„Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive,Half wishing they were dead to save the shame.The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow;They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats,And flare up bodily, wings and all. What then?Who’s sorry for a gnat… or a girl?“

— Elizabeth Barrett Browning

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„The girl dreams she is dangerously ill. Suddenly birds come out of her skin and cover her completely… Swarms of gnats obscure the sun, the moon, and all the stars except one. That one start falls upon the dreamer.“
— C.G. Jung
„I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.“
— Emily Brontë
„Thalia blushed. "Hi, Lord Apollo."Zeus's girl, yes? Makes you my half sister. Used to be a tree, didn't you? Glad you're back. I hate it when pretty girls turn into trees. Man, I remember one time—“
— Rick Riordan
„Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.“
— Richard Bach
„Now I am old-fashioned. A woman, I consider, should be womanly. I have no patience with the modern neurotic girl who jazzes from morning to night, smokes like a chimney, and uses language which would make a billingsgate fishwoman blush!“
— Agatha Christie
„“You know, Ellie, you play this game awfully well—for a girl.”“Thank you too much.”“No, I mean it. I suppose girls are probably as intelligent as men, but most of them don’t act like it. I think it’s because they don’t have to. If a girl is pretty, she doesn’t have to think.”“
— Robert A. Heinlein
„Girls aren't beautiful, they're pretty. Beautiful is too heavy a word to assign to a girl. Women are beautiful because their faces show that they know they have lost something and picked up something else.“
— Henry Rollins