Sissy Spacek Quotes

I grew up with two brothers with whom I played a rough game of football. If I could take that, I could take anything.

I like a women who's got some balls, some strength. As long as I can beat her at arm wrestling, that's fine.

I started in junior high doing the splits and flips and that kind of stuff. It was kind of the acceptable thing to do. But I had two older brothers, so I was a tomboy. I was the cute tomboy who could put on the skirt but then go tackle you or something. I was a little rough around the edges for a pretty woman!

Growing up, we tend to challenge each other. We've got to be the toughest, the strongest, the bravest men that we can be. And for many of us, myself included, our identities are wrapped up in whether or not at the end of the day we feel like we're man enough.

Tough guys have to be tough. But tough guys don't have to be guys.

I've always been very competitive - that runs in our family. I'd always try to beat my brother. I'd race the boys and wanted to beat them. They toughened me up. They didn't treat me like a girl.

I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.

I am such a tomboy. I grew up fighting with boys, mainly - beating up boys, actually.

I wasn't like other boys. At any rate, I wasn't like my three elder brothers: they excelled at football and they were like other boys, going up to bed each night hugging annuals filled with stories about the glories of Pele and Danny McGrain.

I'm the only girl out of three children. I have two younger brothers. I've grown up around boys and men my whole life. I get them. I get men.

I was raised with three bothers, no sisters. I've always been a tomboy.

I was raised by boys. I can hold my own, I can fight, and I love horror movies - simply for the scare factor and the surrealism.

The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.

I was the youngest of four boys, raised in North Yorkshire.

I played football ever since I was a little boy. Coming from a family of six boys, I guess we learned the game of football from a very young age.

I was such a tomboy as a kid, and I'm a dancer.

I'm a football player. I believe I'm just as tough as anybody else. I try not to play like a wide receiver.

It is football. We need to be men, and it's not always possible to win.

I'm definitely somewhat of a tomboy. I grew up a pretty big tomboy, actually, and was really obsessed with basketball.

I worked hard at becoming a professional football player, just like society says you should. It said you had to be fierce. I was fierce. Tough. I was tough.

If a boy is not trained to endure and to bear trouble, he will grow up a girl; and a boy that is a girl has all a girl's weakness without any of her regal qualities. A woman made out of a woman is God's noblest work; a woman made out of a man is His meanest.

Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.

The impulse of the American woman to geld her husband and castrate her sons is very strong.

You cannot forget about your femininity. You don't have to compete with men in that respect.

Political correctness is driving machismo underground and recalling effeminacy from exile.