„You're more trouble than you're worth."
"I'm a girl. That's my job.“
— Tamora Pierce, book Street Magic
Source: Street Magic
Related quotes
„You're more trouble than you're worth."
„I'm much more self-conscious clothed than unclothed. I'm a frustrated Page Three girl. I have no shame about my body.“
— Susannah Constantine British fashion designer and journalist 1962
As quoted in "Acne, alcohol … and non-stop sex" by Lynda Lee-Potter in Daily Mail http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/femail/article.html?in_article_id=229872&in_page_id=1879 (6 September 2003)
„I'm so much happier now that people seem to find better things to ask me about than all my "accomplishments" from when I was a little girl. I feel like that was so long ago, and so irrelevant to who I am now, that I am glad the focus isn't really on that as much any more.“
— Alicia Witt American actress 1975
AOL Live (1996)
„I won't open boxes
That I am told not to.
I'm not a Pandora.
I'm much more like
That girl in the mirror.“
— Kate Bush British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer 1958
Song lyrics, The Dreaming (1982)
Context: I won't open boxes
That I am told not to.
I'm not a Pandora.
I'm much more like
That girl in the mirror.
Between you and me
She don't stand a chance of getting anywhere at all.
„Hey girl I want you to know
I'm gonna miss you so much if you go.
And hey girl I tell you no lie,
Something deep inside of me's going to die
If you say so long, if this is goodbye.“
— Carole King Nasa 1942
Hey Girl (1963), Co-written with Freddie Scott and Gerry Goffin, recorded by Freddie Scott and Donny Osmond
Song lyrics, Singles
„Girl, I don't want to fight,
I'm a little bit wrong,
And you're a little bit right.
I said, girl, you know that it's true,
It's a little bit me,
And it's a little bit you too.“
— Neil Diamond American singer-songwriter 1941
A Little Bit Me, performed by The Monkees (1967)
Song lyrics
„Lord knows I'm not a fool girl
I really shouldn't care
Lord knows I'm not a school girl
In the flurry of her first affair.“
— Noel Coward English playwright, composer, director, actor and singer 1899 - 1973
Mad About the Boy (1932)
„Just so you know Gallagher Girl,' he whispered softly, 'I'm going to kiss you now.“
— Ally Carter, Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
Source: Cross My Heart and Hope to Spy
„Do you think that you're beautiful?
Inside or outside? Mmmmm… outside I don't think about that too much because I realise that's all very superficial. I'm more concerned about inside, and inside I think I'm alright… I'm OK inside. I don't think I'm perfect and I don't call myself beautiful but I'm definitely not ugly inside. I've got friends who aren't that so called pleasant to look at but inside I think they're beautiful.“
— Kim Wilde English pop singer 1960
[http://www.kimwilde.com/articles/1981/00244/ New Musical Express (19 September 1981)
Interviews
„You have to understand that I'm not the girl I used to be. I'm a wife and a mother now, and like everyone else I'm not perfect. I struggle with the choices I've made and I make mistakes, and half the time I wonder who I really am or what I'm doing or whether my life means anything at all. I'm not special at all, Dawson, and you need to know that. You have to understand that I'm just…ordinary.“
— Nicholas Sparks American writer and novelist 1965
Amanda Collier Ridley, Chapter 11, p. 171
2009, The Best of Me (2011)
„Dawn has come at last,
Twenty-five years, honey just in one night, oh yeah.
Well, Im twenty-five years older now
So I know we can't be right
And Im no better, baby,
And I cant help you no more
Than I did when just a girl.“
— Janis Joplin American singer and songwriter 1943 - 1970
"Kozmic Blues", co-written with Gabriel Mekler
I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama! (1969)
„So now I'm thinking about it. I'm imagining sitting down with my parents and actually saying, "I'm gay." And you know what? It makes me a little mad. I mean, straight guys don't have to sit their parents down and tell them they like girls.“
— Michael Thomas Ford American writer 1968
Source: Suicide Notes
„Many other people say I'm bent, and I've heard it so many times that I've almost learned to accept it ... I know I'm perfectly as capable of being swayed by a girl as by a boy. More and more people feel that way and I don't see why I shouldn't.“
— Dusty Springfield English singer and record producer 1939 - 1999
As quoted in a September 1970 Ray Connolly interview http://www.rayconnolly.co.uk/pages/journalism_01/journalism_01_item.asp?journalism_01ID=78 for the Evening Standard.
„I deserve better than that, you know? I deserve… I deserve to be someone's number one girl."
"You are."
"No, I'm not. She is. You're still protecting her, her secret, whatever that is. From what, though? From me? What have I ever done to her?“
— Jenny Han, book P.S. I Still Love You
Source: P.S. I Still Love You
„They wanna know why, I'm so fly, a girl asked me for a ring and I put one around her whole eye“
— Big L (rapper) American rapper 1974 - 1999
„i like the way you move your body
girl i must admit
you're looking real fit
let's chill for a little bit
i know you wanna get with me
girl you know i'm not free“
— Craig David English singer 1981
Song Can't Be Messing 'Round
„I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?“
— Bret Easton Ellis, American Psycho
Source: American Psycho
„Raffi: Well, um, Taylor said only girls wear nail polish and so I, so I said but I'm a boy and I'm wearing nail polish, and so you're wrong!
Clarice: Raffi, I'm proud of you! That was a very smart thing to say!
Raffi: And then I kicked him.“
— Alison Bechdel, book Dykes to Watch Out For
#314, "Boy Trouble" (1999), collected in Post-DTWOF (2000).
Dykes to Watch Out For