I’d do anything for you, Tessa. I know you don’t realize that now, but you will.

That’s No Ordinary Girl Ponytail (Short Story)

A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement

Tears are the biggest weapon used by every girl against the boys with a success rate of hundred percent.

I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn’t sexual with. I think having...

I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It’s too easy to create a good guy or...

I love watching old sitcoms. It’s very inspiring to watch ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ and ‘Golden Girls.’ I have watched them over and over again for years.

I don’t mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else’s object.

I feel like ‘Gossip Girl’ isn’t really ‘Gossip Girl’ anymore when they’re away at school because they don’t go to NYU; they go to, like, Yale and Brown. New York City is just as much...

The primary feature of women is not a ‘beauty’, it’s a ‘mystery’.

For a girl there is a shorter version of youth.

If a girl is stupid enough to love you after you broke her heart, I guarantee you, she is the one.

I don’t have a model’s body. But I’m not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they’re fat. I’m okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?

When I was a young boy, I preferred cats to dogs. From the age of seven or eight onwards I just felt more comfortable with cats. And I felt more comfortable with girls, I didn’t...

He was the kind of boy any young girl should date while she’s still able to recover.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

I’m beginning to get pigeonholed as the girl who plays the crazies and weirdoes – and that’s not the entirety of who I am. Hopefully, the whole point of being in this profession is that...

With God’s help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.

The industry is quite chauvinistic generally. Expectations of women, girls, what they should look like, how they should be, what they should say, what they should wear, how their hair should be, what colour their...

I was a girl in a land where rifles are fired in celebration of a son, while daughters are hidden away behind a curtain, their role in life simply to prepare food and give birth...

My playground was the theatre. I’d sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl, that’s pretty seductive.

Es más fácil ocultar una espinilla en la punta de la nariz, que el amor.

Girls are so queer you never know what they mean. They say No when they mean Yes, and drive a man out of his wits for the fun of it.

Bike lanes are the coolest. My favorite past time is flipping off cars from my bicycle. Just kidding – I’m more of a silent resentment kind of girl.

I was a big shiny, glittery-type person. Now I’m a jeans and T-shirt girl, or I’ll wear sun dresses and cowboy boots in the summer. But at first I had to have stylists tell me,...

I have always had this secret fantasy of being a Bourne girl or Bond girl, and I’ve never even gotten called in on one of those roles.

The problem with magic was that it made her feel very alone.

Girl Without HandsWalking through the ruinson your way to workthat do not look like ruinswith the sunlight pouring overthe seen worldlike hail or meltedsilver, that brightand magnificent, each leafand stone quickened and specific in it,and...

We have to join hands and fight against female infanticide, when life is snuffed out the minute people find out it is a girl.

She walked with a ghost of herself, one full of potential and possibility. One who was fearless. Where had that girl gone?

What would it be like to hold a different girl?

When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.

I was in a relationship with a girl I loved for three years. Where do you go after three years? Then you’ve got to start thinking about other things, and I’m too young to think...

I like me Italian girls; half Halle Berry, half Penelope Cruz sort of thing!

My first published book, ‘Story of a Girl’, was the fourth book I wrote.

I’m turning you into a girlchasing a butterfly, a she-wolfon a hilltop, & then back into a woman.

A woman’s destiny, they say, is not fulfilled until she holds in her arms her own little book.

Girls were always my biggest distraction in school.

There is strong. There is Army Strong. And then there is Army Wife Strong.

I’ve always wanted to make sure people are okay, ever since I was a little girl.

Six months ago, I traveled to India to see firsthand what the prime minister of that country calls a national shame. It is the systematic, widespread, shocking elimination of India’s baby girls. Some 50,000 female...

You’re a brave, brave girl, Tula” Gaby told her.”I know”, said the little girl. “I got it from you.

I was seen spotted with an older woman and a girl half my height in age. A leopard was also spotted.

Believe me, I may be a bit blasé, but I can still get any man I want.

The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.

I love the smell of shampoo on a girl’s hair. You can walk past someone and be like, ‘Wow, you took a shower this morning, didn’t you? Because you smell lovely.’

I’m not much for parties. Sometimes you have to wear a funny hat, sometimes they expect you to eat sushi, which is like eating bait. And there’s always some totally drunk girl who thinks you’re...

I know now that what countries do at summits has the power to help girls in Pakistan, Nigeria or Afghanistan.

Each of my books has taken me a different length of time to write – eight months for ‘Seesaw Girl,’ eight months for ‘Shard,’ three years for ‘When My Name Was Keoko!’ The publisher takes...

Hello, my name is Lisa Jakub. But most people in a restaurant/dentist’s office/yoga studio dressing room, call me ‘Hey, you look like that girl from ‘Mrs. Doubtfire’/’Independence Day’/’Rambling Rose.’ There is a good reason for...