“If I were a girl, I'd despair. The supply of good women far exceeds that of a man who desrves them.”

“Good-humoured, unaffected girls, will not do for a man who has been used to sensible women. They are two distinct orders of being.”

Jane Austen book Mansfield Park

“It's a good thing I was born a girl, otherwise I'd be a drag queen.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

“As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.”

Maya Angelou (1928–2014) American author and poet

“[Concerning river runners:] If we were going into war again I can't think of any I'd rather have on our side. I mean, all of these good men and women. And if they were on the other side I'd join the other side.”

Edward Abbey book Down the River

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

Elizabeth Gilbert book Eat, Pray, Love

“Boy I tell you what, if I were a girl, I'd never shave! I'd look like I'm smuggling around Chewbacca in my underbritches!”

Larry the Cable Guy (1963) American stand-up comedian, actor, country music artist, voice artist

“This is a mans world.
This is a mans world.
But it would be nothing, nothing
Without a women or a girl.”

James Brown (1933–2006) American singer, songwriter, musician, and recording artist

“I hope the fathers and mothers of little girls will look at them and say "yes women can".”

Dilma Rousseff (1947) 36th President of Brazil

“Good-looking girls break hearts, and good-hearted girls mend them.”

Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist