Sasha Pivovarova Quotes

With two older brothers, I was a tomboy in one sense, but on the other hand I really loved dolls. My brothers weren't very happy when I nicked their Action Men to play with my dolls and they were appalled when I made them kiss my Barbies.

My mom was a big feminist, and when I was growing up, I wasn't allowed to have typical girl toys: she did not let me have dolls. Barbies were banned in our household. She read feminist books to me; my mom was a major feminist.

I was never one for dolls.

I was very much a tomboy. I just couldn't do the pink ballet tutus.

I was a big tomboy.

I was definitely a tomboy. I hated dolls.

I grew up as a tomboy. I hated posing and things like that.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

There's still a narrower band of acceptable behavior for women than men.

All this is expected from girls only - wear makeup and look beautiful. My guy friends don't always have to do their hair and makeup.

I was one of those girls in class who always had her hair in plaits, was always with the boys, always playing football in the street.

I grew up in a small Austrian village, a quite conservative one, and I was the weird little boy always dressing as a girl.

On the playground, I was the type of kid who wanted to sing with the girls, not play soccer with the boys.

Women have to compensate more in the personality department in order to get the things that men get. And they don't have as much leeway for being divas or jerks.

I really should learn to be more of a girl.

Often, our laws and policies reflect patriarchal biases that can trap men in stereotypes - for example, the idea of guarding the modesty of a woman serves neither men nor women nor any other gender - instead, it comes from the same strong patriarchal framework that we need to confront and reject.

I wasn't taken seriously being the only girl playing in band growing up.

I was always a tomboy as a kid. I always had boyfriends. I was just a regular girl growing up in the late '50s and early '60s, but I was never really attracted to what the girls were attracted to: makeup, my appearance, homemaking.

Do you really think a man must be strong, masculine, dominating, and the woman frail, obedient and sensitive? This is a conventional idea. Reality is quite different.

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

Complete masculinity and stupidity are often indistinguishable.

With boys I climbed trees, ran races, and wrestled. I had no complexes of envy or inferiority toward boys. At the same time, however, I liked dolls.

Something is unfolding, being revealed to me. I see that there's a whole world of of girls and their doings that has been unknown to me, and that I can be part of without making any effort at all. I don't have to keep up with anyone, run as fast, aim as well, make loud explosive noises, decode messages, die on cue. I don't have to think about whether I do these things well, as well as a boy. All I have to do is sit on the floor and cut frying pans our of the Eaton's Catalogue with embroidery scissors, and say I've done it badly.

Women all live a double standard.

It's acceptable for men to act the fool. When women try, they're considered aggressive and opinionated.