Girlness Quotes & Sayings

Now that I know, I can't unsee her girlness. The turned curve of her nose, the slant of her cheeks. How her eyelashes curl up just so. It would be a mistake to think that any of these things mean she's fragile. The very fact that she's sitting here, eight days after being stabbed, is testament to that. — Ryan Graudin

So I set out to study the oxidation system in the potato, which, if damaged, causes the plant to turn brown. I did this in the hope of discovering, through these studies, the key to the understanding of adrenal function. — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

Tempora mutantur, nos et mutamur in illis," Douglas commented. Times change, and we change with them. — S.C. Gwynne

Bobby pins crunching under my feet, I walk through, surveying the damaged girlness. — Megan Abbott

Proverbs 15:1 A gentle answer turns away anger, but a harsh word stirs up wrath. — Robert J. Morgan

The typhoon had got on Jukes' nerves — Joseph Conrad

For the past month and a half, it's been inanely hot every single day. Someone's bound to feel a little homicidal now and then. — Brenna Yovanoff

I read a lot ... I love books. I work with books. Books are my life. — Kate Morton

As my college days draw to a close, I find myself looking forward with beating heart and bright anticipations to what the future holds of activity for me. My share in the work of the world may be limited; but the fact that it is work makes it precious. Nay, the desire and will to work is optimism itself. — Helen Keller

When life gives you melons, you might be dyslexic. — Jay McLean

But Roosevelt was just as much a faker. He constructed his macho persona from the ground up. When he first entered public life at the age of twenty-three as a New York state assemblyman, he was a rich kid with soft hands, a squeaky voice, and clothes that were a little too fashionable for his own good. The newspapers gave him nicknames: "Jane-Dandy," "our own Oscar Wilde," and "Punkin-Lily." He went west to shake this reputation. Viewed from this angle, Roosevelt's entire life looks like one gigantic exercise in overcompensation. — Nathanael Johnson

I'd been a girl forever, after all, familiar with and reliant upon the powers my very girlness granted me. — Cheryl Strayed

Start with a blank surface. It doesn't have to be paper or canvas, but I feel it should be white. We call it white because we need a word, but its true name is nothing. Black is the absence of light, but white is the absence of memory, the color of can't remember. — Stephen King

The darkness had come to claim her at last and she gave into it willingly. Her beast would keep her safe. — Jennifer Silverwood

Now that you know the truth, you can never go back. — Cassandra Clare

Fun is carefree. I am not carefree. — Madeline Kahn

In the way that scepticism is sometimes applied to issues of public concern, there is a tendency to belittle, to condescend, to ignore the fact that, deluded or not, supporters of superstition and pseudoscience are human beings with real feelings, who, like the sceptics, are trying to figure out how the world works and what our role in it might be. Their motives are in many cases consonant with science. If their culture has not given them all the tools they need to pursue this great quest, let us temper our criticism with kindness. None of us comes fully equipped. — Carl Sagan