Great expectations Quote by Rainbow Rowell

“How do you get through any of your classes?" Cath had hours of assigned reading, almost every single night. "Coping strategies." "Such as?" "I…

— Rainbow Rowell

“GIRLS MAY START OUT SMART BUT NOT ALL GIRLS STAY SO DAMNED SMART..”

— Judith Krantz

“Why can't a girl be smart without it being explained away as a rare supernatural phenomenon?”

— Cat Winters

“The trouble with girls is, if they like a boy, no matter how big a bastard he is, they'll say he has an inferiority…

— J.D. Salinger

“I hate to be what is called a clever girl--there are too many of that sort now!”

— Thomas Hardy

“It was not easy being a smart girl in the 1940s. People thought you were annoying.”

— Liza Mundy

“Intelligent teenage girls were often instinctively theatrical, purposely eccentric, mouthing highly suggestive words to confuse people.”

— Haruki Murakami

“I wasn't the smartest kid in town but I've always thought if you hang around with smart people some of it's bound to rub…

— Victor J. Banis

“We liked to be known as the clever girls.”

— Malala Yousafzai

“The child had wanted attention. She had just asked to be noticed. But she was given an assessment. 'What a clever girl!”

— Peter Høeg

“There are maybe two or three thousand people in the world as smart as us, little sister. Most of them are making a living…

— Orson Scott Card

“Kid, you may be the smartest person alive, but a master of subtlety you are not.”

— T.J. Klune