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  • The blonde streaks at the front of her long hair owed their origins to Audrey Hepburn's character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's -- and Steinem's appreciation for Golightly's determination not to lose her freedom in a relationship based on "belonging to another person."

    Marcia G. Yerman: Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism Marcia G. Yerman 2011

  • The blonde streaks at the front of her long hair owed their origins to Audrey Hepburn's character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's -- and Steinem's appreciation for Golightly's determination not to lose her freedom in a relationship based on "belonging to another person."

    Marcia G. Yerman: Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism Marcia G. Yerman 2011

  • The blonde streaks at the front of her long hair owed their origins to Audrey Hepburn's character Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's -- and Steinem's appreciation for Golightly's determination not to lose her freedom in a relationship based on "belonging to another person."

    Marcia G. Yerman: Gloria: In Her Own Words -- A Life in Activism Marcia G. Yerman 2011

  • But Doc Golightly's proud earnest eyes and sweat-stained hat made me ashamed of such anticipations.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • But Doc Golightly's proud earnest eyes and sweat-stained hat made me ashamed of such anticipations.

    Breakfast At Tiffany's Capote, Truman, 1924- 1958

  • Golightly's felicitations were sincere and spasmodically sympathetic, but he found it impossible to conceal the fact that of late the world had not smiled equally upon him.

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • The men were talking in Golightly's room over easeful

    A Daughter of To-Day Sara Jeannette Duncan

  • His next pony was rather a brute at starting, and Golightly's hands being slippery with the rain, contrived to get rid of Golightly at a corner.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • He yielded to his luck, and at that point the down-train from Lahore came in carrying one of Golightly's Majors.

    Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900

  • Frank Robertson, with his mother and sisters, rushed out to find a white-faced Rosalind, spent and nearly fainting, sitting limply on Golightly's back.

    The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 Various 1899

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