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• Is it possible that my sons-in-law will do toilets? If we raise boys to know that diapers need to be changed and refrigerators need to be cleaned, there's hope for the next generation.

  Anne Roiphe

  Son, Law, Needs

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• I've known Al Gore since he was born. He has been the best little boy, he was a boring child, and he has never done anything wrong.

  Cokie Roberts

  Children, Als, Done

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• For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Girl, Daughter, Mother

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• What we have here is a rousing boy's adventure story, adapted from stories that Edgar Rice Burroughs cranked out for early pulp magazines. They lacked the visceral appeal of his Tarzan stories, which inspired an estimated 89 movies; amazingly, this is the first John Carter movie, but it is intended to foster a franchise and will probably succeed.

  Roger Ebert

  Adventure, Firsts, Succeed

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• A boy's mind is not so easily sullied as a girl's.... Undesirable knowledge is not an equal shock to the moral nature.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Knowledge, Mind

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell (1866). “Principles of Education, Drawn from Nature and Revelation, and Applied to Female Education in the Upper Classes”, p.397

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• The aim of education is to fit children for the position in life which they are hereafter to occupy. Boys are to be sent out intothe world to buffet with its temptations, to mingle with bad and good, to govern and direct.... girls are to dwell in quiet homes, amongst a few friends; to exercise a noiseless influence, to be submissive and retiring. There is no connection between the bustling mill-wheel life of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing.... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly.

  Elizabeth Missing Sewell

  Girl, Children, School

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• The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated as well as boys.

  Ellen Swallow Richards

  Girl, Faculty, Educated

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• The man, or the boy, in his development is psychologically deterred from incorporating serving characteristics by an easily observable fact: there are already people around who are clearly meant to serve and they are girls and women. To perform the activities these people are doing is to risk being, and being thought of, and thinking of oneself, as a woman. This has been made a terrifying prospect and has been made to constitute a major threat to masculine identity.

  Jean Baker Miller

  Girl, Women, Thinking

  Jean Baker Miller (2012). “Toward a New Psychology of Women”, p.71, Beacon Press

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• As children, women are encouraged to be "little ladies." Little ladies don't scream as vociferously as little boys, and they are chastised more severely for throwing tantrums or showing temper: "high spirits" are expected and therefore tolerated in little boys; docility and resignation are the corresponding traits expected of little girls. Now, we tend to excuse a show of temper by a man where we would not excuse an identical tirade from a woman: women are allowed to fuss and complain, but only a man can bellow in rage.

  Robin Lakoff

  Girl, Children, Women

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• ...I swore I would battle not only for myself but for freedom and opportunity for everything living that wore chains, especially sex chains. It that meant poverty for myself and my boy then poverty we should have to suffer. If it meant social ostracism, if it meant relinquishing the literary success that lay within my grasp, then let the success go.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  Sex, Opportunity, Should Have

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• There was never any question with me as to which I would choose, my boy or my work. I had to have both.

  Rheta Childe Dorr

  My Boys

  Rheta Childe Dorr (1980). “A woman of fifty”, Ayer Co Pub

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• I cop a fair bit of flack for going from 'such a babe to such a boy'. I wanted to share (that) story.

  Ruby Rose

  Stories, Cop, Share

  "Ruby Rose says she doesn’t identify as female or male, after releasing a gender-bending short film" by Shannon Molloy, www.news.com.au. January 14, 2015.

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• There is absolutely no way the best team in the NCAA could even dream of beating the worst team in the NBA? You're talking about men vs. boys.

  Bill Walton

  Dream, Team, Men

  Bill Walton (1995). “Nothing But Net: Just Give Me the Ball and Get Out of the Way”, Hyperion

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• Black Poets should live--not leap
  From steel bridges, like the white boys do.

  Etheridge Knight

  Bridges, White, Poetry

  Etheridge Knight (1973). “Belly song and other poems”, Broadside Pr

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• Boy, you'll have a fair trial. Race, creed or color, justice will be done in my courtroom.

  Laurence Stallings

  Equality, Race, Color

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• Until the end of the Middle Ages, and in many cases afterwards too, in order to obtain initiation in a trade of any sort whatever--whether that of courtier, soldier, administrator, merchant or workman--a boy did not amass the knowledge necessary to ply that trade before entering it, but threw himself into it; he then acquired the necessary knowledge.

  Philippe Aries

  Order, Soldier, Age

  Philippe Ariès (1962). “Centuries of childhood: a social history of family life”, Vintage

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• My genius from a boy
  Has fluttered like a bird within my heart;
  But could not thus confined her power employ,
  Impatient to depart.

  George Moses Horton

  Heart, Bird, Genius

  George Moses Horton (1997). “The Black Bard of North Carolina: George Moses Horton and His Poetry”, p.121, Univ of North Carolina Press

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• When I went into the publishing industry, many women talked about the difficulty they had in persuading their families to let them go to college. They educated the boys, and the girls had to struggle.

  Toni Morrison

  Girl, Struggle, College

  Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 1, 2012.

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• When the Negro finds the courage to be free, he faces dogs and guns and clubs and fire hoses totally unafraid, and the white men with those dogs, guns, clubs and fire hoses see that the Negro they have traditionally called "boy" has become a man.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Dog, Gun, Men

  Source: playboysfw.kinja.com

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• Benjamin Franklin refused to have one of his children vaccinated against smallpox. The four-year-old boy died, and Franklin wrote later of how mistaken he was to expose him to the needless risk.

  Michael Specter

  Children, Years, Risk

  Source: www.newyorker.com

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• As a teenager, I was very much a people pleaser and that excludes being adventuresome at all. I was a Boy Scout though and so that's as adventuresome as I got.

  Rob Corddry

  Teenager, People, Boy Scout

  "Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I've been an Apple guy since the mid 80's and that's when I was like, "Boy, you guys really got me here. I know exactly what you're doing, right down to your price points."

  Rob Corddry

  Apples, Guy, Knows

  "Rob Corddry Talks ESCAPE FROM PLANET EARTH, Voicing His First Animated Feature, Earning an Eagle Scout Badge, WARM BODIES and PAIN & GAIN". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. February 13, 2013.

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• I was raised a Catholic as a boy and went to a Catholic boys' high school, a private school, and kind of drifted away, candidly, in my latter teen years. I consider myself deeply spiritual but not in an institutional, religious kind of a way. In Catholicism, we're surrounded by these images of martyrdom and doing penance and doing some suffering to achieve what you're trying to achieve. And I certainly embedded that in my psyche and I have lived that very effectively.

  James Balog

  Spiritual, Religious, School

  Source: collider.com

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• It's so funny because you think you're attracted to this bad boy. They do whatever they want, but you don't really want that. You don't want someone who's out on a tour bus, sleeping around with different people and getting wasted.

  Malin Akerman

  Sleep, Thinking, People

  "Malin Akerman Talks Rock of Ages, the Stalled Linda Lovelace Movie, and Playing Debbie Harry in CBGB". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. June 16, 2012.

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• 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.

  Stella Chess

  Girl, Mother, Baby

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