“Girls can wear jeans and cut their hair short and wear shirts and boots because it's okay to be a boy; for girls it's like promotion. But for a boy to look like a girl is degrading, according to you, because secretly you believe that being a girl is degrading.”

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British author 1948

Arthur Golden book Memoirs of a Geisha

Source: Memoirs of a Geisha

“I had long blonde hair, but even as a little girl with long blonde hair, I looked like one of the Hanson boys.”

Rachel Maddow (1973) American journalist

The View, ABC (March 5, 2009)

“Okay, this might sound vague, but do you know this one girl with hair like this?”

Bryan Lee O'Malley (1979) Artist

Source: Scott Pilgrim, Volume 1: Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life

“Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”

Anne Frank (1929–1945) victim of the Holocaust and author of a diary

“Boys will be boys—And even that … wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.”

Anthony Hope (1863–1933) English novelist and playwright

"The House Opposite," http://books.google.com/books?id=UZ8uAAAAYAAJ&q=%22Boys+will+be+boys+And+even+that%22+%22wouldn't+matter+if+we+could+only+prevent+girls+from+being+girls%22&pg=PA137#v=onepage Westminster Gazette (1893)