“I was reading Raymond Chandler very much with the feminist eye. In six of his seven novels, it's the woman who presents herself in a sexual way, who is the main bad person. And then you start reading more fiction, whether crime fiction or straight fiction, it's just bad girls trying to make good boys do bad things, going all the way back to Adam and Eve. The woman that thou gavest me made me do it, Adam says to God.” WayTryingPersonsMadeEyeGirlReadingFictionBoysNovelCrimeSixSevenFeministBad ThingsAdamCrime FictionAdam And EveBad GirlGood BoyReading More Author:Sara Paretsky
“When I was a young boy in San Francisco, I remember being sent home - I was playing with a friend. And I remember the mother saying, tell Jeffrey to go home. And I said to the girl, I said, why? She goes, my mother says that you're the people who killed Christ.” PeopleSaidHomeRememberYoungMotherGirlChristBoysSan Francisco Author:Jeffrey Tambor
“And there were sort of three toys for boys and three toys for girls. And the boys I can remember was, well, there was a Dan Dare Ray Gun. Dan Dare was a sort of a cartoon character. He was just sort of a - he was like a Battle of Britain fighter pilot, only in space.” WellsI CanCharacterRememberGirlThreeSpaceBoysBattleGunDareFighterBritainRaysPilotsToysCartoonCartoon CharacterFighter PilotBattle Of Britain Author:Nick Lowe
“I remember realizing, when I did Little Women [1994], that that was the only time girls that age were being written about. It was always boys - from David Copperfield to Lord of the Flies to Holden Caulfield. There were never young women going through adolescence or teen years; there were only little girls.” YearsLittlesAgeRememberYoungGirlRealizingLordBoysWrittenYoung WomenAdolescenceOnly TimeLittle WomenHoldenHolden Caulfield Author:Winona Ryder
“I don't want to play into the perception that all women should look like fourteen year old boys. I don't want to add to that pressure for young girls. But in Hollywood, there is a constant pressure to look a certain way.” WayWantShouldYearsLooksPlayYoungCertainGirlBoysPerceptionHollywoodPressureConstantAddFourteen Author:Amber Heard
“I take my role as an ambassador for the sport, and as a role model for boys, girls, mommies, daddies - whoever it is - very, very seriously. I know the impact my role models have had in my life, and I'm in a really beautiful position to be able to be that for others.” KnowsAbleBeautifulGirlSportsBoysRolesPositionModelsImpactRole ModelsDaddyAmbassadorsReally BeautifulBoy Girl Author:Kerri Walsh
“Because of my comedic-influence growing up, Mel Brooks, Jim Carrey, Steve Martin… A lot of Jeff comedic-influences included Charlie Chaplin and physical comedians of the silent-era. What we were able to do together is to show all these major influences but make it into our own comedy. We've seen the stereotypical boy-meets-girl story a hundred thousand times…” StoriesShowsAbleTogetherGirlBoysGrowing UpComedyGrowingInfluenceThousandMajorsHundredSilentErasComedianCharlieBrooksComedicChaplinBoy Meets Girl Author:J. Robert Spencer
“When I got the beat, in my imagination I was catapulted into this club where all the boys and girls are looking hot and wearing amazing clothes, and there's this girl dancing and looking better than me.” GirlImaginationBoysClothesBeatsHotDancingClubsMy ImaginationBoy And GirlThis Girl Author:Katy B
“In some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.” WorldGirlSexAttitudeBoysIndiaPopulationChinaDiscriminationSelectionKoreaBoy And GirlImbalanceBoy GirlSex Discrimination Author:Michael Sandel
“I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm walking down the street.” ProblemGirlBoysStreetsWalkingHeavySkinnyBoyish Author:Angelina Jolie
“You know, boy versus girl. But she's a tough warrior, so I almost treated it like unisex. But it makes a difference how tall the actors are, because I needed to know that if Olivia Wilde sits in a car that the director, Joe Kosinski can still get the angle he wants, as opposed to maybe in another vehicle than Jeff Bridges has to sit in. So that was fascinating. Because in a real car you change everything and adjust it. But here you have one shot.” IfsKnowsWantStillsRealGirlActorsDifferencesBoysCarNeededDirectorsShotsToughTreatedWarriorBridgesMaking A DifferenceFascinatingTallVehicleAngleVersusWildeOliviaUnisex Author:Daniel Simon
