“The boy grows upward, but the girl grows up.”

“When I grow up I want to be a little boy.”

“The girls were expected to grow up to be somebody's wife. They were also expected to read and write, those being considered soft indoor jobs that were too fiddly for the boys.”

“Let girls grow up to become woman and make a choice, what they want.”

“He had the kind of personality that makes you think a boy will grow up to be a public torturer.”

“I was so poor growing up…if I wasn't a boy…I'd have nothing to play with. ”

“The thing you have to understand about fighter pilots is they never quite grow past the stage of little boys buzzing past girls on their bicycles.”

“I watched them, thinking that little girls who make their mothers live grow up to be such powerful women.”

“All over Harlem, Negro boys and girls are growing into stunted maturity, trying desperately to find a place to stand; and the wonder is not that so many are ruined but that so many survive.”

“We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.”