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:

    ““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)

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

    “Why does a man take it for granted that a girl who flirts with him wants him to kiss her—when, nine times out of ten, she only wants him to want to kiss her?”
    —Helen Rowland (1875–1950)