“Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.” RunningGirlPowerfulStudentsActivityGradesValedictorians Author:Christina Hoff Sommers
“I wasn't a jock in school, and by the 10th grade, when I was in boarding school I was carrying water buckets for the girls' hockey team. I was the kid with long hair and glasses and acne trying to learn how to play guitar and piano in the music center. I was not an athlete past the age of 13 or 14 when they start throwing the ball really fast.” TryingLongPlayKidsAgeSchoolPastGirlWaterTeamHairBallsGuitarGlassesAthletePianoGradesHockeyThrowingBucketsJocksLong HairAcneHockey Team Author:Michael Weatherly
“It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.” IfsThinkingLooksLittlesGirlCuteHeightGradesVery CoolEighth GradeShort Girl Author:Alison McGhee
“I got in drama class in high school and I only got in there because there were girls and I thought maybe I could make a grade above a C in something.” SchoolGirlClassDramaHigh SchoolGradesDrama Class Author:Billy Bob Thornton
“I shook myself; I was dreaming. As I went to bed the words of the eighth-grade class's teacher, when the class got to Evangeline , kept echoing in my ears: "We're coming to a long poem now, boys and girls. Now don't be babies and start counting the pages." I lay there like a baby, counting the pages over and over, counting the pages.” LongDreamGirlClassBoysTeacherBabyBedPagesEarsLaysGradesCountingBoy And GirlEighth Grade Book:A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables Source: A sad heart at the supermarket: essays & fables
“our culture is definitely the eighth grade. It's run by eighth-grade boys, and the way these boys show a girl they like her is by humiliating her and making her cry.” WayShowsRunningCultureGirlBoysCryGradesLike HerHumiliatingEighth Grade Book:What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned Source: What the Dogs Have Taught Me: And Other Amazing Things I've Learned
“I was really lucky. I had a really great opportunity. I went to an all girls, very small private school from seventh grade all the way to graduating. It was so wonderful because the focus was school at school...and during the week I could be that nerdy bookworm of a girl, and do six hours of homework at night.” WaySchoolNightGirlOpportunityHoursFocusWonderfulWeekLuckySixGradesGraduatesReally GreatHomeworkGreat OpportunityNerdyPrivate SchoolSeventh GradeBookworms Author:Sophia Bush
“In 2nd grade, a girl who was a friend of mine gave me a homemade valentine. Like, a real, handwritten one!” RealGirlMinesGradesValentineHomemade Author:Luke Benward
“During the Gulf War, I remember two little third grade girls saying to me - after I read them some poems by writers in Iraq - 'You know, we never thought about there being children in Iraq before.' And I thought, 'Well those poems did their job, because now they'll think about everything a little bit differently.'” ThinkingKnowsWellsChildrenLittlesTwoWarJobsRememberGirlBitsLittle BitThirdsIraqGradesGulf WarThird Grade Author:Naomi Shihab Nye
“I think every parent knows that, like, boys and girls are different. And we just dont take that into account in schools on those things like required reading lists. Cause that was my experience, say, with my son, who had to read Little House on the Prairie when he was in third grade.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDifferentSchoolGirlReadingHouseCausesParentBoysSonThirdsAccountsListsGradesMy SonBoy And GirlPrairieThird GradeLike A BoyLittle House On The Prairie Author:Jon Scieszka
“I was the girl in the black leather jacket with the black fingernails, picked up after school by guys with loud cars and motorcycles. I carried straight-A grades, but I had a little trouble with rules. I tended to have a bit of an authority problem.” LittlesProblemSchoolGuyGirlBitsBlackTroubleCarAuthorityLoudGradesJacketsLeatherMotorcycleFingernailsAfter SchoolLeather Jackets Author:Melissa Marr
“That's what I wanted! I wanted to be an athlete, I wanted the girls to like me, and I wanted to be able to get good grades in school, and this man said I could do all that.” MenSaidAbleWantedSchoolGirlAthleteLike MeGradesGrades In SchoolGood Grades Author:Jack LaLanne
“You should never be mean to other girls. I don't care what grade you're in. Be nice to people until you're my age... and you have your own TV show.” PeopleShouldMeanShowsHumorCareAgeFunnyGirlNiceTvsDon't CareI Don't CareGradesBeing NiceTv ShowsOther GirlBe Nice To People Author:Chelsea Handler
“I used to be in love with Sandra Bullock when I was growing up. Sandy B. was my girl. I remember seeing Speed when I was in seventh grade and just thinking, 'That's her.'” ThinkingRememberUsedGirlGrowing UpGrowingSeeingSpeedUsed To BeGradesMy GirlSandySeventh Grade Author:Chris Evans
“Once I grew from 6'1' to about 6'6', by that time I was going into 12th grade, and that's when I started wanting to play basketball, because, pretty much basketball players always got the girl.” PlayGirlPlayerGrewBasketballGradesBasketball Player Author:Eric Williams