“When the Irish nun said to me, "Speak your name loud and clear so that all the boys and girls can hear you," she was asking me to use language publicly, with strangers. That's the appropriate instruction for a teacher to give. If she were to say to me, "We are going to speak now in Spanish, just like you do at home. You can whisper anything you want to me, and I am going to call you by a nickname, just like your mother does," that would be inappropriate. Intimacy is not what classrooms are about.” IfsWantGivingDoeSaidUseHomeWould BeMotherGirlNamesSpeakLanguageBoysClearTeacherLike YouAskingStrangerIntimacyLoudAppropriateInstructionClassroomNunInappropriateBoy And GirlNicknamesSpeak Now Author:Richard Rodriguez
“It took me a long time to realize that being a girl is so much more powerful than being a guy, but I really saw myself as boy for a long while.” LongGuyGirlRealizingPowerfulBoysSawsLong TimeBeing A Girl Author:Lizzy Caplan
“Parents tend to name all of baby boys' body parts, but with girls they go from belly button to knees with this void in the middle. That doesn't change as kids go into puberty.” BodyKidsGirlNamesParentBoysMiddleBabyKneesVoidButtonsBellyPubertyBaby BoyBelly Buttons Author:Peggy Orenstein
“Sex-ed courses look at girl's internal parts: for boys it's about ejaculation, erection and wet dreams; for girls, it's periods and unwanted pregnancy. We never talk to girls about sexual self-exploration or self-knowledge.” LooksSelfDreamGirlCoursesSexBoysPeriodsInternalsExplorationPregnancyWetSelf KnowledgeUnwantedEjaculationWet DreamsUnwanted Pregnancy Author:Peggy Orenstein
“Girls would say: "I have a boyfriend for that." So in addition to putting their pleasure literally into someone else's hands - an inept teenage boy - these are the same girls who say they do not climax with a partner. It's the opposite with boys; they say because they can do that themselves, girls should perform oral sex.” ShouldHandsGirlSexCan DoPleasureBoysOppositesPartnersTeenageClimax Author:Peggy Orenstein
“Girls are removing pubic hair before fully having it. They would say I feel cleaner, it's for me, but then they'd say if a boy saw pubic hair down there they'd head for the hills.” IfsFeelsGirlBoysSawsHairHillsCleanersPubic Hair Author:Peggy Orenstein
“A lot of what happens in consensual encounters and in the way we talk to both girls and boys about sex creates a medium in which assault flourishes.” WayHappensGirlSexBoysMediumsEncountersAssaultBoy And Girl Author:Peggy Orenstein
“I've grown up well, partly because there weren't great girls' literature - Nancy Drew, maybe - but there weren't things. So there was Huck Finn and "Spin And Marty." The boys characters were interesting and you lived through them when you're watching it.” WellsCharacterGirlLiteratureInterestingBoysNancyNancy DrewMarty Author:Meryl Streep
“We're going to Surf City, gonna have some fun. Now, two girls for every boy.” TwoSongGirlFunCitiesBoysSurf Author:Jan Brett
“I was a boy in the ads I did as a child. My sister was the girl, and I was the boy. I had short hair and I was in overalls and I was giving flowers to my sister Daisy, who fit their model of what a girl was supposed to look like.” GivingLooksChildrenGirlBoysFlowerHairFitModelsMy SisterAdsDaisiesShort HairOveralls Author:Rose McGowan
“I don't know how in the twenty-first century we can possibly justify not showing girls things that they can aspire to, and at the same time, how can we possibly be showing boys this narrow vision of what women are and what they can be.” KnowsFirstsGirlVisionBoysKnow HowCenturyTwentiesJustifyAspireGirl Thing Author:Geena Davis
“We are worse off - all of us, including men and boys - if our society is not developing and empowering 100% of the resources of humanity, including women and girls.” IfsMenHumanityGirlBoysResourcesIncludingDevelopingEmpoweringOur Society Author:Sally Kohn
“Have you ever noticed the perfection of nature? The seasons and how one changes into the next, the falling leaves, composting soil, rains, new seedlings, sunshine, growth, blossoms, etc. Grass grows, deer eats grass, lion eats deer, deer population is stabilized so there is grass for other animals; sunrise and sunset, boy and girl, winter and summer.” FallGirlNextGrowsGrowthAnimalBoysSummerRainPerfectionSeasonsWinterPopulationGrassSoilSunsetEtcSunshineLionsSunriseDeerBoy And GirlSunrise And SunsetFalling LeavesSeedlings Author:Bryan Kest
“Housework comes first, so girls often fall behind in school. Global statistics show that it's increasingly girls, not boys, who don't know how to read.” KnowsFirstsShowsSchoolFallGirlBehindsBoysKnow HowStatisticsHousework Author:Melinda Gates
