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20 Quotes Only The Girl Who Is "Too Nice" Can Relate To

Being called the nice girl is much better than being called a bitch. 
Katie Mather
August 19, 2016
“When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.”
— Albert Einstein, 'Time' by Eva Hoffman
Tagged: Nice Girls, Being Nice, Nice, Relativity
“The nice girl thinks she's giving up something to get something better in return. She gives up control over her own life. When the time comes for her to get what she expected, she winds up disappointed. In addition to being empty-handed, she's depleted.”
— Sherry Argov, The Subtle Thing You’re Doing That May Cause Divorce
Tagged: Nice Girls, Contrition, Relationships
“I wish I was harder; I wish I didn't care so much about being the nice girl all the time because a lot of the time people can take kindness for weakness, so I wish I had a little bit more 'oomph' in me.”
— Tyra Banks, EXCLUSIVE: Tyra Banks Tells Her Story
Tagged: Nice Girls, kindness, Weakness
“Being a nice girl from the Mid-West, my inclination is always to give in and say yes because I want people to like me.”
— Cindy Crawford, Cindy Crawford's marriage
Tagged: Nice Girls, kindness, Mid West
“I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.”
— Kelly Price, Kelly Price Interview
Tagged: Nice Girls, Happy Girls
“The nice girl meets a guy and acts like she joined a cult. In the beginning, a guy might ask her what she likes. The nice girl makes the mistake of shrugging her shoulders and saying: 'I like anything you like.'”
— Sherry Argov, The Subtle Thing You’re Doing That May Cause Divorce
Tagged: Nice Girls, Contrition, Relationships
“All southern girls are raised to be nice and polite, can't be anything but, regardless of how mean spirited we might be deep down. The illusion of sweetness, that's all that counts. We don't have to be sincerely sweet, but by God we have to be good at faking it.”
— Cassandra King, The Same Sweet Girls
Tagged: Nice Girls, Southern Girls, Sweetness
“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 good at my job and I'm great with kids and I held my mother's hand when she died, after four years of holding her hand while she was dying, and I speak to my father ever day on the telephone—every day, mind you, and what kind of weather do you have on your side of the river, because here it's pretty gray and a big muggy too? It was supposed to say 'Great Artist' on my tombstone, but if I died right now it would say 'Such a good teacher/daughter/friend' instead; and what I really want to shout, and want in big letters on that grave, too, is FUCK YOU ALL.”
— Claire Messud, The Woman Upstairs (Vintage Contemporaries)
Tagged: Nice Girls, Good Girls, Sweet Girls
“Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family.”
— Laura Wiess, Such a Pretty Girl
Tagged: Nice Girls
“Being called the nice girl is way better than being called a bitch.”
— Lauren Conrad, 16 Lauren Conrad Quotes You Should Live By
Tagged: Nice Girls, Bitch
“You try to be good, to be good and loving and nice and not hard, not tough, a sweet nice girl, not ugly, not full of ugliness, but people make it impossible.”
— Michelle Tea, The Chelsea Whistle
Tagged: Nice Girls
“I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl.”
— Robin Tunney, Good Girls Versus Bad Girls and Being Mean
Tagged: Nice Girls, Good Girls
“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 LARRY KING LIVE Interview With "Growing Pains" Star Tracey Gold
Tagged: Nice Girls, Good Girls, Growing Up
“Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.”
— Jennifer Jason Leigh, An Aspiring Hollywood Heavyweight, Jennifer Jason Leigh Lands a Fat Role as An Anorexic
Tagged: Nice Girls, Good Girls
“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 ) and did not handle her mistakes with humor (has to do everything right).”
— Rachel Simmons, The Curse of the Good Girl: Raising Authentic Girls with Courage and Confidence
Tagged: Nice Girls, Good Girls
“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, Her Life In Progress
Tagged: Good Girls, Nice Girls
“Being nice doesn't necessarily mean you're weak. You can be nice and be strong at the same time.”
— Shelley Moore Capito, Be Nice - It's Good For Business, And It's Good For You
Tagged: Good Girls, Nice Girls
“Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.”
— Dwayne Johnson, Let The Rock Inspire You To Be Your Best Self
Tagged: Good Girls, Nice Girls, kindness
“No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.”
— Lillie Langtry, The Days I Knew
Tagged: Nice Girls, Good Girls
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”
— Laurell K. Hamilton, A Stroke of Midnight
Tagged: Nice Girls, Niceness, kindness