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:

    “Any gentleman with the slightest chic will give a girl a fifty dollar bill for the powder room.”
    —George Axelrod (1922)

    “Roger Thornhill: Tell me, how does a girl like you get to be a girl like you?
    Eve Kendall: Lucky I guess.
    Roger Thornhill: No, not lucky. Naughty, wicked, up to no good. Ever kill anyone? Because I bet you could tease a man to death without half trying. So stop trying.”
    —Ernest Lehman (b.1920)

    “A stranger has come
    To share my room in the house not right in the head,
    A girl mad as birds....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)