Good Girl Quotes

“Every morning I sit at the kitchen table over a tall glass of water swallowing pills. (So my hands won’t shake.) (So my heart won’t race.) (So my face won’t thaw.) (So my blood won’t mold.) (So the voices won’t scream.) (So I don’t reach for knives.) (So I keep out of the oven.) (So I eat every morsel.) (So the wine goes bitter.) (So I remember the laundry.) (So I remember to call.) (So I remember the name of each pill.) (So I remember the name of each sickness.) (So I keep my hands inside my hands.) (So the city won’t rattle.) (So I don’t weep on the bus.) (So I don’t wander the guardrail.) (So the flashbacks go quiet.) (So the insomnia sleeps.) (So I don’t jump at car horns.) (So I don’t jump at cat-calls.) (So I don’t jump a bridge.) (So I don’t twitch.) (So I don’t riot.) (So I don’t slit a strange man’s throat.)”
― Jeanann Verlee

“Teach her to reject likeability. Her job is not to make herself likeable, her job is to be her full self, a self that is honest and aware of the equal humanity of other people.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions

“I have never tried to be a good person, or to appear to be a good person. What I do and what I have done is merely a side effect of my desire to become me. I have only wanted to be me; if people think I'm good, then so be it. If people think I'm bad, then so be it. But if anything, my greatest struggle is to not come across as so good. I always find myself asking, "Why do I keep on giving off this immense impression of goodness?" Can I ask the world, am I not simply allowed to be me; without needing to be classified as either good or bad? Being known as good has its own prison just as much as being bad has its jail bars. I am so tired of the need to classify people. I am me.”
― C. JoyBell C.

“Wasn't it quite difficult being a wicked girl? Even more difficult than being a good one?”
― Jean Rhys, Sleep It Off Lady: Stories

“The woman desires the bad boy that is only good for her. The man desires the good girl that is only naughty for him.”
― R.A. Delmonico

“The angel is nothing without the demon.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“Even when your mother is asking you to do her a favor (be a good girl) it sounds like she is asking you to wear a coat made out of clear plastic. How do words get like that? thinks Rachel. How do words become so gross and synthetic?”
― Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

“I think the skin revolution for women, I will call it, really all started with Mariah Carey. Madonna was pretty risqué too, but she was pretty much always known as a "bad girl." Mariah was a good girl, supposedly Christian, turning very bad, in the late 90's. So then, all the other little girls and teens and women across America thought it would be ok for them to "come out" too essentially, or flaunt whatever they had. Modesty went completely out the window for many women, starting in the late 90's.”
― Lisa Bedrick, On Christian Hot Topics

“GOOD shouldn’t be used to describe a girl in any way. There are good books, good food, but not good girls.”
― Caroline George, Dearest Josephine

“I’m torn, between the Wards and the Singhs and what’s right. I don’t even know what’s right any more – everything is so muddied. I’m not sure I’m the good girl I once thought I was. I’ve lost her along the way.”
― Holly Jackson, A Good Girl's Guide to Murder

“THE MYTH OF THE GOOD OL BOY AND THE NICE GAL

The good of boy myth and the nice gal are a kind of social conformity myth. They create a real paradox when put together with the "rugged individual" part of the Success Myth. How can I be a rugged individual, be my own man and conform at the same time? Conforming means "Don't make a wave", "Don't rock the boat". Be a nice gal or a good ol' boy. This means that we have to pretend a lot.

"We are taught to be nice and polite. We are taught that these behaviors (most often lies) are better than telling the truth. Our churches, schools, and politics are rampant with teaching dishonesty (saying things we don't mean and pretending to feel ways we don't feel). We smile when we feel sad; laugh nervously when dealing with grief; laugh at jokes we don't think are funny; tell people things to be polite that we surely don't mean."
- Bradshaw On: The Family”
― John Bradshaw, Healing the Shame that Binds You

“So you’re a reader,” My mom sighs, as if somehow this elevates Isabel to yet another realm of perfection.”
― Denis Markell, Click Here to Start

“Remember what a good girl I was? Remember how meek and pleasing I was to everybody? For the first time in my life I could just be.”
― Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land

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

“I volunteered to take a bad chick place so my sister can be a good girl.”
― Irfa Rahat

“The woman desires the bad boy who is only good for her. The man desires the good girl who is only naughty for him.”
― R.A. Delmonico

