73 Girlish Quotes

Following is our list of girlish quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about girly girl.

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Famous Girlish Quotes

As a girl, I am this stupid, emotional, very loyal, sort of believe-in-values-and-principals sort of girl. — Priyanka Chopra

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid. - Coco Lee

I'm still a, you know, a silly girl... a big kid. — Coco Lee

A giraffe is so much a lady that one refrains from thinking of her legs, but remembers her as floating over the plains in long garb, draperies of morning mist her mirage. — Isak Dinesen

I'm not looking for a boyish girl. I'm looking for a boy. And I'm not looking for a girlish boy either. — Harry Hay

Theres something about girls and unicorns thats deep and meaningful. Something about childhood. — Ted Naifeh

Girls learn to love and have sexual feelings in a position of low status, and the eroticization of powerlessness is a normal part of the construction of femininity. — Sheila Jeffreys

A girl is Innocence playing in the mud, Beauty standing on its head, and Motherhood dragging a doll by the foot. — Alan Beck

Puberty for a girl is like floating down a broadening river into an open sea. — Granville Stanley Hall

She's got the kind of ethereal, unselfconscious beauty some young girls possess that breaks your heart. Or theirs. — Ilsa J. Bick

I’m definitely a girly-girl and I love playing with fashion, but at the same time I will go skydiving with you tomorrow. — Shay Mitchell

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins. - Paris Hilton

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins. — Paris Hilton

The first rule that a geisha is taught, at the age of nine, is to be charming to other women...Every girl in the world should have geisha training. — Diana Vreeland

Adolescence is when girls experience social pressure to put aside their authentic selves and to display only a small portion of their gifts. — Mary Pipher

I'd much rather be a woman than a man. Women can cry, they can wear cute clothes, and they're the first to be rescued off sinking ships. — Gilda Radner

Glamor is just sex that got civilized. A pretty girl, tastefully posed in a scant costume, is even a sort of cultural achievement. — Dorothy Lamour

Short Girlish Quotes

  • Women diet to retain their girlish figures or their boyish husbands. — Evan Esar
  • April, April Laugh thy girlish laughter; Then, the moment after, Weep thy girlish tears. — William Watson
  • Honestly, I like everything, boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. — Angelina Jolie
  • I like to keep my girlish figure — Billie Joe Armstrong

Girlish Image Quotes

Girly Quotes

I’m not just edgy, and I’m not just into a tomboy look, and I’m not just girly. I do what I want, and if I like something, I’ll wear it. — Sadie Sink

I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara. — Bar Refaeli

I've always been a very outdoors sort of girl. I'm more a tomboy than a girly girl. — Yvonne Strahovski

There are so many pressures that are put upon young women. Whatever we can do to alleviate that and help women feel beautiful about who we are inside, which is the only beauty there truly is, is so nice. Let's get down and dirty. Let's be a real girl. — Drew Barrymore

Im not your biggest girly girl. — Maggie Siff

Not knowing you can't do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it. — Ally Carter

Cut the ending. Revise the script. The man of her dreams is a girl. — Julie Anne Peters

I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. I had really short hair and started blurring the line a bit. But for me, grade school was about Benetton, Esprit, and Guess jeans. — Chloe Sevigny

Too many girls follow the line of least resistance, but a good line is hard to resist. — Mae West

I love pink, it's so girly! — Ashley Tisdale

Girly Girl Quotes

I don't like to look sloppy. I'm a girly-girl. — Frances Bean Cobain

When I found out I got this job, I cried, of course - I'm a girly-girl - and then I called my dad, and he cried, too. On so many levels, this is a thrill for me. — Lisa Guerrero

I always enjoyed getting dolled up. I grew up surrounded by a bunch of women so you know there were always hair/makeup, clothes, shoes and other girly things around. — Trina

You're a beautiful girl, and you can do anything you want in life. — Jeanine Pirro

I was never a girl that dreamt of being a princess and I never dreamt about my wedding day. I hated pink and I hated fairies. I only liked hanging out with boys. I remember throwing a tantrum if my mum put me in pink. I wasn't a particularly girly girl. — Emily Blunt

More than anything, acting helped me discover who I'm not. I've learned that I'm a girly girl, but not a prissy girl. — Debby Ryan

A McQueen woman always has to feel powerful. She's never a girly girl, she's always a woman. — Sarah Burton

I'm not really a girly girl. — Selena Gomez

Anyone who knows me, knows that I am not afraid of anything. — Cindy Sheehan

I was more feminine. I was a girly-girl until I moved to New York. Then I got really into the androgynous look of the early-'90s club scene. — Chloe Sevigny

Girlie Quotes

A lot of people still think caring about clothes is a dubious, unserious, frivolous, girlie thing. — Jerry Saltz

I don't like pink and I am not into girlie stuff, bows and frills, sugary looking things. — Katie McGrath

I really enjoy dressing up. I'm pretty much a girlie girl. — Joanne Froggatt

I have never been a girlie girl and have always been a boys' girl with an equal amount of friends who were boys and girls. — Anushka Sharma

