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

“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 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

“Being a good girl means suppressing a lot.”

— Jennifer Jason Leigh, people.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

“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, amazon.com

“Being called the nice girl is way better than being called a bitch.”

— Lauren Conrad, selflovebeauty.com

“Be good. Be a nice girl. Don't ruin our happy family.”

— Laura Wiess, amazon.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

“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, amazon.com

“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, huffingtonpost.com

“I was the happy nice girl, and I am the happy nice girl, but I have my moments, too.”

— Kelly Price, eurweb.com

“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, movies.ndtv.com

“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, abcnews.go.com

“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, huffingtonpost.com

“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, articles.latimes.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

“Not only do I think being nice and kind is easy but being kind, in my opinion, is important.”

— Dwayne Johnson, mtv.com

“No person in the world ever lost anything by being nice to me.”

— Lillie Langtry, amazon.com

“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, amazon.com