Good Girls Quotes

“Good girls hold their heads high by daylight,
Their grace and their virtue soaring with kites,
While bad girls slink along in their shame-
Everyone stares at them, everyone blames.
But those bad girls sleep soundly at night,
Ne'er do their consciences wake them in a fright,
While our good girls toss and they turn-
They lay awake for those who will burn.”
― Anna Godbersen, Rumors

“Seeing the transformation in Aaron made me wonder how it would feel to have someone-even a not-so-nice guy like Aaron- look at me the way he looked at Anjali.”
― Polly Shulman, The Grimm Legacy

“Julia had been very very good for a very long time, and the funny thing about that was, if you're too good too much of the time, people start to forget about you. You're not a problem, so people can strike you off their list of things to worry about. Nobody makes a fuss over you. They make a fuss over the bad girls.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician King

“We were women in transition, raised in one era and coming of age in another, very different time...here we were, entering the workplace in the 1960s questioning--and often rejecting--many of the values we had been taught. We were the polite, perfectionist "good girls," who never showed our drive or our desires around men. Now we were becoming mad women, discovering and confronting our own ambitions, a quality praised in men but stigmatized--still--in women.”
― Lynn Povich, The Good Girls Revolt: How the Women of Newsweek Sued their Bosses and Changed the Workplace

“I am become a hard, thankless, graceless girl, and it was the only way I could do it.”
― Agnes Smedley, Daughter of Earth

“I have never admired a woman for being good and I have never admired a woman for being bad. I have, however, admired other women, for believing in themselves.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“So many people, Julie thought, stuck in their cars, stuck in their lives, just waiting for someone else to get out of their way.”
― Sara Shepard, The Good Girls

“Because isn’t that what eternity is? It’s your own high school. Where the good girls are always good, the stupid boys are always stupid, the marching band always plays some lame tribute to whatever Broadway musical was big twenty-five years ago...”
― Mary Crockett and Madelyn Rosenberg

“She'd never stood a chance. She was a good girl, raised on the bible and charm school. She was destined to long for the thrill of the unattainable and nobody was more unattainable to a good girl than the bad boy.”
― Jess Bryant, Something to Talk About

“The term "good girl" is a reward slapped onto women who do not pose a threat to the status quo. If it makes you feel nice to be called a "good girl", I want you to sit down and think hard. The women who stood up and voted when it was illegal for them to do so, when it was a "sin" for them to vote, were not "good girls". They were the bad girls. The women who ran in marathons disguised as men when women were an abomination to sports, were not "good girls". They were the bad girls. The first female pilot, the first female engineer, the first ever woman who wore red lipstick. All bad girls. Sit down and think hard. If you want to receive rewards from people for falling into their lines, then move out of the way for the women who blaze paths that you will one day walk on.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“All her life she had striven to do the right thing, but right according to whom?”
― Sonia Choquette, The Psychic Pathway: A Workbook for Reawakening the Voice of Your Soul

“There's a reason why fairy tales don't tell
of girls who are good and nice yet dangerous as hell.”
― Maya Amlin, If I Have A Daughter One Day

“Don't stop dreaming, my darling;
good girls don't do that.”
― Maya Amlin, If I Have A Daughter One Day

“There’s a price to be paid when you raise your daughter to be nice, and she’s not the only one who’s going to pay it. You’ll be right there beside her, trapped by inconvenience, inflexibility and double standards.”
― Gina Barreca

“My brother was always lookin for a "good" girl. He sure was a fool. What you gonna do with a good girl?”
― J. California Cooper, The Matter Is Life

“Was she a bad person? She didn’t know. She didn’t feel bad but…she didn’t feel exactly good either. Not that she knew what those things really meant anyway. Who decided?”
― Lexie Talionis, Flames of Lethe