Quotations About / On: GIRL

  • 41.
    Sex education is legitimate in that girls cannot be taught soon enough how children don't come into the world.
    (Karl Kraus (1874-1936), Austrian writer. Trans. by Harry Zohn, originally published in Beim Wort genommen (1955). Half-Truths and One-and-a-Half Truths, University of Chicago Press (1990).)
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  • 42.
    In Westerns you were permitted to kiss your horse but never your girl.
    (Gary Cooper (1901-1961), U.S. screen actor. "Well, It Was This Way," Saturday Evening Post (New York, March 17, 1958).)
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  • 43.
    My first debate in high school—"Resolved: Girls are no good"—and I won!
    (Donald Freed, U.S. screenwriter, and Arnold M. Stone. Robert Altman. Richard Nixon (Philip Baker Hall), Secret Honor (1984). Fictional play based on Richard Nixon.)
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  • 44.
    Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.
    (George Axelrod (1922), screenwriter. Holly Golightly (Audrey Hepburn), Breakfast At Tiffany's (1961).)
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  • 45.
    Killers, huh? I'd trade the pair of you for a good Camp Fire Girl.
    (Daniel Taradash (b. 1913), U.S. screenwriter. Sergeant Warden (Burt Lancaster), From Here To Eternity, after preventing a fight between Maggio (Frank Sinatra) and Fatso (Ernest Borgnine) (1953).)
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  • 46.
    The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.
    (George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. (First produced, in German, 1913). Eliza Doolittle, in Pygmalion, act 5, The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972).)
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  • 47.
    I constantly felt (as I suppose many an ambitious girl has felt) a thumping from within unanswered by any beckoning from without.
    (Anna Julia Cooper (1859-1964), U.S. educator and feminist. A Voice from the South, part 1 (1892). Of her frustration as a young student in a school offering inadequate intellectual stimulation. Cooper, the daughter of a former slave, would become a teacher and, at age 67, the fourth African American woman to earn a Ph.D. (at the University of Paris).)
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  • 48.
    The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.
    (Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), Austrian psychiatrist. repr. in Complete Works, vol. 22, eds. James Strachey and Anna Freud (1964). "The Dissection of the Psychical Personality," lecture 31, New Introductory Lectures on Psychoanalysis (1933). Freud was refuting the claims of "Individual Psychologists" that the "inferiority complex" can be traced back to self- perceived organic defects.)
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  • 49.
    When you see what some girls marry, you realize how they must hate to work for a living.
    (Helen Rowland (1875-1950), U.S. journalist. Reflections of a Bachelor Girl, p. 45, ed. Paul and Stanley (1909).)
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  • 50.
    Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life!
    (Muriel Spark (b. 1918), British novelist. Miss Brodie, in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, ch. 1 (1961).)
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