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:

    “When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like the middle-aged man...who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.”
    —Mark Hanna, and Nathan Hertz. Dr. Von Loeb (Otto Waldis)

    “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.