Devon Windsor Quotes

Both my parents were amateur badminton players. My father is a scientist and wanted me to be a doctor. But my mom was very aggressive and loved badminton. She pushed me right from the age of nine to take up the sport.

I've had to live with women all my life. I grew up with four older sisters, and I was the baby and the only boy.

Whenever anything went wrong at home, because I was the only boy, I would get blamed for it straight away. Girls stick together.

I think I was born because my parents had two boys and wanted to give it one more go and try for a girl... they got me instead.

When I was born, my mother was very disappointed. She wanted a son. I knew that from a very early age. So I was a tomboy.

My mother always wanted a boy. My father never did.

I'm the youngest of eight kids in my family. All tall, we all played basketball, so at my earliest memory, I was bouncing a ball in the backyard.

I have two older sisters who were phenomenal sportsmen.

My sister plays for PSG. My brother played, too, but not professionally. So I had no choice!

I come from a family of four brothers, so I like sports.

My mother says I was two and a half when I first mentioned I wanted to be an actor. My father said, 'The word is pronounced 'Doctor!'

I grew up with an older brother who was always stronger and faster and better than me at everything, but I was close enough in age to try and compete, so we had a competitive childhood.

I have three sisters and I've always wanted a brother, so I was really interested in that notion.

I was the youngest and only girl in a family of two older brothers.

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.

Nobody has said to men, 'It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.'

My position in the family turned out to be a lucky one; I bore neither the brunt of my mother's newness to parenthood nor the force of her middle-aged traumas, as my younger sister, Ruth, did.

I know this is a weird niche, but a lot of my female friends have these strange stories where there their dads have seen the small successes of their daughters and have decided that they are creative as well.

My parents were definitely on the incentive side of parenting. Like, they told me that my father had learned to read when he was three. So, of course, I thought I had to, too.

Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

When I was 18, I applied to go to BYU like my six brothers ahead of me - I have eight boys and one girl in my family.

I love writing villains because I was the big sister of five girls, so I had heavy responsibility growing up. I had to be 'the good girl.'

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

It was natural for me to go to local tournaments with my mother and watch my brothers compete and sometimes be left with my mom at home while my dad would take my brothers away to different tournaments and competitions. So I started doing everything they did.

I think our whole family just never limited ourselves to what anybody expected of us based on our gender. I never grew up that way.