Girl Genius Quotes

#1. Let us tell our legislators in advance, that this is a right, restraints on which, we will not, cannot bear; and that every attempt to restrain it is a palpable wrong on God and man.

Gerrit Smith

#2. You say a new era in art is preparing; you sensed it coming; continue your studies without weakening. God will do the rest.

Paul Cezanne

#3. You cannot demonstrate an emotion or prove an aspiration.

John Morley

#4. I'm not a girl. I'm a genius.

Joanna Russ

#5. Dreams are like portraits; and we find they please because they are confessed resemblances.

George Crabbe

#6. If we are going to out-innovate, out-compete, out-educate other countries, it's going to be women who make a difference, it's women who are going to lead the way and you know, until women get that rightful place and decision making and leadership and growth, America won't realize all her potential.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#7. David Lynch came out of it a genius, and I came out of it a fat girl. I'm sorry that the only comment I get about the part is the way I look. Commenting on the critics' response to her performance in Blue Velvet

Isabella Rossellini

#8. What is a Gallagher Girl?
She's a genius, a scientist, a heroine, a spy ... a Gallagher Girl is whatever she wants to be.

Ally Carter

#9. You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

Mary MacLane

#10. People say i am a genius. I might be one but i am not the only one. There are many other Pakistani girls and boys like me. All those gems need, is a little bit of polishing. And I will do it. That's my aim

Arfa Karim

#11. Any plan where you lose your hat is a bad plan.

Phil Foglio

#12. Agatha Clay: "I've never had coffee. Lilith said a young lady shouldn't drink stimulants."
Zeetha: "Drink your coffee like a warrior."
Agatha Clay: "...Yes, Zeetha.

Phil Foglio

#13. But strange though it may seem, the more he judged, and the more he realized that men feared and acknowledged his right to judge, the more his innermost soul questioned man's right to judgment of any kind.

Lev Shestov

#14. A girl who is told repeatedly that she's no genius ends up winning an award for being one. The

Angela Duckworth

#15. My songs are not pretty. They're what I call optimistic realism.

Laura Marling

#16. A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive.

Gloria Steinem

#17. In other words, I would be giving in to a myth of sameness which I think can destroy us.

Audre Lorde

#18. Stroll around and look sexy, ask annoying questions, in general get on everyone's nerves. All those things that come naturally to you.

Janet Evanovich

#19. When a man says to me, "I have the intensest love of nature," at once I know that he has none.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. For a genius thief you really are a stupid girl aren't you?

Ally Carter

#21. ...no genius, I am a girl who knows too much to know anything at all...

Lauren Groff

#22. You are not a woman. You may try-but you can never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you and yet to suffer the slavery of being a girl.

George Eliot

#23. It is poor faith that needs fair weather for standing firm. That alone is true faith that stands the foulest weather.

Mahatma Gandhi

#24. My girl was mad and I loved her. Upon a night, she read my poetry; and kissing me madly she cried, 'You are a genius, my love!' To which I replied, 'My girl,' whispering, 'Every doctor in this land with a prescription pad is more of a genius than I.

Roman Payne

#25. My one friend is a screwup - a genius blessed with the most beautiful girl in the world, and he doesn't even know it.

Ned Vizzini

#26. She bent over me again. Blood began to move around in me, like a prospective tenant looking over a house.

Raymond Chandler