“We also ought to recognize that unpaid labor falls predominantly to women. The other thing I would do in countries like the U.S. is to show more men, even in TV ads, doing household work. Only two percent of ads show men doing chores, and yet we know they actually do several hours of it in real life. Those images affect young boys and girls.” KnowsMenTwoRealCountryShowsYoungFallGirlHoursBoysTvsOughtPercentLaborReal LifeAdsHouseholdShow MeChoresBoy And Girl Author:Melinda Gates
“Around the world we have girls in primary school at about the same rate now as boys, but keeping them in quality secondary schools is where the world is lagging. I'm seeing a lot of countries look at this now.” WorldLooksCountrySchoolGirlQualityBoysSeeingRateAround The WorldPrimariesPrimary SchoolSecondary School Author:Melinda Gates
“If you can't go to secondary school, the boys get to go and the girls don't, you're locked into a cycle of poverty, because you don't have a chance.” IfsSchoolGirlChanceBoysPovertyCyclesLockedSecondary SchoolCycle Of Poverty Author:Melinda Gates
“Education is key. We have to keep girls in school and give them the same opportunities that boys have. They need access to vocational training and mentorship, as well. It's an issue of gender equality, which is fortunately a hot topic right now, but we need to keep at it and not rest on our laurels.” NeedsGivingWellsSchoolGirlOpportunityBoysIssuesKeysRight NowTrainingHotGenderAccessTopicsGender EqualityLaurelsHot TopicVocational Training Author:Gillian Anderson
“There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to happen.” PeopleTwoHappensFilmGirlActingBoysImpossibleFrontsTestsCamerasChemistryWhispering Author:Cillian Murphy
“The whole point of why I'm doing this is to show all kids, boys and girls, that women take up half the space and do half of the interesting things in the world and have half of the dreams and ambitions. Our slogan is, "If they see it, they can be it."” IfsWorldWholeShowsDreamKidsGirlSpaceInterestingHalfBoysAmbitionSlogansInteresting ThingsBoy And Girl Author:Geena Davis
“I met the former president of Iceland [Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir] once. I think she was president for, like, 16 years or something. She said she used to get letters from little boys saying, "Madam President, do you think it will ever be possible for a boy to be president?" Just like we assume that girls can't be politicians, they were assuming boys can't. That's what they thought. It's so crazy.” ThinkingYearsLittlesSaidUsedGirlPresidentBoysCrazyPoliticianMetsLettersAssumingFormerLittle BoysThat GirlIceland Author:Geena Davis
“You can write songs about your comic books and the girl or boy you sort of know and your mom and dad and it's all right there in front of you.” KnowsWritingBookSongGirlBoysFrontsMomDadComicComic BookYour MomMom And Dad Author:Scott McClanahan
“I haven't had surgery. I've had my teeth done, which was a massive insecurity for me. But I'm one hundred percent happy. It's difficult, not just for people in the media, but for everyone - young girls and boys - especially in high school.” PeopleDoneSchoolYoungGirlDifficultBoysMediaHavensPercentHundredHigh SchoolTeethInsecurityMassiveSurgeryBoy And Girl Author:Cher Lloyd
“I think just being a '90s kid - I was not a Backstreet Boys girl, I was definitely into NSYNC.” ThinkingKidsGirlBoysJust BeingBackstreetBoy GirlBackstreet BoysNsync Author:Jillian Hervey
“I want these to be names that young girls and boys and kids of all genders grow up knowing. It shouldn't just be when you take a feminist class in college, if you happen to do that. I hope this is fun and engaging for folks to watch.” IfsWantHappensKidsYoungGirlNamesFunGrowsClassBoysWatchesGrowing UpKnowingCollegeFolksFeministGenderEngagingBoy And Girl Author:Anita Sarkeesian
“One of the things is that I've been very comfortable in every situation starting ministry in the inner city and ministering in places - Washington, D.C., feeding the homeless, the hurting, going to broken boys and girls. So culturally I understood all different aspects of life - from extremely wealthy to extreme poverty, socioeconomic differences, ethnic differences.” DifferentGirlDifferencesHurtCitiesSituationBoysPovertyBrokenComfortableUnderstoodAspectStartingExtremesWealthyMinistryHomelessFeedingBoy And GirlAspects Of LifeInner CityExtreme Poverty Author:Paula White
“I want to be the voice for those people who are going through the same thing, like little African American boys and girls getting bullied at school.” PeopleWantLittlesSchoolGirlVoiceBoysAfrican AmericanBulliedBoy And Girl Author:Normani Hamilton
“As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.” LongProblemBodySeemsGuyGirlBoysGrowing UpGrowingLong TimeFemaleFemale BodyGirls Growing Up Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim