Working Girl Quotes:

I always think of myself as a working girl.

- Dolly Parton

topic: Girl, Thinking, Working Girl

I'm a hard-working girl. I go to the office. I work a normal 9 to 5 job most days.

- Petra Stunt

topic: Girl, Jobs, Hard Work, Working Girl

I don't believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are only the things that make me happy.

- Whoopi Goldberg

topic: Girl, Moving, Believe, Working Girl

Sometimes I sing and dance around the house in my underwear. Doesn't make me Madonna. Never will.

- Joan Cusack

topic: House, Underwear, Sometimes, Working Girl

I never thought of myself as a movie star. I'm just a working girl. A working girl who worked her way to the top -- and never fell off.

- Susan Hayward

topic: Girl, Stars, Way, Working Girl

How important it is for us to recognize and celebrate our heroes and she-roes!

- Maya Angelou

topic: Veterans Day, Women, Hero, Fireman, Women Equality

Women are not inherently passive or peaceful. We're not inherently anything but human.

- Robin Morgan

source: Robin Morgan (2014). “Going Too Far: The Personal Chronicle of a Feminist”, p.71, Open Road Media

topic: Justice, Peaceful, Passive, Women's Rights, Working Girl

...And you're the only one who knows.

- Billy Joel

topic: Morning Inspirational, Look Inside Yourself, Working Girl, Beautiful Baby, Beautiful Morning

To love what you do and feel that it matters - how could anything be more fun?

- Katharine Graham

topic: Motivational, Fun, Matter, Working Girl, Having A Positive Attitude

If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting.

- Katharine Hepburn

topic: Work, Interesting, Support, Working Girl

I don't aestheticize anything. I don't even use lights. The working girls do one thing all day: They make themselves pretty. That's their job and their money. In a way, I had the best makeup artists, hairdressers, and art designers in the world.

- Michael Glawogger

topic: Girl, Art, Jobs, Working Girl, Makeup Artist

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.

- George Bernard Shaw

topic: Inspirational, Success, Leadership, Working So Hard, Just Give Up

I thought Victoria Beckham was going to be one of those pop girls, but she's absolutely the complete opposite. She's a working girl. She knows what she wants. And when she doesn't know, she really prepares herself. I love this working type of women. And she's a girl from - I don't even know where she's from.

- Manolo Blahnik

source: Interview with Tim Blanks, www.interviewmagazine.com. February 13, 2013.

topic: Girl, Opposites, Want, Complete Opposites, Beckham

This was how the modern working girl behaved. She didn’t hide her femininity or apologize for it, as they did in the old days. She flaunted it and, having been given more than any woman before her, demanded even more than that.

- J. Courtney Sullivan

source: J. Courtney Sullivan (2013). “The Engagements”, p.176, Vintage

topic: Girl, Apologizing, Modern, Working Girl

Working-girls, in pairs and groups and swarms, loitered by these windows, choosing their future boudoirs from some resplendent display which included even a man's silk pajamas laid domestically across the bed. They stood in front of the jewelry stores and picked out their engagement rings, and their wedding rings and their platinum wrist watches, and then drifted on to inspect the feather fans and opera cloaks; meanwhile digesting the sandwiches and Sundaes they had eaten for lunch.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

source: F. Scott Fitzgerald (2015). “Babylon Revisited and Other Stories (Fitzgerald’s Greatest Short Stories): A Collection of short stories from the author of The Great Gatsby, The Side of Paradise, Tender Is the Night, The Beautiful and Damned, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and many other notable works”, p.29, e-artnow

topic: Girl, Men, Ice Cream, Boudoir, Sundaes

I doubt if any doctor could recommend a more nourishing breakfast for a working girl in a hurry.

- Marilyn Monroe

topic: Girl, Real, Doctors, Working Girl

Look, I know what you're thinking. You're thinking I said no because the whole thing would just be too Dirty Dancing , right? Summer fling at the resort, only with the roles reversed: you know, the poor working girl and the rich doctor's son, nobody puts Baby in the corner, blah blah blah. That kind of thing.

- Meg Cabot

source: Meg Cabot (2009). “Young Blood”, p.26, Pan Macmillan

topic: Summer, Girl, Baby, Summer Fling, Working Girl

I never think about Wall Street - why should I - but to go down there so often while filming 'Working Girl,' to become acquainted with this whole different world, and to find out what goes on behind the scenes, is so interesting. There's so much of the city that you don't really bother to investigate. Ahh... New York.

- Sigourney Weaver

topic: Girl, New York, Wall, Working Girl

I was quite naïve, a boy from Southport. When I went to art college in Leeds, I lived in a basement flat, and I heard clunking on the stairs all night, and I thought it was just nurses going to work on the night shift at the local hospital! Then I found out it was all working girls upstairs. I suppose I came from a protected background and had my eyes opened wide by that side of city life.

- Marc Almond

source: Source: thequietus.com

topic: Girl, Art, Eye, Working Girl, Upstairs