Jennifer Fox quotes

“The dilemma of our lives is that boys can do everything and girls can do very little.”
-- Jennifer Fox

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#Girl Quotes #Boys Quotes #Littles Quotes

“I certainly feel that you can be woman and not have children, but I don't think society feels that.”
-- Jennifer Fox

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#Children Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Feels Quotes

“A lot of my effort is to get people to talk about gender in a new way and to see that sexism and gender issues are so ingrained in us.”
-- Jennifer Fox

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#Issues Quotes #People Quotes #Effort Quotes

“As a little girl, I didn't like stories about little girls. I liked stories about dragons and beasts and princes and princesses and fear and terror and the Four Musketeers and almost anything other than nice little girls making moral decisions about whether to tell the teacher about what the other little girl did or did not do.”

“I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five,”

“What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.”

“Let me explain it to you then. I just had a beautiful girl trust me enough to touch her and see her in a way no one else ever has. I got to hold her and watch her and feel her as she came apart in my arms. It was like nothing else I'd ever experienced. She was breathtaking and she was responding to me. She wanted me. I was the one making her spiral out of control.”

“I love you girl...to the moon and back.”

“But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.”

“Mrs. Landingham, does the President have free time this morning? The President has nothing but free time, Toby. Right now he's in the residence eating Cheerios and enjoying Regis and Kathie Lee. Should I get him for you? Sarcasm's a disturbing thing coming from a woman of your age, Mrs. Landingham. What age would that be, Toby? Late twenties? Atta boy.”

“Helen Mirren and Meryl Streep can play with the boys but there just aren't that many tour-de-force roles out there for women,”

“In addition to the social pressures from the scientific community there is also at work a very human trait of individual scientist. I call it the law of the instrument , and it may be formulated as follows: Give a small boy a hammer, and he will find that everything he encounters needs pounding. It comes as no particular surprise to discover that a scientist formulates problems in a way which requires for their solution just those techniques in which he himself is especially skilled.”

Source : Abraham Kaplan (2017). “The Conduct of Inquiry: Methodology for Behavioural Science”, p.56, Routledge

“I could not have slept tonight if I had left that helpless little creature to perish on the ground.”