Fiona Bruce Quotes

I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.

I purely attribute my 'hamming it up' quality to growing up with three older brothers and just being like a tomboy my whole life. Literally, my mother had to be like, 'Honey, there's a certain point where you have to start wearing a shirt.' You know, I would run around with the boys and play tag football and climb trees.

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.

I never shared a room growing up because I was the only girl.

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

As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.

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

My first conscious thought of 'I should be like that and not like this' was probably at about six, and I was playing with... I have a twin brother, and we were playing with our twin cousins, who are a boy and a girl.

I considered myself one of the boys. My brothers didn't spoil me at all, not at all. I was very tomboyish. It wasn't as if I was like a princess or anything like that.

I have six brothers and one sister. I grew up playing ice hockey, a total tomboy, and that's what I thought I was going to do - be an ice-hockey player.

I do feel like I'm a tomboy at heart, so I have an easy time working with guys.

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!

I grew up with all boys in my family, where there was no place for girlie stuff. But it's amazing to walk into my house now. Everything is pink!

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

My childhood was as heavily gendered as any you would find in a working-class household in Lincolnshire.

I always wanted to do what my brothers were doing. I always wanted to play the games they played and play rough and wear pants and go outside.

I was nice and well-mannered because I was taught manners. I was very imaginative and quite adventurous. I was a tomboy, and I was always jealous that my older brother Hugh had bigger toy aeroplanes than me. I was always playing with boys' toys; I don't remember owning any dolls.

I was 100 percent tomboy. I had the biggest Big Wheels.

I was definitely a tomboy. I hated dolls.

I grew up with three older brothers, so I'm very much a tomboy in real life.

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

I always shopped in the girls' section during elementary school.

My father worked in a bank while my mother looked after my four brothers and me, the only girl in our family.

I was a tomboy through and through; I hated dresses and was personally miffed that I couldn't join the Little League team.

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