Pink is female - but why? Are girls any more pink than boys? Are boys any more blue than girls? It's something that has been sold to us, mostly so other things can be sold to us.
David Levithan
Related Although individual temperaments vary, boys are designed to be more assertive, audacious, and excita... JAMES DOBSON Boys have a tendency to jump around a lot more than girls. Boys have that desire to want to dunk way... LISA LESLIE Boys are different from girls, but boys are also different from other boys, just as girls are differ... MARIE LU But some boys like boys more - And some girls make other girls hearts soar! CHRISTINA ENGELA Boys are much more likely to objectify girls bodies, while boys are seen by girls as whole people. JOHN GREEN Girls actually need superheroes much more than boys. GLORIA STEINEM There is an outdated belief that girls are not as good at science and math subjects as boys. But acc... PADMASREE WARRIOR For the first time since I've been coaching, we have more girls than boys. LARRY PADILLA I think it's better than ever, with more balance than ever. There are great boys and great girls. RANDY JACKSON We won't organize any black man to be a Democrat or a Republican because both of them have sold ... MALCOLM X As it has sold into more markets than any other format and has so many episodes, Millionaire definit... DANIEL SCHMITT With boys there was a fundamental assumption that they had a right to be there—not always, but mor... HELEN OYEYEMI I've lived with boys and girls, and I find that boys are generally cleaner than girls. Generally... SAM CLAFLIN Soul murder, the psychiatrists call it, the sexual violation of children. Unimaginably small boys. B... ROBERT GOOLRICK These girls showed more heart tonight than any other team I've ever been around. During these tough ... AMBER FOX I think girls have more active imaginations than boys do when it comes to play, DAVID RILEY We continue to believe that OfficeMax should be sold. We are confident that a sale will create more ... ABNER KURTIN Girls weren't supposed to be better than boys and have muscles, ... So I downplayed my accomplishmen... DON HILL So to D.J. it didn't make any sense that his two dads, both boys, would contemplate marrying each ot... DAN SAVAGE Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, ... JILL SCOTT It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to. GAL GADOT There is baseball and softball. There is boys' basketball and girls' basketball. So if they're going... ARIEL CAVANAUGH Investing in girls can actually move the needle in communities... and can actually benefit boys, bec... SOLEDAD O'BRIEN Do girls need kid-glove treatment? I thought they were tougher than that." Dan's grin was appro... NORA SAKAVIC We've sold or sampled more than 15 million servings. People are telling us that this is a product th... GREG ALLGOOD Every teenage artist out there is mostly talking about boys, and I think there's so much more to... SOLANGE KNOWLES This is a win-win deal for us and the Boys & Girls Club. They were looking for a permanent home and ... DAN MAHONEY The major reason for China's rising sex ratio is the entrenched concept of 'boys are better than gir... ZHANG WEIQING Indeed, girls can be so in need of social approval that they confuse harassment for acceptance--thin... LEORA TANENBAUM The kids really sold that vote, more than any adult, any administrator or any school board member wh... SEAN CASEY I think girls have more active imaginations than boys do when it comes to play. If girls have a butt... DAVID RILEY Special places in other states are proposed to be sold so Oregon can get its pork. ANDY STAHL Girls say boys are jerks without thinking that their fathers , brothers and boy friends are also boy... ABDULLAH KHAN (AK) It's sold more businesses than it has managed to buy. DAVID LANG Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than... MARK TWAIN Methuselah lived to be 969 years old . You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than... THOMAS TUSSER Methuselah lived to be 969 years old. You boys and girls will see more in the next fifty years than ... MARK TWAIN One thing that surprised me is that we expected, based on anecdotal evidence, that girls might be mo... JENNIFER MANLOVE The Faculty [of Vassar] do not consider it a mere experiment any longer that girls can be educated a... ELLEN SWALLOW RICHARDS Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ANNE FRANK Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls. ANTHONY HOPE HAWKINS In 20 years I had sold more records for RCA than any artist except Elvis Presley. CHARLEY PRIDE It creates more opportunities for girls to prove