Top 100 Girls Can Quotes
#1. Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.
Ian McEwan
#2. It is a mystery to civilized men how lost boys and girls can adapt to life in the wild, but children are capable of a great deal more than men give them credit for.
Christopher Daniel Mechling
#3. But then there she is, on her own, chewing gum, pulling her hair back with one hand and getting her MetroCard out with the other. Girls can do so much at once.
Alyssa B. Sheinmel
#4. Using the word 'bossy' for girls can be quite harmful. What is that saying - that being focused, being assertive, being the boss has a negative attribute? And I have heard that term associated more with women than with men. 'He's so bossy' - you don't hear that. It's a very subtle thing.
Bryce Dallas Howard
#5. Shopping is a great way to bond with the girls, but it definitely makes us focus on our bodies and compare ourselves to others. Something that should be a fun outing with the girls can turn into an uncomfortable experience.
Katherine Schwarzenegger
#6. If dogs can smell fear, girls can smell nervousness, that was my experience. From
Karl Ove Knausgard
#7. What am I going to do?" asked Ce'Nedra.
"First you ought to go wash your face," Polgara told her. "Some girls can cry without making themselves ugly, but you don't have the right coloring for it. You're an absolute fright. I'd advise you never to cry in public if you can help it.
David Eddings
#8. I guess even smart girls can make a clusterfuck of their lives, can't they?
K.A. Tucker
#9. I will shut down Instagram so girls can't use filters into tricking us that they are that pretty; you're eyes aren't that blue, and you don't glow.
Daniel Tosh
#10. What we've seen of Rey, she looks like she can handle her stuff. So most of the comments I get are from parents who say how wonderful it is that their little girls can see this character.
Daisy Ridley
#11. For little boys are rancorous
When robbed of any myth,
And spiteful and cantankerous
To all their kin and kith.
But little girls can draw conclusions
And profit from their lost illusions.
Phyllis McGinley
#12. Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities ... and can actually benefit boys, because girls are the mothers of boys.
Soledad O'Brien
#13. I am proud to be a girl, and I know that girls can change the world,
Malala Yousafzai
#14. I smiled at him, "It's okay, boys can be dumb."
Alex smirked, "Yeah, and girls can drive you crazy.
Joanne McClean
#15. People tend to box little girls in. They teach them to sit properly and stand quietly and not attract attention. Sports is one place where girls can be free and enjoy the exhilaration of movement.
Tenley Albright
#16. Some girls can skate but I personally believe that skateboarding is not for girls at all. Not one bit.
Nyjah Huston
#17. Women and girls can do whatever they want. There is no limit to what we as women can accomplish.
Michelle Obama
#18. Ducks and geese are foolish things, and must be looked after, but girls can take care of themselves.
Washington Irving
#19. Girls can fake orgasms, but boys can fake love.
Daniel Tosh
#20. I think that it's our responsibility to create a world in which girls can grow up and not have to limit their dreams or possibilities.
Zooey Deschanel
#21. The thing is, I want to play real characters and not all girls can be pretty. The thing is, you get these girls who say 'I'm a character actor' then you see them in a role and nothing has really changed but the outfit.
Juliette Lewis
#22. Maybe you can explain to me what is so spectacular about her, because you gay girls can't seem to keep your hands off that daffy redhead.
Cassandra Duffy
#23. I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world.
Ban Ki-moon
#24. CoverGirl's Girls CAN movement is perfectly aligned with my passion for helping young women overcome life's challenges, and my commitment to highlighting girls' successes. I am thrilled to partner with CoverGirl to embark on this exciting journey to improve the lives of girls and women in the world.
Soledad O'Brien
#25. Why you can't trust women. Even young girls. Can't know what the fuck they are thinking, can't know what they are feeling, can't know how they will surprise you except to know it won't be a surprise you will like.
Joyce Carol Oates
#26. We girls can sometimes be like wild animals, able to sniff out the strongest among us.
Jenny B. Jones
#27. Girls can do everything men can do ... just backwards and in heels
Ginger Rogers
#28. Im not a lesbian, I just appreciate the fact that girls can be just as hot as guys.
Lauren Jauregui
#29. screw that gender essentialism bullshit, men have as much of a right to care about clothes as women. Girls can like sports and cars and guns. So why does it even matter if you identify as a girl, a boy or as neither?
I. W. Gregorio
#30. One of the biggest mistakes girls can make concerning their romantic life is sitting around waiting for their prince to find them, rather than getting out there and finding him themselves.
Meg Cabot
#31. I think too often we forget that girls can like sport; we are not biologically programmed to detest it, we are - in the main - conditioned against it. But shouldn't we try to change that?
Anna Kessel
#32. Faviana is a line that girls can feel super-glamorous in. A lot of their designs are kind of based off of what celebrities wear on the red carpet!
Ashley Benson
#33. Boys can't be stewardesses, and girls can't be pilots.
Tim Dorsey
#34. I'm just glad we live in a world where girls can play soldiers.
Taylor Swift
#35. If girls can be anything, let them be anything.
This is a book for any girl who ever felt she didn't fit in. You are not alone. You come from a long line of bold, strong, fearless women. Glory in that.
