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“My parents were inspired by Bob Dylan and Dylan Thomas when naming me. They specifically saved this masculine name for their only girl.”

Girl Names Parent Inspired Saved Bob Masculine Dylan

Author:Dylan Lauren

“For a lot of kids, the Boys and Girls Club is really a sanctuary, an oasis of sanity and safety for them because their home life is so tragic. Some of these kids have only one parent, and that one is addicted to drugs.”

Home Kids Life Is Girl Parent Boys Drug Safety Clubs Tragic Sanity Sanctuary Boy And Girl Oasis Home Life

Author:Judge Reinhold

“Any child may go through periods during which they become less outspoken with their parents or teachers. But girls, like boys, live in many different worlds - they have their friends and their classroom and their parents - and within these different domains, they may have different levels of expressiveness.”

World May Children Different Girl Parent Levels Boys Teacher Periods Classroom Domain Different Worlds Different Levels Outspoken Like A Boy

Author:Christina Hoff Sommers

“I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.”

Thinking Giving Trying Two Wanted Girl Parent Born Boys

Author:Alex Borstein

“All that 'poor hometown girl who marries into Hollywood royalty'. It's actually quite insulting to my parents.”

Girl Parent Poor Hollywood Royalty Insulting Hometown

Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones

“I have drawn my whole life. My parents were in the tapestry restoration business, and as a young girl, I would draw in the missing parts of the tapestry that needed to be re-woven. My ability to draw made me indispensable to my parents.”

Made Whole Young Girl Parent Ability Missing Needed Draws Drawing Whole Life Indispensable Restoration Bourgeois Woven Tapestry

Author:Louise Bourgeois

“I learned lots of dirty jokes very young. There was this girl who told me them. The gang I led went in for shoplifting and pulling girls' knickers down. Other boys' parents hated me.”

Young Girl Parent Boys Jokes Dirty Hated Pulling Gang This Girl Knickers Dirty Jokes Shoplifting

Author:John Lennon

“Darkroom: A Memoir in Black and White is remarkable for its truth-telling about two important issues concerning Alabama's past and present: the civil rights movement and immigration. These stories, rendered through the words and eyes of a young Latina girl who came from Argentina to Marion, Alabama, are made vivid and immediate through Weaver's highly accessible drawings and dialogue. This is a book-about maturation, family, education, and social change-every schoolchild, parent, and citizen should experience.”

“I believe the first story I ever wrote was about a young girl who was terribly mistreated by her very cruel parents, and one day the girl fled to the woods to live amongst a pack of wolves. Hey, I was eleven, loved wolves, and had been grounded for what I felt was a minor infraction. Can you blame me?”

Writing Firsts Believe Stories Young Girl I Believe Felt Parent One Day Blame Woods Hey Minors Packs Grounded Eleven Blame Me Mistreated Packs Of Wolves

Author:Victoria Laurie

“When I was kid, yeah, my family, my parents wanted me to marry a Jewish girl because that was what they taught their children, and thought it would be an easier life for me to raise a Jewish kid. And I have a Jewish wife, I have a Jewish kid. They seem pretty happy about it.”

Children Seems Would Be Kids Wanted Girl Parent Wife Taught Easier My Family Raises Yeah Easier Life

Author:Adam Sandler

“I grew up in London. My parents and I lived in West Norwood, then we moved to Norbury, and I went to the Brit School. I'm a South London girl at heart.”

Heart School Girl Parent Grew Grew Up Moved West South London Brits

Author:Ashley Madekwe

“My parents were dismayed by my love of horror movies as a young girl, then even more dismayed when I kept rooting for Dracula to win instead of Van Helsing.”

Young Girl Winning Parent Horror Vans Dismayed Van Helsing

Author:Jeaniene Frost

“Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.”

Wells Home Girl Left Parent Rooms Clear Nice Judgment Theft Disapproval Nice Family

Book:Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

Source: Minor Characters: A Beat Memoir

“You have to feel fortunate to be one of the people whom parents don't mind their children looking up to. The older I get, the more I think about the amount of influence I have on these young girls, and it's scary sometimes. But I also understand how lucky I am to have that.”

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Author:Beyonce Knowles

“I was never the girl that grew up saying I want to get married. I actually told my parents to not expect me to get married.”

Want Girl Parent Grew Married Grew Up

Author:Camila Alves

“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.”

