“Someone once said; 'It’s the good girls who keep diaries. The bad girls never have the time.' Me… I just wanna live a life I’m gonna remember. Even if I don’t write it down…”— Stacy Rukeyser, Brooke Davis, Sophia Bush, imdb.com
“Peggy: I think she's good at everything. I think she's just one of those girls. Joan: Then you had every right to be hard on her.”— Matthew Weiner, Peggy Olson, Elisabeth Moss, imdb.com
“Don’t get me wrong. You can still be a bad girl and be kind. You can still be compassionate. But you’ve got to have that feistiness. You’ve got to be able to fight back when needed. You’ve got to be able to choose yourself over some asshole who’s not even willing to give you the time of day – each a…”— Katerina Lolita, thoughtcatalog.com
“I’d much rather you be a bad girl. The kind who takes no shit. The kind who has pride in herself. The kind who knows what she wants and goes after it, even when society is afraid it will make her too powerful.”— Katerina Lolita, thoughtcatalog.com
“Women are human beings, with the full range of saintly and demonic behaviours this entails.”— Margaret Atwood, theglobeandmail.com
“Here's a news flash for you: bad girls actually aren't having that much fun.”— Sheila Wray Gregoire, amazon.com
“Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.”— Dwayne Johnson, mtv.com
“Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time.”— Shelley Moore Capito, linkedin.com
“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.”— Golshifteh Farahani, annaveskamani.tumblr.com
“The Good Girl walked a treacherous line, balancing mixed messages about how far she should go and how strong she should be: she was to be enthusiastic while being quiet; smart with no opinions on things; intelligent but a follower; popular but quiet. She would be something, but not too much.”— Rachel Simmons, amazon.com
“The Good Girl was socially and academically successful, smart and driven, pretty and kind. But she was also an individual who aimed to please (people pleaser), toed the line (no opinions on things) and didn’t take risks (follows the rules). She repressed what she really thought (doesn’t get mad ) an…”— Rachel Simmons, amazon.com
“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.”— Tracey Gold, cnn.com
“I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.”— Robin Tunney, huffingtonpost.com
“I'm a good girl. I'm a nice girl. I'm a straight-A, strait-laced, good daughter, good career girl, and I never stole anybody's boyfriend and I never ran out on a girlfriend, and I put up with my parents' shit and brother's shit and I'm not a girl anyhow, I'm over forty fucking years old, and I'm goo…”— Claire Messud, amazon.com