Around 7 years old, we girls took dancing lessons, joined the Brownies, the Girl Scouts, the 4H Club.
What helped was that my mother, even though we didn't have a lot of money... allowed me to take part in the Girl Scouts.
Being in the Girl Scouts took me out of the projects environment and showed me different things.
I've been so impressed with the kinds of thoughtful questions that I've gotten from young people, from Girl Scouts, from teenagers.
I'm not a girly girl.
I'm a bit of a tomboy, but then a girly girl. And I feel like you can be both.
From the moment I could express myself, I acted like a stereotypical girl and insisted that I was a girl. I wasn't just a boy who liked girly things - I knew I was a girl.
I am a very girly girl.
Any girl can be glamorous. All you have to do is stand still and look stupid.
A Texas girl who grew up in terrible poverty, I ended up leading a pretty glamorous life.
My family moved to Saudi Arabia from Glasgow when I was 15. Being a 15-year-old girl anywhere is difficult - all those hormones and everything - but being a 15-year-old girl in Saudi Arabia... it was like someone had turned the light off in my head. I could not get a grasp on why women were treated like this.
My father was never around. But I glorified my father, and I was always daddy's little girl. He was my first soccer coach.
When I first started doing screen work, I thought, 'I'm not beautiful enough for this profession - all the actresses I watch on screen are gorgeous and beautiful goddesses, but I'm just a scrawny, scruffy girl from southwest London.'
The day Guy Clark passed away was the day we wrote 'Girl Goin' Nowhere.' It was the first day I had met Jeremy Bussey, who I wrote the song with.
All you have to do is say, 'I'm going home,' and you're the most popular girl at the party.
Sometimes in New York, you're walking down the street and you realize there's a girl walking in front of you whose thighs you could hit a golf ball through, and maybe that makes you depressed.
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta.
I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!' It was really like, 'Oh god, everyone's gong to hate these people! They're so bratty!' But I actually think what is so appealing about them is the humor in them.
I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.
I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.
