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Girls Quotes by Margaret Atwood
- Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
- Modesty is invisibility... Never forget it. To be seen - to be seen - is to be... penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
- When I finally went to school I had to adjust to other girls and learn their fiendish ways. Having learnt them, I turned them on…
- Most mothers worry when their daughters reach adolescence but I was the opposite. I relaxed, I sighed with relief. Little girls are cute and small…
- I have periods now, like normal girls; I too am among the knowing, I too can sit out volleyball games and go to the nurse's…
- Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to…
- Pink is supposed to weaken your enemies, make them go soft on you, which must be why it's used for baby girls. It's a wonder…
- Never mind. Point being that you don't have to get too worked up about us, dear educated minds. You don't have to think of us…
- I’m not used to girls, or familiar with their customs. I feel awkward around them, I don’t know what to say. I know the unspoken…
- The Three of them were beautiful, in the way all girls of that age are beautiful. It can't be helped, that sort of beauty, nor…
- She even had a kind of special position among men: she was an exception, she fitted none of the categories they commonly used when talking…
- Modesty is invisibility...Never forget it. To be seento be seenis to be...penetrated. What you must be girls, is impenetrable.
More Girls Quotes
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- I get nervous around girls for the first time. Once I'm in, I can take the reins and go. It's just the… — Jensen Ackles
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- Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. — David Bailey
- I never cared for fashion much, amusing little seams and witty little pleats: it was the girls I liked. — David Bailey
- I didn't try and do fashion pictures. I tried to do portraits of girls wearing dresses. — David Bailey
- It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time. — Tallulah Bankhead
- I don't want to be stinky poo poo girl, I want to be happy flower child. — Drew Barrymore
- Not eating breakfast is the worst thing you can do, that's really the take-home message for teenage girls. — Bruce Barton