Sandra Faber Quotes

I've always been like that. I was a tomboy when I was a kid, so I was always playing baseball and basketball and football and stuff as a kid with the boys.

I grew up as a tomboy, so I'm used to being around guys.

I think when I was quite younger, I was always quite a tomboy.

I'm among the first girls ever to play Little League baseball, and to my knowledge, the very first in western Illinois. It was 1976, and I was a nine-year-old tomboy whose older brothers had played.

School is very conformist, and one of the very first conforming that goes on in preschool and kindergarten is gender.

As a little kid, I was convinced that I was a guy.

I was a tomboy as a kid - I was skinny and had cropped hair and was often mistaken for a boy - and up until I was about six, I had my own very fluid ideas of gender in that I believed that, somehow, an individual could choose whether or not s/he wanted to be a boy or a girl.

I was a tomboy growing up, and an athlete.

Hedi was and is still misspelled 'Heidi,' and my perception of genders ended up slightly out of focus from an early age.

Growing up, I was sort of a tomboy. I was the one skating with the boys.

I was raised to be a girl Michelangelo.

I'm a pretty feminized geek, you know? I have that point of view, I grew up around a lot of girls, so I'm pretty sensitive to that. But I don't dare say 'I know how women think.'

I was a tomboy right from the time I was a kid and loved to be like that. I'd hate all the girlie things. Well my best friends as a kid have been boys. I get along best with the opposite sex. I guess that's the case with most people though!

I'd say I was a tomboy... I took wood shop in high school and I was very into volleyball and football, and was very unaware of anything girly for a long time.

I grew up with brothers. Girls terrified me.

We have been very conditioned by the cultures that we come from and are usually very identified with the particular gender that we happen to be a member of.

I've been surprised at the number of people who were really angry that I tried to convey gender neutrality by using a gendered pronoun.

I've always wanted to be a man for a day.

I'm a tomboy now. I always wanted to fit in with my brother's group, so I climbed trees and played with lead soldiers. But I'm a woman's woman. I never understood women who don't have woman friends.

Parenting girls makes you quite gender-conscious - it's almost impossible to fight the power of pink. It's not such a terrible thing to want to be a princess when you're five, but it would be nice if there were some other options.

I was such a tomboy when I was young. I hated girls' clothes.

I was really raised in a gender-neutral household. I always knew I was a girl, but it never occurred to me that there was a limitation.

Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

If I was a boy, nobody would care that I worked out six, seven hours a day when I was 9 years old, no? Why were people always saying 'poor little girl?' I liked to work out and always did more than I was asked to.

I'm a tomboy naturally; I grew up hanging up with boys.