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.

Famous quotes containing the word girl:

“it’s just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes—
I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother
And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible”
—Gregory Corso (b. 1930)

“The bed is ravaged by such
sweet sights. The girl is.
The girl drifts up out of
her nightgown and its color.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)

“Marry a mountain girl and you marry the whole mountain.”
—Irish proverb.

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