GIRL in Classic Quotes

1  A young girl walked to the witness stand.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

2  Jean Louise," she said, "you are a fortunate girl.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 24

3  A little girl came to the cabin door and stood looking at Atticus.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 25

4  Jem said it might work if I cried and flung a fit, being young and a girl.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

5  You know she's not used to girls," said Jem, "leastways, not girls like you.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 23

6  He also said Aunt Alexandra didn't understand girls much, she'd never had one.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 9

7  "That yard's a mighty long place for little girls to cross at night," Jem teased.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 28

8  Miss Mayella," said Atticus, in spite of himself, "a nineteen-year-old girl like you must have friends.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18

9  He staked me out, marked as his property, said I was the only girl he would ever love, then he neglected me.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

10  She seemed glad to see me when I appeared in the kitchen, and by watching her I began to think there was some skill involved in being a girl.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 12

11  Mrs. Dubose lived alone except for a Negro girl in constant attendance, two doors up the street from us in a house with steep front steps and a dog-trot hall.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

12  But I kept aloof from their more foolhardy schemes for a while, and on pain of being called a girl, I spent most of the remaining twilights that summer sitting with Miss Maudie Atkinson on her front porch.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 5

13  I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

14  I was not so sure, but Jem told me I was being a girl, that girls always imagined things, that's why other people hated them so, and if I started behaving like one I could just go off and find some to play with.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 4

15  We had just come to her gate when Jem snatched my baton and ran flailing wildly up the steps into Mrs. Dubose's front yard, forgetting everything Atticus had said, forgetting that she packed a pistol under her shawls, forgetting that if Mrs. Dubose missed, her girl Jessie probably wouldn't.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 1: Chapter 11

16  As she raised her hand and swore that the evidence she gave would be the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth so help her God, she seemed somehow fragile-looking, but when she sat facing us in the witness chair she became what she was, a thick-bodied girl accustomed to strenuous labor.

To Kill a Mockingbird By Harper Lee
Context   In PART 2: Chapter 18