Unlike the millions who casually masturbate in solitude while looking at girlie pictures in Playboy and similar magazines, the massage man preferred an accomplice, an attendant lady of respectable appearance who would help him reduce the guilt and loneliness of this most lonely act of love. — Gay Talese

I don't consider myself a fashion person, I consider myself a shopping person. As a person who has girlie interests and a little bit of disposable income. — Mindy Kaling

Androgynous fashion, long hair, the Pill, a new interest in the inner psychological life - an unabashed sloppiness, if you will - really marks the sixties. It was when Britain went girlie. And what do girls do? Girls shop. — Andrew Marr

Im wearing an outfit that looks just like a cupcake ... a pink frothy blouse, low cut ... everything a little inappropriately girlie ... Pink, pink, lot of pink, ... Out of Practice. — Jennifer Tilly

American Psychological Association, the girlie-girl culture’s emphasis on beauty and play-sexiness can increase girls’ vulnerability to the pitfalls that most concern parents: depression, eating disorders, distorted body image, risky sexual behavior. — Peggy Orenstein

To those critics who are so pessimistic about our economy, I say: Don't be economic girlie men! — Arnold Schwarzenegger

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Read quotes by Priyanka Chopra

Priyanka Chopra
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Read quotes by Coco Lee

Coco Lee
quotes on life, love and happiness

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Read quotes by Isak Dinesen

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Read quotes by Harry Hay

Harry Hay
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Read quotes by Sheila Jeffreys

Sheila Jeffreys
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Read quotes by Ilsa J. Bick

Ilsa J. Bick
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More Girlish Quotes

I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street. — Angelina Jolie

My vocal style I haven't tried to copy from anyone. It just developed until it became the girlish whine it is today. — Robert Plant

Gone were my girlish ideas about romantic love and my later ideas about sexual love. From Yi, I learned to appreciate deep-heart love. Peony in Love — Lisa See

Being an actor gives you a chance to play all kinds of roles, very moving and dramatic on one project, silly and girlish on another. That's the most interesting thing out this business, you get to keep reinventing yourself. — Sarah Michelle Gellar

After centuries of conditioning of the female into the condition of perpetual girlishness called femininity, we cannot remember what femaleness is. — Germaine Greer

It is a giggle full of high spirits and merry mischief, proof that we never lose our girlish selves, no matter what sort of women we become. — Libba Bray

Neighbors would pass, and when they honked I'd remember that I was in my Speedo. Then I'd wrap my towel like a skirt around my waist and remind my sisters that this was not girlish but Egyptian, thank you very much. — David Sedaris

Every time I say sure when I mean no, every time I smile brightly when I'm exploding with rage, every time I imagine my man's achievement is my own, I know the cheerleader never really died. I feel her shaking her ass inside me and I hear her breathless, girlish voice mutter T-E-A-M, Yea, Team. — Louise Bernikow

The feminine woman is forever static and childlike. She is like the ballerina in an old-fashioned music box, her unchanging features tiny and girlish, her voice tinkly, her body stuck on a pin, rotating in a spiral that will never grow. — Susan Faludi

'Princess' is a good word, as is 'girlish', 'pixie-like' and all these other things. I personally find it a bit boring, it's all been done before. The amount of times you read reviews of bands and it's an all-girl four-piece, and they talk about what the women are wearing... you'll never read a review that's like: "Male singer Thom Yorke, who was dressed in a white t-shirt and jeans..." You would never read that about a man. — Lauren Mayberry

Now, unless someone's, like, 50 or older, they're meant to behave like girls. And it's a broad stroke: It's not just a moment of being vulnerable and girlish. — Lisa Kudrow

I love life and I love that about people... I adore the human experience, I really adore the ... I love the contradictions of people... I don't mind being sexy and girlish and womanly, and all those things at the same time... smart and very — Jewel

I can't believe I got a major-label record deal. My music was quirky, and my voice was so odd and high and girlish, it was like a weird novelty act. — Juliana Hatfield

It’s spring! Farewell To chills and colds! The blushing, girlish World unfolds Each flower, leaf And blade of sod— Small letters sent To her from God. — John Updike

You should try them, Nick. They’re delicious. No one makes cookies that taste like this.” – Kara ‘Probably because arsenic was a key ingredient.’ “Have to watch my girlish figure. ‘Cause if I don’t, no one will.” – Nick — Sherrilyn Kenyon

Love is a kind of dementia with very precise and oft-repeated clinical symptoms. You blush in each other's presence, you both hover in places where you expect the other to pass, you are both a little tongue-tied, you both laugh inexplicably and too long, you become quite nauseatingly girlish, and he becomes quite ridiculously gallant. You have also grown a little stupid. — Louis de Bernieres

I'm tempting you with fine gifts until your girlish ideals are quite worn away and you are at my mercy. — Margaret Mitchell

He won't be one of those girlishly pretty men with curly gold hair...He'll be dark, dangerous, too. Brave, certainly, but not without flaws. I like my heroes human. — Nora Roberts

He looked at her an instant, for the effect of the graceful girlish figure with pale, passionate face and dark eyes full of sorrow, pride and resolution was wonderfully enhanced by the gloom of the great room, and glimpses of a gathering storm in the red autumn sky. — Louisa May Alcott

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