This is a book for anyone who ever underestimated a girl.
Jason Porath
#36. Girls can be so petty and jealous. I swear they're worse than guys sometimes. Except they're all quiet about it. They sugarcoat it or else they talk behind each other's backs. It's seriously twisted.
Melody Carlson
#37. I'm not a teddy bear that girls can clutch. I'm sharp and hard, the thing that braces a girl to the bed, the one who grips her strongly and whispers with a husky, edged voice. I'm as rough on the outside as I am black on the inside.
Krista Ritchie
#38. I have a Web site that parents and girls can use to learn about Title IX and take action if they find their school is not in compliance. Thirty years after Title IX passed, 80 percent of schools are not in compliance.
Geena Davis
#39. People expected 'Jennifer's Body' to make so much money. But I was doubtful. The movie is about a man-eating, cannibalistic lesbian cheerleader, and that pretty much eliminates middle America. It's obviously a girl-power movie, but it's also about how scary girls are. Girls can be a nightmare.
Megan Fox
#40. What can I say? I'm obsessed. And as we all know obsessed girls can't be held responsible for our actions.
Ann Brashares
#41. Plus-size girls can look to the Plus-Size Fashion Weekends and feel like it's special - it's something for them and for their bodies.
Hayley Hasselhoff
#42. Boys and girls can be friends. It's not weird. They're a person and they can be your best friend in the whole world.
AnnaSophia Robb
#43. Girls can be athletic. Guys can have feelings. Girls can be smart. Guys can be creative. And vice versa. Gender is specific only to your reproductive organs (and sometimes not even to those), not your interest, likes, dislikes, goals, and ambitions.
Connor Franta
#44. Peter groaned loudly. "Sonia Pan! She's ugly."
Mris. Liang would not yield. "Ugly girls can be fixed now. It is not like before. And she is very good. She does not waste money."
"It would be no use for her to waste money on herself," Louise murmured.
Pearl S. Buck
#45. The rivalry between the Montague and the Capulet kids seems very modern to me. Juliet is a free spirit, full of untapped love and passion. I think a lot of girls can relate to her. And it's very relevant in terms of kids defying their parents.
Hailee Steinfeld
#47. I don't want to be nice. Nice girls can only get what they're offered.
Azealia Banks
#48. I was surprised and mawkishly heartbroken. I am always moved by that seldom-used treasure, the sweetness with which most girls can sing.
Kurt Vonnegut
#49. About how guys and girls can't ever really be just friends. I mean, how many times do I make friends with girls just to see if I want to date them?
Aimee L. Salter
#50. I have seen what a handful of girls can do. They can hold back an army if necessary, so please don't tell me it isn't possible.
Libba Bray
#51. Girls can fight with swords, too. Sometimes, even better than men can. They just have to want it badly enough that they're willing to work harder at it.
Nenia Campbell
#52. Liberal moms like soccer because it's a sport in which athletic talent finds so little expression that girls can play with boys. No serious sport is co-ed, even at the kindergarten level.
Ann Coulter
#53. The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.
Jennifer Fox
#54. And in your deranged mind, what do you think the lesson of 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' is?" Alex challenged him. "Easy," Conner said. "Lock your doors! Robbers come in all shapes and sizes. Even curly-haired little girls can't be trusted." Alex grunted again and crossed her arms.
Chris Colfer
#55. Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
Daisy Ridley
#57. I would like to be somebody young people, young girls, can look up to.
Tori Kelly
#58. My little girls can break my heart. They can make me cry just looking at them eating their string beans.
Barack Obama
#59. The reason girls can't find a good guy is because they look in the wrong places. Go to a library. Guys at a party are just looking for the next girl to fuck.
Brandon Hall
#60. She's pretty. (It's amazing how girls can say this and make it the most withering insult.)
Ned Vizzini
#61. Girls can do anything. We do do anything and we expect to be treated as equals.
Helen Clark
#62. So, as I was saying, guys and girls can be friends.
Best friends.
And what's better than falling in love with your best friend?
Nothing.
Elizabeth Eulberg
#63. We need to move beyond the idea that girls can be leaders and create the expectation that they should be leaders.
Condoleezza Rice
#64. When you're a very career-oriented woman, sometimes you don't have as much time to go meet all kinds of guys. You're a little bit limited to the guys that work in your office. I think a lot of girls can relate to that problem.
Piper Perabo
#65. When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.
Jennie Finch
#66. Girls can do anything boys can do in high heels!
Brooke Sachau
#67. Before going home with a guy, give him a blow job. Guys are always more relaxed after a blow job. (You're totally welcome, guys. P.S. Girls can't see this sentence!!!!!)
Eugene Mirman
#68. Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.
Lorde
#69. There's such a stigma around girls' periods, and women's sexuality - girls can't speak out for themselves or be who they want to be. I think that coming from the social platform that I have, I try to be a positive influence, and this was something that I felt needed to be seen and heard.
Chloe Grace Moretz
#70. I'm used to always being different, in any context. People always want to know how I grew up, so I just say I grew up Muslim. That's the truth. Two Muslim girls can write me two extremely different letters - and they do. Some are very supportive, and some question what I do.