they can wrestle, whether it's with boys or other g... BOB EMPEY Boys and girls are not the same. TUCKER CARLSON In other words, homes that would have sold for $900,000 in 2004 sold for more than a million last ye... MARSHALL PRENTICE Freddie has promised his support and will be doing more than one town. The other England boys are co... IAN BOTHAM A lot of the girls can shoot as hard as the guys. (But) the boys are so much quicker and faster. And... CHARLINE LABONTE Whenever there is a conflict between pink and blue, let the pink win, happiness is more important th... SUKANT RATNAKAR Girls are more attractive to me than dresses. DAVID BAILEY The school has really shown its support. The students came out and supported us and helped us win. I... JAMARR SANDERS There are pretty strong research findings that once girls hit adolescence, their rates of depression... DR. ERIKA RYST boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin? FRANK Little girls grow up to be women, little boys grow up to be little boys. STEPHEN FRY Girls fight different than boys. Boys get in big fights and get over it. Girls don't get over it. I ... HANNAH HILLIBUSH Idiotically, it occurred to me that my pink underwear didn’t match my purple bra, as if boys even ... JOHN GREEN Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has ... JOHN CLAYTON That is just what little boys like to do. But there are definitely some little girls out there too. DOUG TAYLOR Boys always like to see girls kiss. I don't get it; girls don't want to see boys kiss. DOMINIQUE SWAIN We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls, you can have ambit... CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE Pride only helps us to be generous; it never makes us so, any more than vanity makes us witty. GEORGE ELIOT Unborn children can experience pain even more so than adults as the baby has more pain receptors per... SAM BROWNBACK I don't think they are as active as much as the larger gangs. It's a hang out thing more or less. Bu... FRED HUDSON The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys ... ALISON FIELD The take-home message here is that we really need to think about body-image dissatisfaction in boys ... ALISON FIELD We have an idea that we Americans are God's chosen people, that God loves us more than any other... BILLY GRAHAM I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys... MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. Golf has more rules than any other game because golf has more cheaters than any other game BRUCE LANSKY [Ms. Green, 37, has published six other books, which are targeted at female readers and have togethe... JANE GREEN When boys get mad its not so bad When girls get mad world WW3 is about to start! P.C. CAST Our being is subject to all the chances of life. There are so many things we are capable of, that we... KATHERINE ANNE PORTER If the rest of the children are boys and the middle child is a girl, then the experience may be diff... ANNE DUBOIS I believe deeply that children are more powerful than oil, more beautiful than rivers, more precious... DANNY KAYE We never had any expectations for our first album, so I don't know why we should start now. We hope ... JT WOODRUFF What Darwinian theory shows us is that all human races are extremely close to each other. None of th... RICHARD DAWKINS There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ [We are] prepared to do what it takes in any country that has not yet realized the value of educatin... CAROL BELLAMY Global health issues remind us - perhaps more than any other issue - that we are all children of the... KATHLEEN SEBELIUS Why do all the hot girls want the jocks and the good boys? We losers are the ones that need you. HUNTLEY FITZPATRICK We see major headwinds for Kellwood, more than any other apparel company. We believe its problems ar... LIZABETH DUNN Part of the reason that women go to college is to get out of the food service, clerical, pink-collar... GLORIA STEINEM This is a huge win especially for the boys. The girls, we were rooting for them also, but this is a ... ALISON BELL The girls look like they are a band already - the boys don't LOUIS WALSH We have 60-70 boys and 25 girls out. We were just hoping to have 25-30 boys our first year and now t... BOB VIGIL The girls wanted to see if they could get the boys to cry. BOB STAUBLE Since a lot of them, the varsity boys and some of the girls, ran during the summer, we have been abl... JANE HARRISON I'm into the girls fancying me and stuff, mad for it. Get a bit worried if boys started fancying me,... LIAM GALLAGHER In girls, a freshman can be a star. In boys, they need to be a junior