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Motivation Quote by Michelle Wie

"I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good"

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Michelle Wie’s line lands like a shrug, but it’s a carefully placed marker in early-2000s pop culture: a young female athlete translating her life into a language the media could digest. “I don’t like going to the mall” isn’t really about retail. It’s a shorthand for the mainstream script of girlhood that tabloids and lifestyle coverage loved to peddle. By invoking “the other girls,” Wie taps into a ready-made narrative hook - the “not like other girls” posture - that both flatters the speaker (I’m singular, serious, disciplined) and reassures an audience primed to see athletic ambition in women as an exception that needs explaining.

The subtext is more complicated than tomboy branding. Golf is an aggressively coded space: private clubs, old money, tradition, and a masculinity so normalized it barely registers. For a teenage girl trying to compete in a men’s tour ecosystem and a women’s tour that still policed femininity, claiming the course as her natural habitat is a form of self-defense. It preemptively answers the question she was constantly being asked: Why are you here?

Then she pivots to sensation: “Golf is fun and feels really good.” That line dodges strategy, rankings, and pressure. It insists on pleasure, not just performance, as the justification. In a culture that often treats female excellence as either suspicious or marketable only when softened, Wie frames her drive as joy - a simple, bodily certainty - refusing to apologize for wanting the thing.

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APA Style (7th ed.)
Wie, Michelle. (2026, January 16). I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good. FixQuotes. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-going-to-the-mall-im-not-really-like-125715/

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Wie, Michelle. "I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good." FixQuotes. January 16, 2026. https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-going-to-the-mall-im-not-really-like-125715/.

MLA Style (9th ed.)
"I don't like going to the mall. I'm not really like the other girls. I just like to go out on the golf course and play. Golf is fun and feels really good." FixQuotes, 16 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/i-dont-like-going-to-the-mall-im-not-really-like-125715/. Accessed 12 Feb. 2026.

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Michelle Wie

Michelle Wie (born October 11, 1989) is a Athlete from USA.

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