Words matter. These are the best Good Girl Quotes from famous people such as Tracey Gold, Rosalyn Sussman Yalow, Sonita Alizadeh, Anna Paquin, Stephenie Meyer, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I had years of therapy to recover from this. A lot of it had to with being a people pleaser, being the ultimate good girl. I wanted everyone to like me. I didn’t really have a voice. I was afraid of growing up.
They told me that, as a woman, I’d never get into graduate school in physics, so they got me a job as a secretary at the College of Physicians and Surgeons and promised that, if I were a good girl, I would take courses there.
A good girl in Afghanistan should be silent, should not talk about her future, should listen to your family, be like a doll so that everyone can play with her.
I was never overexposed and work never became a chore. I was a very good girl wanting to do a good job.
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.
I am really drawn to damaged characters, and I have a lot of sympathy for them. Making those complicated characters empathetic is something to strive for. It’s too easy to create a good guy or a good girl.
Because I’m a good girl, I tend to fall for the bad boy persona, and it ends up biting me in the butt. They end up not knowing how to treat me, and I end up completely devastated.
I’m a good girl, you know? But I’m from the South, and there are some powerful women down there, and very theatrical.
I was the good girl. The straight A student, on the honour roll, part of the choir… I played the cello badly. I did plays.
The best thing about being a good girl on TV is that the audience loves you back instantly. You don’t have to make extra effort to make them empathize with you.
I’m a good girl, and I have a very good Jewish family who brought me up very well.
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.
I was the good girl who never needed disciplining, who made straight A’s. I applied and was accepted to Stanford University.
There’s an expression in Persian, ‘to play with the lion’s tail.’ I wasn’t what Iranian society wanted me to be – a good girl. I played with the lion’s tail.
As women, we get the message about how to be a good girl – how to be a good, pretty girl – from such an early age. Then, at the same time, we’re told that well-behaved girls won’t change the world or ever make a splash.
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.
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.
Elektra isn’t a villain and isn’t a good girl, but as Frank Miller said, she is one of the villains with a weak streak in them, and that’s a failure that I tried to explore.
I was a very good girl for a long time, that’s what really drew me to acting. The stage was the perfect place to be outrageous, to be sad, to be angry, to be all these different things.
I never said I was a ‘good girl.’ I’m not a bad girl.
The more words I learned, the more I started to verbalize my feelings. Whenever my mom or dad would compliment me by saying something like ‘Good boy,’ I’d immediately correct them. ‘No. Good girl.’
Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.
When I have time, I’ll be a good girl and do my chores.
I had a romantic, ‘Aren’t I a good girl?’ take on divorce, but the truth is that was stupid.
I love writing villains because I was the big sister of five girls, so I had heavy responsibility growing up. I had to be ‘the good girl.’
