Girl

Girl

A girl is any female human from birth through childhood and adolescence to attainment of adulthood when she becomes a woman. The term may also be used to mean a young woman.

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Famous quotes containing the word girl:

    “How can I, that girl standing there,
    My attention fix
    On Roman or on Russian
    Or on Spanish politics?”
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “Frankie mounted to the scaffold as calm as a girl can be,”
    —Unknown. Frankie and Johnny (l. 85)

    “A girl loves most often because she is loved,Mnot from choice on her part. She is won by the flattery of the man’s desire.”
    —Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)