There was a little girl,
Who had a little curl,
Right in the middle of her forehead.
When she was good,
She was very good indeed,
But when she was bad she was horrid.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The hair is the richest ornament of women.”
-Martin Luther
“I wanted to do my hair like that. Sometimes people just don’t get things until months later.”
-Jennifer Lopez on her curly hair at the Oscars
“Sweet 16 today
She’s lookin’ like her mama
A little more every day
One part woman
The other part girl
To perfume and make up
From ribbons and curls”
-Bob Carlisle, “Butterfly Kisses”
“Hair style is the final tip-off whether or not a woman really knows herself.”
-Hubert de Givenchy, Vogue, July 1985
“Well, the straight haired girls
They all want curls
And the brunettes wanna be blonde
…I keep looking for something more”
-Sara Evans, “I Keep Looking”
“Never shall a young man,
Thrown into despair
By those great undulating
Ramparts at your ear,
Love you for yourself alone
And not your curly hair.”
“But I can get a flat iron
And make such tresses there,
Tame, or smooth, or stick-straight
That young men in despair
May love me for myself alone
And not my curly hair.”
“I heard an old religious man
But yesternight declare
That he had found a text to prove
That only God, my dear,
Could love you for yourself alone
And not your curly hair.”
-edited by Melinda Lavorante from the original
by W.B. Yeats called “For Anne Gregory”
“She’s my curly headed baby
She’s from sunny Tennessee
She’s my curly headed baby
She’s more than all the world to me
Yodeleyie-ie-ie-ie”
-Doc Watson, “Curly Headed Baby”
“She wore scarlet begonias tucked into her curls
I knew right away she was not like other girls, other girls”
-Robert Hunter
“Then I met a girl
With a head full of curls
A pure and innocent heart
Oh, I knew she was the one”
-Vince Gill, “Whippoorwill River”
“Sunday she’s all ribbons and curls
Rock my world little Country girl”
-Brooks & Dunn, “Rock My World”
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