Girl Crushes

Craftycat, surely she's forgiven now she's married to Rupert Murdoch?!

Not a crush, but I'd love to look like Anna Chancellor. She's a great actress, too.

When i was about 11 and went to a girls boarding school it was the thing to have a pash on an older girl or teacher. One of the first questions i was asked was 'who is your pash' and i thought one up fairly quickly (in order to fit in) - a rather gawky unprepossessing 6th form girl who I felt sorry for as no-one had chosen her!! There was a lot of silly nonsense including the end of term dance at Christmas where we all had a dance card and had to book partners for each dance in advance (all girls!) and we all plucked up courage to ask our pashes for a dance! This was supposed to prepare us for real life but was the first and last time i ever had a dance card! My present family all think its rather weird and suspect but it was just a bit of innocent fun and certainly not in the least sexual!

I disagree with jinglebellfrocks about girl crushes being sexual. Mine were very much about wanting to be or to emulate the people I had crushes on - sex didn't come into it in any way whatsoever

Some of my school friends had a 'pash' on the games mistress.

My nickname for her was 'grimmy'

#miserableface

I have been very aware of some of my students having a crush on me throughout my long teaching career- both girl and boy crushes. It required very careful handling.

Never had a girl crush but I did think Joanna Lumley was gorgeous & I wanted to BE her. She is still lovely now.
I HATED Jerry Hall for dating/marrying BOTH Mick Jagger & Bryan Ferry. I'd have given my eye teeth for just an hour with either of them(still would!)

I had a crush on the head girl when I was 14. I thought that it was normal too, as an avid reader of Mallory Towers. Because I thought it was normal, I told a friend and it soon got all round school and took a lot of living down. Crushes on girls were apparently a great source of amusement and a chance to ridicule the 'crusher'. I can't remember what the 'crushee' thought However I wasn't the only one as she married one of our teachers as soon as she left school.

All my crushes, whilst at school, were on pop stars, Paul McCartney at junior school and then various others Scott Walker, Davy Jones etc.

I always thought that having a 'crush' on someone involved a strong emotional pull to the person involved, beyond just admiring them.

I would suggest a ladder that goes: to fancy someone, then to have a crush on them and finally to be infatuated by them. All suggest an irrational admiration based on an emotional and sometimes (sublimated) physical attraction rather than a rational admiration of someone for their behaviour, or attainments.

LullyDully. Patti Boyd may have well bagged both George Harrison and Eric Clapton but they didn't treat her particularly well, particulary the latter, who inspite of writing "Layla" and "Beautiful Tonight" behaved quite shockingly towards her. She looked great though such an iconic '60s girl

Could be Jingle, I was in an all girls school and the other school who put on the production was an all girls school . Not long after I fancied the head boy of the all boys school

I'm not very clear on what "girl crush" means, it's crept into our language like a lot of other sayings. I've never fancied another female, but have often admired them for a whole range of things, and, have maybe wanted to emulate some aspect of their physical appearance. I can't imagine having had a crush on anyone at my school, other than maybe a crush on their shoes/hair/clothes

When I was about 12 I had a girl crush on a prefect at my all girls' school, because I thought she looked like Davy Jones. Looking back I realise it was the mono brow that they shared! Probably not a good look.

My daughter, when she was 16, had a pact with her best (girl) friend that if they didn't meet lovely men and marry them they'd 'marry' each other and become affectionate cat ladies together for the rest of the duration.

While this was met with an indulgent smile at the time, now we have same sex marriages, it strikes me as a jolly good way of cheating the tax man of some inheritance revenue. Marry your bestie and leave them the dosh.

When I was at an all girls grammar school in the 50s almost my whole class had a crush on the Latin teacher. She was a Quaker so dressed plainly & wore no makeup. It is hard to say exactly why she was so popular but we all adored her.

Bit like shysal only with me it's Julie Walters hair.

Schoolgirl crushes are purely sexual. Nothing to do with wanting to look like the object of one's feelings. I think they come about at the time of foundering with sexuality. Not really knowing what to do with such feelings, usually in the absence of access to the opposite sex. And also, at that age girls seem to be a safer bet than an actual boy.

I did when tnirteen, went to see a Gilbert & S production by a local school , the head girl played Marco, she was vey tall , had a great voice and I so wanted to look as elegant as her

Not a crush, exactly, but we have a fitness instructor who takes our aquafit class who I find rather mesmerising. She's not particularly good looking, but she she has a very attractive personality.

No crushes for me, I just covet Kirsty Allsop's eyebrows!!

No girl crushes for me but lots of women I would like as best friends- Claudia Winkleman, India Knight, Camilla Long, Zoe Ball, Rosumund Pike and lots more.

BUT all I want for Xmas is Rufus Sewell.

Yes deeda I too had crushes on the six form ".women" when I was in the first year. It felt odd to have fellow pupils who were adults. ....in fact now I look back they seemed quite middle aged.

Soon decided boys were better, though in short supply at a girl's school.
All those young , long haired beauties were a bit daunting in the 60s.
Patti Boyd stole two of my favourites, George and Eric....not fair.

I had a crush on two sixth form girls when I was about 12. I didn't want to be Patti Boyd KatyK I wanted to kill her when she married George!
As an adult I've always had a crush on the actress Rosalie Crutchley, she always looked exotic and had a wonderful voice. Nowadays I've got a bit of a crush on Emily Blunt, I don't know why but I just think she's lovely.

Nope never had a girl crush. I did admire some of the older girls at school, the non giggly, tall, confident girls who always had hair that looked good. It was boys though that I'd have a crush on.