“Boys are sent out into the world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct - girls are to dwell in quiet homes among few friends, to exercise a noiseless influence.” WorldHomeGirlBoysInfluenceExerciseQuietDirectTemptationSexismBuffetsFew Friends Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
“The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.” WayChildrenTodaySchoolGirlResultsBoysDirectOur ChildrenTreatedArabiaSaudi ArabiaSaudisBoy And Girl Author:Basmah bint Saud
“I think we all live dichotomies. I'm a father of three boys and a loyal homebody sort of husband and father. And yet I act in movies and write and direct movies.” ThinkingWritingThreeFatherBoysHusbandDirectLoyalDichotomyHomebodiesHusband And Father Author:Tim Blake Nelson
“The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.” WorldChildrenHomeSchoolGirlBoysInfluencePositionFitExerciseQuietDirectConnectionsAimCrowdsTemptationSupposed To BeWheelsRetiringEducatePreparingHereafterMillsBuffetsSubmissiveFew FriendsAim Of Education Author:Elizabeth Missing Sewell
“Raising boys has made me a more generous woman than I really am. Undoubtedly, there are other routes to learning the wishes and dreams of the presumably opposite sex, but I know of none more direct, or more highly motivating, than being the mother of sons.” KnowsMadeDreamMotherWishSexBoysSonDirectOppositesGenerousRoutes Author:Mary Blakely
“Since I got to the big leagues, there's been a whole lot of Direct-TV sold in Jamestown. People like to keep up with the local boy.” PeopleWholeBigsBoysTvsDirectLocalsLeagueJamestown Author:Darin Erstad
“Most directors, I discovered, need to be convinced that the screenplay they're going to direct has something to do with them. And this is a tricky thing if you write screenplays where women have parts that are equal to or greater than the male part. And I thought, 'Why am I out there looking for directors?'—because you look at a list of directors, it's all boys. It certainly was when I started as a screenwriter. So I thought, 'I'm just gonna become a director and that'll make it easier.'” IfsNeedsWritingLooksBoysGreaterEasierDirectorsEqualDirectMalesConvincedListsTrickyScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Nora Ephron
“Wal-Mart has become the whipping boy for political demagogues, unions and anti-traders. I suggest that they have the wrong target.... Wal-Mart exists and prospers because tens of millions of Americans find Wal-Mart to be a suitable source of goods and services..... unions and anti-traders should direct their outrage and condemnation at the tens of millions of Americans who shop at Wal-Mart and keep it in business.” ShouldPoliticalBoysMillionsSourceDirectUnionsShopsTargetGoodsOutrageSuitableCondemnationTradersGoods And ServicesWhipping Author:Walter E. Williams
“I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn’t know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, ‘Mom, I don’t like direct sunlight, I don’t like bugs, I don’t like grass, and I’d rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.’” KnowsMadeSaidPlayMotherDesireHouseInterestingBoysMomGayDirectBaseballGrassSunlightFabricBugsSample Author:Nate Berkus
“'As Long As I Know I'm Getting Paid' is a satire. Lyrically, I want to be direct. With my history in Fall Out Boy, there's some expectation that I'm going to be lyrically obtuse. But that song is a straight-faced satire of consumerism.” KnowsWantLongSongFallBoysExpectationsDirectPaidSatireConsumerismFall Out Boy Author:Patrick Stump