In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.
Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.
I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.
Most people would think if you're the prime news anchor, then you should sort of be this Edward R. Murrow, Clark Kent guy with the family and 2.5 kids - or the perky, cute yet smart Katie Couric.
I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.'
When I was writing 'You Suck,' in 2006, I constructed the diction of the book's narrator, perky Goth girl Abby Normal, from what I read on Goth blog sites.
If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.
Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.
I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.
There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.