or senior to be a champion run... BILL KAHN I'm so scared girls look at my breast implants and think, 'To get boys, you need big boobs.' I tell ... JENNY MCCARTHY I like everything. Boyish girls, girlish boys, the heavy and the skinny. Which is a problem when I'm... ANGELINA JOLIE All but two swimmers made it to regional. I'm real proud of the boys and girls. They all did a great... DEBI MEASE So far, we have closets full of beautiful things. All look like new - for girls and boys. Our member... DEE SMITH I'd been used to working with an ensemble of six boys. When it became three girls, three boys, it ch... DICK AYOTTE We may be there for a while. But if it's for the boys and girls, I'm all for it. EDDIE WHITE We came back on the boys' side with a conference championship and had the overall champion in boys a... DENNY CHALK The boys team has similar depth to the girls team, but the difference is that the girls have a littl... DENNIS DRISCOLL I could see both the boys and girls races being very close. It isn't just Penn and then everybody el... CHAD WETZEL The girls sprint crew is inexperienced, and the boys distance runners are young. DAN ROHRS Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their... MARGARET ATWOOD Boys are idiots. Girls are idiots, too, of course, but boys are a special kind of idiot.<... JOSH LIEB This should tell you everything you need to know about guys. They only go after what they know they ... ADRIANA TRIGIANI
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The things you hope for the most are the things that destroy you in the end. DAVID LEVITHAN I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday. DAVID LEVITHAN You think fairy tales are only for girls? Here's a hint - ask yourself who wrote them. I assure you,... DAVID LEVITHAN There's no such thing as a perfect person, so it makes no sense to write a perfect person. I don... DAVID LEVITHAN I have no idea how he knows when I need him. We can go weeks without speaking, and then, when my blu... DAVID LEVITHAN The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations—all of them rearran... DAVID LEVITHAN I can take everything on her face at face value, and that's valuable in a friend. DAVID LEVITHAN So what else can I tell you?" I asked. "I mean, to get you to reveal Lily to me." She triangled... DAVID LEVITHAN What separates us from the animals, what separates us from the chaos, is our ability to mourn people... 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I never understood why anyone would have sex on the floor.... DAVID LEVITHAN love , n. I'm not even going to try. DAVID LEVITHAN lover , n . Oh, how I hated this word. So pretentious, like it was always bei... DAVID LEVITHAN Is that all we need? Can the way we say each other's names encompass all our history, all our love, ... DAVID LEVITHAN If we actually thought about every decision we made, we'd be paralyzed ... You have to decide which ... DAVID LEVITHAN There was something about our silence that made me comfortable. He wasn't talking to me, but I didn'... DAVID LEVITHAN You're giving up. You're slipping into being miserable and if you are being miserable, then it's all... DAVID LEVITHAN There is something so intimate about saying the truth out loud. There is something so intimate about... DAVID LEVITHAN Please may this not be a game. Please may this not be a game. Because if it’s a game, I know I’m... DAVID LEVITHAN Life tells you to take the elevator, but love tells you to take the stairs. DAVID LEVITHAN How can you spend hours every day trying in small ways to figure out who you are, then have a near-s... DAVID LEVITHAN Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold ... DAVID LEVITHAN It's bullshit to think of friendship and romance as being different. They're not. They're just varia... DAVID LEVITHAN I've never understood why looking hot had to be equated with sex and conquest. Whatever happened to ... DAVID LEVITHAN Just because a person is beautiful doesn't mean there's no soul beneath. Doesn't mean that person ha... DAVID LEVITHAN Love is so painful, how could you ever wish it on anybody? And love is so essential, how could you e... DAVID LEVITHAN Things are not magical because they've been conjured for us by some outside force. They are magical ... DAVID LEVITHAN My lines all curve. I tend to connect the wrong dots. DAVID LEVITHAN The words were clumsy in my mouth, like typing with hammers. DAVID LEVITHAN So what do you have to confess now?" I don't know why I'm saying any of this, except that is th... DAVID LEVITHAN My pride shut me up, my hurt shut me down, and together they ganged up on my hope and let her get aw... DAVID LEVITHAN