Noureen DeWulf
#71. Girls can wear jeans, cut their hair short, wear shirts and boots, 'cause it's okay to be a boy, but for a boy to look like a girl is degrading.
Charlotte Gainsbourg
#72. I tell about some of the female characters from the Bible so girls can be inspired and empowered and uplifted.
Roma Downey
#73. The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.
Ellen Swallow Richards
#74. I've always got on better with boys. Most of my friends are boys. Like, if I have children, I want five boys. Boys love their mothers whereas girls can be so mean to each other.
Adele
#75. Girls who wear certain kind of dresses, who show certain areas of the body, are not going to like my clothes. You can't please everyone.
Prabal Gurung
#76. I'm too young for a man, but I'm too old for a boy. So, can't we just pretend, that I'm older than I really am, but then, only little girls pretend.
Tori Amos
#77. You can play jacks, and girls do that with a soft ball and do tricks with it. Oh, Oh, dog Biscuit, and when he is happy he doesn't get snappy.
Dutch Schultz
#78. You can put the girl in a relationship ... ," I began, putting my arm around her. "But you can't take the boy-crazy out of the girl," Cassie finished.
Jocelyn Davies
#79. American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture's emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls' vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior.
Peggy Orenstein
#80. Boys can just wear a suit on the red carpet and that's fine, but for girls it's all about the way you look, and there are constant comparisons.
Maisie Williams
#81. Here's a question I still can't answer: Did I see through the male tricks because I was destined to scheme that way myself? Or do girls see through the tricks, too, and just pretend not to notice?
Jeffrey Eugenides
#82. We were girls once. As hard as that is to believe. //Oh you can't see it now--our bodies have stretched and sagged, faces and necks drooping. That's what happens when you get old. Every part of you drops, as if the body is moving closer to where it's from and where it'll return.
Brit Bennett
#83. I was let go after one of the doughnut girls caught me debating the varying merits of the free toys with a four-year-old. What can I say? She was a smart four-year-old. I also thought the Sleeping Beautys were sappy.
Jojo Moyes
#84. I like the idea that I can talk to any teenage girls. You know, in a language that makes sense to them.
Louise Rennison
#85. It was a real honor for me to get to be the first woman astronaut. I think it's really important that young girls that are growing up today can see that women can be astronauts too. There have actually been a lot of women, who are astronauts, that that's a career that's open to them.
Sally Ride
#86. You know a lot of times you'll find girls in a club are jaded to the other girls in the club. There's a nasty vibe between the chicks in the club. It's like a pretty girl can't look at another pretty girl and say Wow she's pretty.
Willa Ford
#87. I'm sorry that people are so jealous of me, but I can't help it that I'm popular.
Regina George
#88. I shall have to toil and moil all my days, with only little bits of fun now and then, and get old and ugly and sour, because I'm poor, and can't enjoy my life as other girls do. It's a shame!
Louisa May Alcott
#89. How long till our powers are back? (Kat)
A few hours according to last time. (Sin)
Sweet, and we have how long till the bitches awake? (Kat)
Less than two. (Sin)
Can you say screwed, boys and girls? Yes, I thought you could. (Kat)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#90. I've said this a lot - I'm afraid to have girls! I've worked with kids before, and I just relate to boys better. I like their competitiveness and aggression: that's more my style. I'm still dead set on doing whatever I can to make sure I only have boys!
Derek Theler
#91. I know most sisters don't get along, but I'm closer to Margot than I am to anybody in the world. How can we be the Song girls without Margot?
Jenny Han
#92. I think it shows that you are a confident person if you can walk up to a group of girls and just be able to talk to them sober.
Georgia Salpa
#93. I told my girls, 'Look at Rihanna: She's one of the biggest pop stars in the world. She's really famous, really powerful, really rich. Yet in every single video she can only wear panties. Poor Rhianna! We'll know when she is properly powerful and successful when we see her in a lovely cardigan.'
Caitlin Moran
#94. Parents who work outside the home are still capable of giving their children a loving and secure childhood. Some data even suggest that having two parents working outside the home can be advantageous to a child's development, particularly for girls.
Sheryl Sandberg
#95. I'm one of those people who was meant to have a very ordinary life. I have no special talent, no great beauty, nothing that distinguishes me from a hundred, thousand other girls. But I can't go through an entire lifetime without at least one night of magic.
Lisa Kleypas
#96. 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.
C.S. Lewis
#97. I don't know, it's odd that girls ask if they can hug me. Don't ask, do it. I'm just a regular guy
Niall Horan
#98. Why have a model on the front of your magazine when you can have Kate Winslet, Cate Blanchett or Hilary Swank? Because those girls are intelligent and talented, people are interested.
Milla Jovovich
#99. Girl Guiding and Girl Scouting can be the magic thread which links the girls of the world together.
Juliette Gordon Low
#100. Girls are always complaining that they can never meet a nice guy. Nice guys are everywhere. The problem isn't that there aren't any nice guys, the problem is that all of the nice guys are ugly.
Carroll Bryant
