“I'll sit down with her, bad girl to bad girl.”— Danny McBride, John Carcieri, Jeff Fradley, Judy Gemstone, Edi Patterson, imdb.com
“Liam: Hey Annie, I was thinking about those theories of yours and I want to offer another theory. Maybe I'm just curious about you. Annie: What do you mean you're curious? Liam: Well, I don't know. You throw a shower for something you don't feel like celebrating. You act like a good girl but you're…”— Jennifer Cecil, Liam Court, Matt Lanter, imdb.com
“Ricky Ricardo: Lucy, were you snooping? Lucy Ricardo: Yes I was a bad girl and you can spank me tomorrow if there's anything left to spank!”— Jess Oppenheimer, Madelyn Pugh, Lucy Ricardo, Lucille Ball, imdb.com
“I wish for a speedy death to the chill girl within all of us, a kiss of death to the malleable shell of ourselves surviving only on our socialized compulsion to people please. And a long and fruitful life to the woman who has patiently been waiting underneath.”— Martine Thompson, vogue.com
“Somewhere, there is a version of me that isn’t neck- deep in her invented filth”— Franny Choi, theoffingmag.com
“& O! When I say less I mean as in classically beautiful, flaws spilling out of my mouth like sexy moon rocks. I cut out men’s tongues & I sharpen myself & I’m scary & I’m bossy: I’m the chick who raises snakes like a volcano.”— Morgan Parker, amazon.com
“So I am a ‘bad woman’ because I take up space, wear whatever I want, curse if I want to, laugh entirely too loudly, believe in things I find believable, and I don’t take no shit.”— Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, zine.philaprint.com
“A ‘good girl’ as I have seen it defined: goes to church, marries ‘right,’ dresses modestly, never raises her voice, always smiles, is always friendly and approachable, never curses, doesn’t drink or only drinks the appropriate amount of alcohol, does not gossip, does not stir the pot, and is emotion…”— Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez, zine.philaprint.com
“The only thing wrong with the seven deadly sins is that there aren't more of them.”— Lisa Joy, Jonathan Nolan, Maeve Millay, Thandie Newton, imdb.com
“Rihanna got a thing with her where she can–she leave the guy looking like they was the girls. They like [sighs]. They be hurt. Only person other than her is Erykah Badu. They come back different. I don’t even want that kind of pussy. Keep that. What kinda booty is that?!”— 50 Cent, wetpaint.com
“Personally, I thank Good Girls Gone Bad [music artists] for giving me the blueprint for ignoring those around me who felt the need to tell me who I was. There will always be detractors, and someone will always think you are ‘faking it,’ but none of that matters if you know that this new and ever-cha…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“The truth is this: No one stays the same forever. Girls grow up, and sometimes we do it with a bang. We can learn something from the Good Girls Gone Bad of every decade: how to claim yourself, how to rewrite your narrative, that it’s never too late to change.”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“I’ve seen many ‘good girls go bad,’ but I specifically remember when Rihanna named her fourth album after the trope, effectively putting the industry on notice: We were about to encounter an entirely new woman... Being a young woman is complex. We’re told, in some capacity, that our silence protects…”— Michelle Ofiwe, rookiemag.com
“That bad-girl cultural icon with her stash of flavored condoms and a closet of clubwear isn't more in touch with her sex drive or more authentic about her sexuality than a Good Girl is.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com