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:

    “It’s my old girl that advises. She has the head. But I never own to it before her. Discipline must be maintained.”
    —Charles Dickens (1812–1870)

    ““A girl I had, but she followed another,
    Money I had, and it went in the night,
    Strong drink I had, and it brought me to sorrow,
    But a good strong cause and blows are delight.”
    All there caught up the tune:
    “On, on, my darling man.””
    —William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    “If I were tickled by the rub of love,
    A rooking girl who stole me for her side ...”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)