“Trust me, Nice Girls can turn into real women, as long as they accept that this is not the way to make a relationship go.”— Tracy Moore, melmagazine.com
“She didn't want to be a 'nice girl.' She wanted to be someone who left you with your words caught in your throat and your mind stuck on her soul. She'd like to think she was capable of being hard to forget. But you never remember the nice girls.”— MB, instagram.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
“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
“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
“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