg says she must turn up her hair now that she is a "young lady," Jo shouts, "I'm not! and if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty.... I hate to think I've got to grow up, and be Miss March, and wear long gowns, and look as prim as a China aster! It's bad enough to be a girl anyway, when I like boys' games and work and manners! I can't get over my disappointment in not being a boy; and it's worse than ever now, for I'm dying to go and fight with Papa, and I can only stay at home and knit, like a poky old woman."

Girl Growing Up Disappointment
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Girl

"...and the most intense desire gave force to her passionate words as the girl glanced despairingly about the dreary room like a caged creature on the point of breaking loose."

Girl Desire Passionate
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Girl

"And when they went away, leaving comfort behind, I think there were not in all the city four merrier people than the hungry little girls who gave away their breakfasts and contented themselves with bread and milk on Christmas morning."

Girl Morning Christmas
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Louisa May Alcott Novelist, Poet
Girl

"At twenty-five, girls begin to talk about being old maids, but secretly resolve that they never will. At thirty, they say nothing about it, but quietly accept the fact."

Girl Marriage Wedding
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Girl

"Girls like you can't understand," Julia said, and it was true. Ellie had been popular. She didn't know that some hurts were like a once-broken bone. In the right weather, they could ache for a lifetime."

Girl Hurt Weather
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Queen Rania of Jordan Queen consort, Philanthropist
Girl

"It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself."

Girl Speak Logic
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e. e. cummings Poet, Painter
Girl

"Your poems are rather hard to understand, whereas your paintings are so easy. Easy? Of course - you paint flowers and girls and sunsets; things that everybody understands. I never met him. Who? Everybody. Did you ever hear of nonrepresentational painting? I am. Pardon me? I am a painter, and painting is nonrepresentational. Not all painting. No: housepainting is representational. And what does a housepainter represent? Ten dollars an hour. In other words, you don't want to be serious - It takes two to be serious."

Life Girl Flower
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D. H. Lawrence Novelist, Poet
Girl

"For, of course, being a girl, one’s whole dignity and meaning in life consisted in the achievement of an absolute, a perfect, a pure and noble freedom. What else did a girl’s life mean?"

Mean Girl Perfect
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Girl

"Girls aren't very good at keeping maps in their brains", said Edmund, "That's because we've got something in them", replied Lucy."

Girl Brain Maps
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Girl

"That's the worst of girls," said Edmund to Peter and the Dwarf. "They never can carry a map in their heads." "That's because our heads have something inside them," said Lucy."

Girl Maps Dwarves
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Girl

"We thought the Duke would have been pleased if the King's Majesty would have married his daughter, but nothing came of that--' Squints, and has freckles,' said Caspian. Oh, poor girl,' said Lucy."

Girl Kings Daughter
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Girl

"And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope."

Girl Cutting Gentleman
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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
Girl

"For in Calormen, story-telling (whether the stories are true or made up) is a thing you're taught, just as English boys and girls are taught essay-writing. The difference is that people want to hear the stories, whereas I never heard of anyone who wanted to read the essays."

Writing Girl Boys
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