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:

    “Sebastian: When we’re up in the air, I fall more and more in love. You too, no?
    Holly: No!
    Sebastian: Oh, a girl may say no, but the woman in her means yes.”
    —Fredric M. Frank (1911–1977)

    “What girl could fail to make a conquest who collapsed at a man’s feet in the moonlight?”
    —John L. Balderston (1899–1954)

    “Before I knew that I was Jewish or a girl I knew that I was a member of the working class. At a time when I had not yet grasped the significance of the fact that in my house English was a second language, or that I wore dresses while my brother wore pants, I knew—and I knew it was important to know—that Papa worked hard all day long.”
    —Vivian Gornick (b. 1935)