“The friendship of two young people," says Goethe somewhere, "is delightful when the girl likes to learn and the boy to teach.”

“During all my wandering through two decades and two continents, I've found nothing more pathetic than the universal misery of young boys trying to charm young girls.”

“When one teaches, two learn.”

“There were entertaining, impassioned, or witty lectures on Goethe, say, in which he would be depicted descending from a post chaise wearing a blue frock-coat to seduce some Strassburg or Wetzlar girl; or on Arabic culture; in all of them a number of fashionable phrases were shaken up like dice in a cup and everyone was delighted if he dimly recognized one or two catchwords.”

“If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.”

“Why do boys say someone acts like a girl as if it were an insult?”

“Delightful task! to rear the tender thought,
To teach the young idea how to shoot.”

“Where young boys plan for what they will achieve and attain, young girls plan for whom they will achieve and attain.”

“See, you learn about humans when you have a baby. Like girls. Girls are so much more advanced than boys. I seriously think that girls are born in conversation. Like, they come out of the womb, talking: "Are you my mother? Lovely to put a face to a name."”

“People say I'm not much of a girl either," Tiger Lily said.
She thought of Tik Tok, who was fond of saying that people were all bits of each thing, boy and girl.”