“But I have plenty of experience with trying to meet everyone's expectations so they won't reject me. It's easy to become a slave to that - to lose yourself in it.”
― Brenda Novak, One Perfect Summer

“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

“You’re a good girl. You’re so good, you’ve let the desire to be it overtake you. It’s defined who you are.
…. You’ve always believed being this way was going to somehow save your life, but it’s stolen it instead. Let me ask, what did being good ever do for you?”
― LaTanya McQueen, When the Reckoning Comes

“What a sad thing, to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. God, how I hate the sound of it. Good girl, thinks Rachel, is mountains and mountains worse than good boy. All a good boy has to do to be good is put on a clean shirt. Nobody wants to be a good girl, thinks Rachel. There can't be a single girl in here who wants to be just fine.”
― Rita Bullwinkel, Headshot

“For all the "good girl" readers looking for an Irish, tattooed man who knows the difference between "harder" and "faster.”
― Joan Morven, Declan

“Ah." Then, her voice low: "I'm keeping an eye on you Samantha, You've always been a good girl. Just ... act like it, okay?"
I always have and this is where I've wound up.”
― Huntley Fitzpatrick, My Life Next Door

“You suppose that you could walk around, but your feet tell you that the map leads directly through the briar wall, and you can’t stray from the path that has been laid out for you. Remember what happened to the little girl, your great-grandmother, in her red woolen cape. Maps protect their travelers, but only if the travelers obey the dictates of their maps. This is what you have been told.”
― Kelly Link, Stranger Things Happen

“The countess's dispassionate gaze fell on Cassandra first, and she motioned for the girl to approach. "The posture is merely adequate," she observed, "but that can be corrected. What are your accomplishments, child?"
Having been prepared for the question in advance, Cassandra replied hesitantly. "My lady, I am able to sew, draw, and watercolor. I play no instruments, but I am well-read."
"Have you studied languages?"
"A little French."
"Have you any hobbies?"
"No, ma'am."
"Excellent. Men are afraid of girls with hobbies." Glancing at Kathleen, Lady Berwick remarked in an aside, "She's a beauty. With a bit more polish, she'll be the belle of the season.”
― Lisa Kleypas, Marrying Winterborne

“You and Derek are good together," Vanessa added. She looked so sincere.
Tianna wished she'd smirk or give her the slightest reason to hate her. She wanted to, but she couldn't. Vanessa was too genuine and good for anyone to dislike.”
― Lynne Ewing, The Lost One

“For Justine's conception of virtue is a specifically feminine one in that sexual abstinence plays a large part in it. In common speech, a 'bad boy' may be a thief, or a drunkard, or a liar, and not necessarily just a womaniser. But a 'bad girl' always contains the meaning of a sexually active girl and Justine knows she is good because she does not fuck.”
― Angela Carter

“People say: it's hard to find a good girl, good a boy. But nobody says that there are no bad girls or boys. God gives you a heart when someone who looks like you”
― Azadshah Ganjali

“page 46
"Good girl"
That's far enough. I let go of her chin and get up.”
― A.L. Russell, Maybe Probably

“I didn't text you because I thought you'd probably run in the other direction," I snapped. "Or maybe back to Bloomingdale's for another smooch session with Clare."
"Uh-oh. Trouble in paradise." Emma held out her hand, and Gage and Anil each handed her a twenty-dollar bill.
"You took bets on us?" I stared at them, aghast.
"You gotta admit that you two were always an unlikely couple," Emma said, pocketing the cash. "Bad-boy rogue thief with dubious underworld affiliations and no fixed address. Hardworking cookie-cutter good girl who worked in a candy store, spent her Friday nights watching crime shows with her octogenarian landlady, showed up every Sunday for dinner with the fam, and never refused a meet and greet with a prospective husband because she didn't want to let her parents down."
"I organized a heist," I protested. "I was arrested for trying to break into a museum. I robbed a mob boss. I got so drunk I passed out on the floor. I did bad things."
"In a good-girl way. No selfishness involved.”
― Sara Desai, 'Til Heist Do Us Part

“The world of women revolves around one solitary word—G.O.O.D.
A good daughter. A good wife. A good mother.
I say: Fuck Good.
Fuck being good.
Fuck you, Good Girls!”
― Sierra.J