I was playing with pencils while the other girls were playing with dolls.
I was not big on playing house. I preferred make-believe that revolved around adventure, featuring pirates and knights. I was also domineering, impatient, relentlessly verbal, and, as an only child, often baffled by the mores of other kids.
Did you ever hear of a kid playing accountant - even if they wanted to be one?
Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally. Guys don”t really care, they just want to get the clothes off.
Well, men go to musicals. Women are the ones that buy the tickets for plays.
When little ones say they want to go home, they almost never mean it. They mean they are tired of this particular game and would like to start another.
When kids my age were picking up toy cars, I used to buy toy guns.
I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.
I did have a 1977 Barbie, but I was more into stuffed animals than dolls.
I did not play with dolls. I played with a little hammer, paint and wood.
