original Indian

• GIRL
  
  We say that a girl with her doll anticipates the mother. It is more true, perhaps, that most mothers are still but children with playthings. * F. H. Bradley
• I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl. I want to rule the world. * Madonna Louise Ciccione
• Minerva House...was "a finishing establishment for young ladies," where some twenty girls of the ages from thirteen to nineteen inclusive, acquired a smattering of everything and a knowledge of nothing. * Charles Dickens
• The thing to remember about fathers is, they're men. A girl has to keep it in mind: They are dragon-seekers, bent on improbable rescues. Scratch any father, you find Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, Believing change is a threat- Like your first shoes with heels on, like your first bicycle It took such months to get. * Phyllis McGinley
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  Dancing is a wonderful training for girls, it's the first way you learn to guess what a man is going to do before he does it. * Christopher Morley
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  This seemed a dreary and wasted life for a girl with fifteen years of straight A's, but I knew that's what marriage was like, because cook and clean and wash was just what Buddy Willard's mother did from morning till night, and she was the wife of a university professor and had been a private school teacher herself. * Sylvia Plath
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  Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her--when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her? * Helen Rowland
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  Flops are a part of life's menu and I've never been a girl to miss out on any of the courses. * Rosalind Russell
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  Children have a natural antipathy to books--handicraft should be the basis of education. Boys and girls should be taught to use their hands to make something, and they would be less apt to destroy and be mischievous. * Oscar Wilde