There’s a girl calm people don’t know about. It’s a girl teen standstill. A motionless peace. It doesn’t come from anywhere but inside us, and it only lasts for a few years. It’s born from...

When you’re a teenager, you want to meet a lot of girls – you want to get the most girls. You don’t know anything about respect; you don’t know anything about being faithful and loyal...

It seemed any young woman at odds with her place in life–be she a genteel lady or a serving girl–might find a happier home within the pages of a book.

Desires are what can most easily ruin us, lovely.

She didn’t struggle and so she didn’t grow

Development is better than Girl-friend

That’s the thing about hands, I love to hold hands because it brings comfort to me to feel I’m holding onto someone I love.

I always wrote; my first story was published in the magazine The American Girl when I was 11.

Do we have a hand mirror?’ I asked from the kitchen doorway.’Never use one,’ said Lester, examining the date on a carton of sour cream.’Naturally, you’re a male. What you see is what you’ve got,’...

The girls show more skin these days, but I think, generally, they behave the same way as when I was growing up.

Like spilled water, once a girl’s reputation is ruined, it will never come back

You can tell when a girl went out of her way to look good.

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a...

There aren’t many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it’s cool if you’re the bad girl.

I think women are concerned too much with their clothes. Men don’t really care that much about women’s clothes. If they like a girl, chances are they’ll like her clothes.

… on the lawn one late summer day, her pale hair tangled because she’d cry if anyone tried to brush it, spinning around and around until she got so dizzy she fell in a pile...

this is how you smile to someone you don’t like too much; this is how you smile to someone you don’t like at all; this is how you smile to someone you like completely; this...

One day, she’d find a way to live her life to the fullest. She was sure of it. She just had no idea how she would manage it.

Certain people want to see me solely as a pop act, but there are many different sides to Christina Aguilera besides the pop girl.

I was in a group called Wild Orchid and it just wasn’t working. I wasn’t being myself. What I should have done was say. ‘Girls, it’s really time for me to go on my own....

A talib fires three shots at point-blank range at three girls in a van and doesn’t kill any of them. This seems an unlikely story.

I think London, New York, Paris, Milan, any big city has its own fashion. I don’t know why they make such a big thing of Paris. I think maybe it comes from French New Wave...

Having kids has been a turning point in my life because when I was still single, all I wanted was to impress beautiful girls.

I enjoy the videos with the sound off, where you can look at the belly buttons and everything. Really some pretty girls, but I don’t know about the music.

I knew when I shot the ‘She Keeps Me Warm’ video that the comments were not going to be homophobic… that they would be about fat-shaming. I’m a large girl making out with somebody. I...

Doing Broadway was always a dream of mine since I was a little girl.

Hearing the Beastie Boys speak out against sexism made me feel like if these men who had once sung about getting girls to ‘do the laundry’ and ‘clean up my room’ could understand, maybe the...

It’s only through sheer force and luck that she’s yet to take over the world.

I don’t think I have a demographic. I was at Comic-Con in San Diego recently, and I was doing a signing, and my line was all military guys, young girls, housewives and guys in wheelchairs....

I don’t believe in email. I’m an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

Celebrity poverty, that’s the hidden scandal in Blair’s Britain. You can’t help but worry for them. A girl I knew developed X-ray eyes for celebrity sorrows. She taught me to read the subtext of the...

Female success stories from sporting events like the Olympic Games have played a role in shifting the Indian perception to see the female athlete as a hero and a role model for young Indian girls.

In my experience, it’s all wonderful with girls until about 16. Around that time, boys kind of calm down and start focusing their testosterone. Girls get a little challenging, especially for fathers.

I’m a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I’m pretty sensitive to that. But I don’t dare say ‘I know how...

I’ve got a running machine which I try and use, but it’s just finding the time. Don’t get me wrong, I love cake and ice cream; I’m the kind of girl that, if I want...

Have the pride of the brown girl and know that you’ll figure out your own beauty in time.

What girls do to each other is beyond description. No chinese torture comes close.

I don’t care to be famous. But at the same time, you look at all the role models these little girls have, and they don’t have anyone to look up to. I mean, it’s weird,...

And it was always the stories that needed the telling that gave us the rope we could cross any river with. They balanced us high above any crevasse. They made us be natural acrobats. They...

The plastic surgery issue is really looming because girls in the U.S. are getting it in their teens.

At some point I was hanging around with the Butchies – a band I ended up playing with a lot – and it just brought out this thing in me… and it felt very different...

It’s been six years since I have had a drink and I have two girls, and my priorities are a lot different now and I just can’t believe I was that guy. And I would...

As a little girl growing up in a small farming town in Michigan, my idols were women like Marlene Dietrich and Rita Hayworth.

It will be interesting to find out something about her that no one else knew.

The girl I used to love is no longer a girl, and this saddens me more than our separation. It puts my own mortality vividly on display, in contrast to my eternally youthful memories.

He always accuses me of trying to look’cool’, I was like, ‘everybody tries to look cool, I just happen to be successful.

Dilip Kumar was the only Bollywood hero who could make a girl shiver just by looking at her. If you don’t believe it, ask your mom!

The worst gift that I ever gave a girl was a suitcase for Christmas. As in, ‘I can’t think of anything to give you, but here’s a new suitcase.’ Afterward, I was like, ‘What were...

My mother’s from Thailand, and they’re very strict about girls in bikinis, but I would love to do a shoot in the floating market in Thailand.

I want everyone to wear what they want and mix it in their own way. That, to me, is what is modern.