“I definitely think that females have a harder time. It's a lot harder to be a girl because you're always in your head. I've heard my brother go and take it out on the football as he says. Whereas girls would rather sit down and over think things.” ThinkingGirlHeardFootballBrotherFemaleHarderDown AndMy Brother Author:Nikki Reed
“It was hard to speed the male child up the stony heights of erudition, but it was harder still to check the female child at the crucial point, and keep her tottering decorously behind her brother.” ChildrenStillsHardBehindsEducationBrotherFemaleHarderMalesSpeedChecksInequalityHeightCrucialErudition Book:A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays Source: A Happy Half-century: And Other Essays
“Will it be said that the judgment of a male of two years old, is more sage than that of a female's of the same age? I believe the reverse is generally observed to be true. But from that period what partiality! how is the one exalted, and the other depressed, by the contrary modes of education which are adopted! the one is taught to aspire, and the other is early confined and limited. As their years increase, the sister must be wholly domesticated, while the brother is led by the hand through all the flowery paths of science.” YearsBelieveSaidTwoHandsAgeI BelievePathTaughtBrotherPeriodsJudgmentFemaleIncreaseMalesContraryBeing TrueInequalityTwo YearsSexismReverseAspireSageAdoptedConfinedExaltedTwo Year OldsPartiality Book:Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray Source: Selected Writings of Judith Sargent Murray
“Crime is a very hard genre to feminise. If you have a female protagonist she is going to be looking after her mum when she gets older; she is going to be worried about her brother and sister; she will be making a living while bringing up kids.” IfsHardKidsCrimeBrotherFemaleWorriedGenreMumBrothers And SistersProtagonistsMaking A LivingFemale Protagonists Author:Denise Mina
“I have a friend who says the best boyfriends are ones with intimidating, good-looking older brothers. The boyfriends try harder because they're so insecure. Maybe I'm the female equivalent.” TryingBrotherFemaleHarderInsecureLooking GoodIntimidatingOlder Brother Author:Beth Orton
“Female animals defending their young are notoriously ferocious and lack the playful delight in combat which characterizes the mock combats of males of the same species. There seems very little ground for claiming that the mother of young children is more peaceful, more responsible, and more thoughtful for the welfare of the human race than is her husband or brother.” HumansChildrenLittlesSeemsYoungMotherAnimalRaceBrotherHusbandFemaleResponsibleSpeciesMalesDelightPeacefulWelfareHuman RaceThoughtfulCombatMockYoung Children Author:Margaret Mead
“It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.” WayLooksTwoSchoolBrotherFemaleThirdsMalesPrimariesHarry PotterPottersRatiosTwo BrothersPrimary School Author:Emma Watson
“As a female in a home with a whole bunch of brothers and being very close to my father, without a mother and later having a hostile relationship with my stepmother, there were all kinds of Freudian issues rising from possessing a female body that I had to negotiate with no guidance, and I did this negotiation almost instinctually.” KindWholeHomeBodyMotherFatherIssuesBrotherFemaleBunchAll KindsGuidanceRisingNegotiationHostilePossessingFemale BodyStepmothers Author:Shirley Geok-lin Lim
“I was a tomboy running around in the garden. I used to play on a local cricket team. I grew up with all boy cousins, for the most part, and my brother. My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do."” KindRunningMotherBoysTeamBrotherLike YouFemaleGardenWho You AreMy BrotherCousinEmancipation Author:Felicity Jones