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:

    “Should I get married? Should I be good?
    Astound the girl next door with my velvet suit and faustus hood?”
    —Gregory Corso (b. 1930)

    “We are beginning to wonder whether a servant girl hasn’t the best of it after all. She knows how the salad tastes without the dressing, and she knows how life’s lived before it gets to the parlor door.”
    —Djuna Barnes (1892–1982)

    “Rosalind. There’s a girl goes before the priest, and
    certainly a woman’s thought runs before her actions.
    Orlando. So do all thoughts, they are winged.”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)