“But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Remember Me
" "Be Good And Be Forgotten," Says Star https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/48485193?searchTerm=joan+bennett+hiss" (1946)
“But I wasn't a bad girl. I don't want to be forgotten. I want people to remember me.”
Christopher Pike (1954) American author Kevin Christopher McFadden
Source: Remember Me
“Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have the time.”
Tallulah Bankhead (1902–1968) American actress
As quoted in The Pleasures of Diaries: Four Centuries of Private Writing (1989) by Ronald Blythe, p. 3
As quoted in Diaries of Ireland: An Anthology, 1590-1987 (1997) by Melosina Lenox-Conynghim, p. vii
Variant: Only good girls keep diaries. Bad girls don't have time.
“There's an old saying about those who forget history. I don't remember it, but it's good.”
Stephen Colbert (1964) American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor
Susan Jane Gilman (1924) American writer
Source: Kiss My Tiara: How to Rule the World as a SmartMouth Goddess
“They say you can't turn a bad girl good
But once a good girl's gone bad, she's gone forever”
Jay-Z (1969) American rapper, businessman, entrepreneur, record executive, songwriter, record producer and investor
Song Cry
The Blueprint (2001)
Erwin Rommel (1891–1944) German field marshal of World War II
On Italians, sometimes cited to The Rommel Papers (1953) edited by Basil Henry Liddell Hart, but without specific chapter or page citations; it seems to summarize an attitude indicated by Rommel in Ch. 11 of that work, but no published occurrence of this has actually been located.
Disputed
“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”
Katharine Hepburn (1907–2003) film, stage, and television actress
Source: Me: Stories of My Life