There is so much woman in many a girl and too much boy in many a man.
Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy.
(n.) State or time of being a girl.
All her young life she has tried to please her father, never quite realizing that, as a girl, she never could.
It is not possible for girlhood to be represented wholly—girlhood is too vast and too individual an experience.