Girlhood Quote by Louisa May Alcott

If I could be granted a wish, I'd shine in your eye like a jewel.

— Bette Midler

The thought that, insignificant as she was, she yet might do some good, made her very careful of her acts and words, and so…

— Louisa May Alcott

“Up in the garret, where Jo's unquiet wanderings ended, stood four little wooden chests in a row, each marked with its owner's name, and…

— Louisa May Alcott

“There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

All the humiliating, tragicomic, heartbreaking things happened to me in my girlhood, and nothing makes me happier than to realize I cannot possibly relive…

— Ilka Chase

When one is five-and-twenty, one has not chalk-stones at one's finger-ends that the touch of a handsome girl should be entirely indifferent.

— George Eliot

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…

— Bell Hooks

“The whistle buried under my skin and became a permanent part of me. I had a radar for certain eyes afterward. It was a…

— Deb Caletti

With fatal, fatal Love a girlhood goes.

— Louise Imogen Guiney

Girlhood is often marred by schoolgirl cruelty, a grim rite of passage in which parents sometimes cruelly collude. Mothers and fathers must take a…

— Rachel Simmons

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…

— Joyce Carol Oates

“From 'Periodic Table of Elements': A girl ago, a girlhood gone like a phial of ether | Thrown on fire--just | A little jump…

— Lucie Brock-Broido

“Mama once told me before she died that my blonde hair makes the sun go wild with envy.”

— Kyle Labe

“In striving to fulfill our identities as women, it's important not to confound the various passages of life with each other. What we may…

— Erica Jong

“Even as you kept telling me that I'm becoming a woman, you never let me go out into the world to be free.”

— Ibi Zoboi