Good Girl Quotes - Page 2

As girls grow up and download what it means to be a culturally acceptable 'good girl,' they learn to please others at the expense of themselves. They worry about protecting relationships - and what people think of them - at all costs.
Rachel Simmons / Author
Acceptable
Good Girl
Please
Good Grow People
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My mother started out by being a very good girl. She did everything that was expected of her, and it cost her dearly. Late in her life, she was furious that she had not followed her own heart; she thought that it had ruined her life, and I think she was right.
Ruth Reichl / Writer
Cost
Furious
Good Girl
Ruined
Life Good Heart
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Many girls aspire to a version of selfhood that puts a psychological glass ceiling on their potential to succeed. They suffer from what I call the Curse of the Good Girl: the pressure to be liked by everyone, generous to a fault, and flawless at everything you do.
Rachel Simmons / Author
Girl
Aspire
Curse
Flawless
Generous
Good Girl
Pressure
Psychological
Succeed
Everyone
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Call
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
Valerie Plame / Author
Courage
Girl
Bias
Gender
Good Girl
Looking Back
Maturity
Unconscious
Wish
Rules
Career
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I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do.
Katy Perry / Recording Artist
Girl
Respect
Good
Bad Girl
Believe
Cards
Deck
Good Girl
Integrity
People
Sex
Sex Appeal
Stories
Tease
Thinking
Love Good Music
Like
Really
Because
Love Respect Music
Love Good Respect
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People love the idea of a good girl gone bad, thinking that my parents were so strict and disowned me, but that actually wasn't the case. Even though they don't necessarily agree with some of the things I do, they love me as their daughter. That's always been their perspective.
Katy Perry / Recording Artist
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Girl
Agree
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Love Good Thinking
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I'm not a pretty princess, and I'm aware of that, so I like music that is really intense, really bold, and characters that in a way almost have a dark side and are kind of evil because, for me, that's when I feel my strongest and fiercest, when I'm not necessarily the good girl.
Ashley Wagner / Figure Skater
Girl
Dark
Dark Side
Evil
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Intense
Strongest
Almost
Pretty
Aware
Bold
Side
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How can you go wrong with two people in love? If a good boy loves a good girl, good. If a good boy loves another good boy, good. And if a good girl loves the goodness in good boys and good girls, then all you have is more goodness, and goodness has nothing to do with sexual orientation.
Fiona Apple / Singer-Songwriter
Girl
Boys
Good Girl
Orientation
Two
Love Good People
Boy
Loves
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Secrecy is hardly new on Planet Girl: as many an eye-rolling boy will tell you, girls excel at eluding the prying questions of grown ups. And who can blame them? From an early age, young women learn that to be a 'good girl,' they must be nice, avoid conflict, and make friends with everyone.
Rachel Simmons / Author
Blame
Conflict
Good Girl
Secrecy
Good Women Age
Be Nice
Early Age
Excel
Hardly
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Ups
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I grew up in a community where it was not the exception to be a good girl. It was sort of expected. And all of my friends were good girls too, and my boyfriends were good boys. Everybody was pretty nice. And that affects how I write my characters. There aren't very many bad guys in my novels.
Stephenie Meyer / Writer
Boyfriend
Girl
Bad Guys
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Exception
Expected
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It used to be the one or the other, right? You were the 'bad girl' or the 'good girl' or the 'bad mother' or 'the good mother,' 'the horrible businesswoman who eschewed her children' or 'the earth mother who was happy to be at home baking pies,' all of that stuff that we sort of knew was a lie.
Annette Bening / Actress
Bad Girl
Baking
Good Girl
Horrible
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Guinevere is just head over heels and doesn't know how to handle these new emotions that she's feeling, as a young woman. Unfortunately, she can't reign it all in, all the time. And, even though she tries to do the right thing and be the good girlfriend and have her morals, she slips up a little bit.
Tamsin Egerton / Actress
Feelings
Girlfriend
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Because my dad's Chinese-American, and they're very concrete, he said, 'There's no money to be made in literature.' So he told me to go into the sciences. And I was a good girl. And I did what Daddy said. And that's how I ended up being a doctor. But you know, you just can't stamp out that desire to tell stories.
Tess Gerritsen / Md
Concrete
Daddy
Good Girl
Good Money Dad
Doctor
Ended
Sciences
Stamp
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I think one of the things that writers and creative artists generally have to deal with is the censors that we have in our heads, the voices that we have that say you better not tell that and don't tell that, and people will think you're not a good girl, and your grandmother's going to be mad at you and all of those things.
Pearl Cleage / Author
Good Girl
Good Better People
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