Quotes for All
I don’t think my dad really knew what to do with me, as a daughter. He treated me like a boy; my brother and I were treated the same. He didn’t do kid stuff. There were no kid’s menus; you weren’t allowed to order off the kid’s menu at dinner – we had to try … Read more
In spite of his flaws, Oscar had a big heart and was always ready to help whoever was in need. He was affable, kind, extremely generous and charitable, but at the same time, not mature at all. He constantly lied and deceived me, and later returned feeling sorry, like a boy caught in mischief, asking … Read more
I’d hear some beautiful Sade or Kings Of Convenience ballad remixed in a club and I liked that these simple little songs seemed to be masquerading. They had put on superhero costumes, got all beefy, and here they were on the dancefloor. I was interested in that. I can’t make electronic beats, so I leave … Read more
I think for my parents it was like A Boy Named Sue, the Johnny Cash song. A guy named Sue tries to track down his father to take it out on his father for naming him Sue. And his father says, Look, I knew I wasn’t going to be around. So I gave you the … Read more
One of the tragedies of our day is that too many boys are growing up without guidance of a father, or another man, to show them what it looks like to do away with that boyhood stuff. As a result, they often move into adolescence and then adulthood looking like men but still speaking, reasoning, … Read more
For a long time, I used to think that I had a man’s brain that I thought more like a man than a woman. But now I’ve come to realise that whatever it is I do think like, it’s not like men; because men don’t really think like men, they think like boys. David Baddiel
You look like a boy who has eaten the fruit of the tree of knowledge and doesn’t like the taste. Cinda Williams Chima
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. Christina Hoff Sommers
I always say there’s no more little girls, just boys with breasts. Girls act like boys nowadays. Teenage girls, they go after boys. They’re predatory just like boys. My goal is to keep my girls, girls. Chris Rock
She’d been impressed by his looks at first–those sharply planed cheekbones and those black, fathomless eyes–but his affable, sympathetic personality grated on her now. She didn’t like boys who looked as if they never got mad about anything. In Isabelle’s world, rage equaled passion equaled a good time. Cassandra Clare