“It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.” PeopleWaySeemsGirlBoysTreatsPityLike A Boy Author:Katharine Whitehorn
“All those tough guys who want to scare the world into seeing them as men . . . who don't know how to be a man with a woman, only abrute or a boy, who fill up the divorce courts; all those corporate raiders and rain-forest burners and war starters who want more in hopes that will make them feel better; . . . are suffering from Father Hunger. They go through their puberty rituals day after day for a lifetime, waiting for a father to anoint them and say "Attaboy," to treat them as good enough to be considered a man.” KnowsMenWorldWantFeelsWarEnoughGuySufferingFatherWaitingBoysKnow HowSeeingToughRainTreatsCourtLifetimeHungerDivorceForestsCorporateGood EnoughRitualScareFeel BetterFatherhoodBe A ManPubertyStartersTough GuyRaiders Author:Frank Pittman
“I've always felt heroic about my life... As a child, I remember little girls in the playground moaning about how boys could do more than they could. I didn't think that was the case at all. My parents didn't treat me as a girl.” ThinkingChildrenLittlesRememberGirlFeltParentBoysCasesTreatsHeroicPlaygroundsMoaning Author:Vivienne Westwood
“I hope you will love your baby. I hope it will be a boy. That husband of yours, I hope, will always treat you well, because otherwise my specter shall come out of him, like black smoke, like a demented giant, and pull him apart nerve by nerve. ... I am thinking of aurochs and angels, the secret of durable pigments, prophetic sonnets, the refuge of art. And this is the only immortality you and I may share, my Lolita.” ThinkingWellsMayArtBlackSecretBoysShareBabyHusbandAngelTreatsSmokeImmortalityGiantsNervesRefugeSonnetPropheticDementedPigment Author:Vladimir Nabokov
“I pledge to set out to live a thousand lives between printed pages. I pledge to use books as doors to other minds, old and young, girl and boy, man and animal. I pledge to use books to open windows to a thousand different worlds and to the thousand different faces of my own world. I pledge to use books to make my universe spread much wider than the world I live in every day. I pledge to treat my books like friends, visiting them all from time to time and keeping them close.” MenWorldMindBookDifferentUseFacesYoungGirlUniverseMy OwnAnimalBoysDoorsThousandPagesWindowTreatsSpreadPrintedPledgeVisitingDifferent WorldsBoy And GirlMy Own WorldDifferent Faces Author:Cornelia Funke
“Calvin: Trick or treat! Adult: Where's your costume? What are you supposed to be? Calvin: I'm yet another resource-consuming kid in an overpopulated planet, raised to an alarming extent by Madison Avenue and Hollywood, poised with my cynical and alienated peers to take over the world when you're old and weak... Am I scary, or what?” WorldKidsBoysPlanetsAdultsResourcesWeakHollywoodTreatsRaisedScaryTricksSupposed To BeCynicalPeersCostumesAvenuesConsumingMadisonCalvin And Hobbes FriendshipMadison AvenueTrick Or Treat Author:Bill Watterson
“The first rule of etiquette a boy learns when he's about to enter society is that civility is due to all women. No provocation, no matter how unjust and rudely delivered, can validate a man who fails to treat a woman with anything less than utmost courtesy." The boys hung on his every word. He glanced in her direction. "I have met some incredibly unpleasant women, and I have never failed in this duty. But I must admit: your sister may prove my undoing.” MenFirstsMayMatterBoysFailingDutyMetsProveTreatsDuesHungUnjustCourtesyEtiquetteCivilityProvocationUndoing Author:Ilona Andrews
“I'm just a true Irish boy at heart. I'm just myself, I stick by my guns and I treat people the way I think they should be treated, regardless of their status. And I just have a laugh.” PeopleThinkingWayShouldHeartBoysLaughingGunTreatsSticksTreatedHave A Laugh Author:Colin Farrell
“I like someone who has a super gentle spirit and energy. I’m really gentle, and so I like a boy who will treat me that way.” WayFunnySpiritEnergyBoysTreatsGentleLike A BoyGentle Spirit Author:Megan Fox
“The fact of the matter is that everybody treats me pretty much as one of the boys, which I take as a great compliment” MatterFactsBoysTreatsCompliment Author:Julia Louis-Dreyfus
“I like a man who looks like a bad boy but knows how to treat a woman like a queen.” KnowsMenLooksBoysKnow HowTreatsQueensBad Boy Author:Candice Swanepoel
“Our youth want less adult contact if that co ntacttreats them like boys. They want more adult contact that treats them like young men. Tired as they are of the former, they are hungry for the latter” IfsMenWantYoungParentBoysYouthLike YouAdultsTreatsTiredHungryContactFormerYoung ManLatterLike A Boy Author:Michael Gurian
“When you're in a broken family and your role model is a violent male, boys grow up believing that's the way they're supposed to act. And girls think that's an accepted way men will treat them.” ThinkingMenWayBelieveGirlGrowsBoysRolesGrowing UpViolenceBrokenModelsTreatsMalesAcceptedViolentRole ModelsDomestic ViolenceBroken Family Author:Jim Costa
“Men and boys, we show our manhood through the way we treat our women. Our wives, our sisters, our mothers.” MenWayShowsMotherBoysWifeEmpowermentTreatsManhood Author:Desmond Tutu