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“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without farther expense to anybody.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night
“A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children.” Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
“a real gentleman is as polite to a little girl as to a woman” Louisa May Alcott, An Old-Fashioned Girl
“the difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.” George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.” Margaret Atwood, Cat's Eye
“From all that I can collect by your manner of talking, you must be two of the silliest girls in the country.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“At twelve I looked like a girl of seventeen. My body was developed and shapely.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“In Hollywood a girl’s virtue is much less important than her hair-do. You’re judged by how you look, not by what you are.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“It takes three girls to tow always; two hold the rope, and the other one runs round and round, and giggles.” Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat
“Mothers have need of sharp eyes and discreet tongues when they have girls to manage.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl.” Charlie Chaplin, My Autobiography
“Don't try to make me grow up before my time, Meg.” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

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