Thinking Knows Littles Different School Girl Reading House Causes Parent Boys Son Thirds Accounts Lists Grades My Son Boy And Girl Prairie Third Grade Like A Boy Little House On The Prairie

Author:Jon Scieszka

“The [character] that I was able to crawl into the most was Lilo from Lilo & Stitch. This was sort of a cartoony-looking girl, but her problems were completely real. Her funky world that she createdI mean, you know kids like that. It was very honest and genuine and I wanted to do an honest job, so I thought about the character a lot before I animated it. I really got into the character, where [I] almost felt that pain that she had. The loss of the parents - you need to feel all that. That was a big learning experience for me.”

Knows World Needs Feels Mean Real Character Problem Bigs Kids Able Wanted Pain Jobs Girl Felt Parent Loss Honest Genuine Animated Learning Experience Stitches Funky

Author:Andreas Deja

“I had really great parents who always gave me lots of opportunity for choice, but I didnt always realize how rare that was for a girl for them to say, You can be a mom or have a career or do both or do something we havent thought of yet.”

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Author:Ally Condie

“Protestant parents still keep a Bible handy in the house, so that the children can study it, and one of the first things the little boys and girls learn is to be righteous and holy and not piss against the wall. They study those passages more than they study any others, except those which incite to masturbation. Those they hunt out and study in private.”

Source: The Bible According to Mark Twain: Writings on Heaven, Eden, and the Flood

“The protection of a ten-year-old girl from her father's advances is a necessary condition of social order, but the protection of the father from temptation is a necessary condition of his continued social adjustment. The protections that are built up in the child against desire for the parent become the essential counterpart to the attitudes in the parent that protect the child.”

Source: Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world

“Most parents of adolescent girls have the goal of keeping their daughters safe while they grow up and explore the world. The parents' job is to protect, the daughter's job is to explore.”

World Jobs Girl Grows Parent Goal Growing Up Protect Safe Daughter Adolescence

Author:Mary Pipher

“In England, I was quite struck to see how forward the girls are made--a child of 10 years old, will chat and keep you company, while her parents are busy or out etc.--with the ease of a woman of 26. But then, how does this education go on?--Not at all: it absolutely stops short.”

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Author:Fanny Burney

“Four- and five-year-olds' play is permeated with the rankest sexism. No matter what their parents do and say, they play their momand pop roles in ultraconventional style. We've seen little girls whose mothers are doctors absolutely refuse to take the doctors' parts in their play, insisting that "only boys can be doctors," against all reason. Girls do more washing and drying of clothes, dishes, and babies than they've ever seen their own mothers do, and they turn their play husbands into TV-watching drones who do nothing but talk about money.”

“Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.”

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Book:Cat's Eye

Source: Cat's Eye

“This is the hope of many adolescent girls--to capture a parent's heart with love for them as they are, as people. They reject thenotion of being loved just because they are the child of the parent. They want the parent to fall in love with them all over again, because being new, they deserve a new love.”

People Want Heart Children Fall Girl Parent Deserve Falling In Love Rejects Capture Being Loved

Author:Terri E Apter

“I love women. I actually prefer girls, as a parent, because they disappoint at a different age. They go through that, "Dad's an idiot," which lasted a little longer than I'd like.”

Littles Different Age Girl Parent Dad Idiot Disappoint Different Ages

Author:Tim Allen

“I was never the kind of girl who said, "One day, I am going to be a beautiful bride, and I am going to have a family." I wanted to work and support myself and make my parents proud. All I did was work. I did three or four films a year, and felt like I was on a treadmill. Finally I said, "Nothing is exciting to me anymore." So I took six months off, which turned into a year, and said, "God, I don't miss it." That's when all kinds of interesting things crossed my path.”

“The one thing my mother instilled in me, well both my parents but specifically my mother - I come from a Muslim country where boys were more wanted than girls so she always made me feel that there is nothing that I couldn't do as well as the boys if not better.”

Ifs Feels Wells Made Country Wanted Mother Girl Parent Boys One Thing

Author:Iman Abdulmajid

“The Drama Years is filled with heart-stirring stories, just-been-there advice from recent teens and practical, actionable tips for parents. It's full of real girls talking about everything from stress and body image to love and materialism. Reading this book, I cringed in recognition of my own drama years, just wishing this book had been around back then and so grateful I'll have it as a guide for my own daughter.”

“The community in Utah was very religious. I was a typical teenage girl trying to find my sexuality. Unfortunately, girls do use their sexuality to find attention. I also understand why parents want to protect their kids.”

Want Trying Use Kids Girl Parent Community Religious Attention Protect Sexuality Typical Teenage Teenage Girl Utah

Author:Julianne Hough

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