Girlhood Quotes
16 Girlhood quotes by 14 unique authors
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Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold…
— Vincent Canby
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My most prized possession was my lanyard of Lip Smackers I tore it out of the confines of the paper package, which read “all the…
— Janet Mock
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To all the world he was the man of violence, half animal and half demon; but to her he always remained the little wilful boy…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Womanhood is a whole different thing from girlhood. Girlhood is a gift...Womanhood is a choice.
— Tori Amos
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Girls especially are fond of exchanging confidences with those whom they think they can trust; it is one of the most charming traits of a…
— Lucy Larcom
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'We Were the Mulvaneys' is perhaps the novel closest to my heart. I think of it as a valentine to a passing way of American…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Did she ever feel nostalgia for any of her girlhood dreams? But life was made up of a succession of dreams, some few to be…
— Mary Balogh
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Her thoughts ran away to her girlhood with its passionate longing for adventure and she remembered the arms of men that had held her when…
— Sherwood Anderson
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I'm drawn to write about upstate New York in the way in which a dreamer might have recurring dreams. My childhood and girlhood were spent…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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I do what I want to do. It was a brash statement of(her)girlhood. Now she was an adult, the boast seemed quaint. For rarely do…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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Part of the racialized sexism wants everyone to think that a 15-year old Mexican is not a girl, she’s a woman. We know she’s a…
— Bell Hooks
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The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so anxious…
— Louisa May Alcott
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She knew herself, how she had slowly, over years, become a cat, a wolf, a snake, anything but a girl. How she had wrung out…
— Catherynne M. Valente
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After spending all of her girlhood fervently wishing she could run away from home— she’d actually done it.
— Tessa Dare
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Wil Wheaton, Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes were all the early formidable crushes of my girlhood.
— Autumn Reeser
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I had absolute freedom to create things on my own and in silence. No rush, the artificial rush by media. Certainly no rush to grow…
— Barry Hannah
Who Wrote These Girlhood Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 16 Girlhood Quotes as follows: