Kathy Calvin Quotes

Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

Kathy Calvin

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• I never thought then I'd be doing what I'm doing now. At my high school, being on the girls soccer team was the cool thing to do, but that was definitely never going to happen for me, so I played music. Not because everyone thought it was awesome, but for the love of it.

  

  Kate Voegele
  • Music
  • Thought
  • Awesome

• Whenever I went to a wedding or a party, girls kept complaining about their shoes. I love to dance, and I wanted them to have shoes they could keep on all night.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Night
  • Party
  • Dance

• I feel like there's no such thing as gender.

  

  Young Thug
  • Like
  • Feel
  • Gender

• I'm down to bleach my eyebrows again. I tell you what, though - that didn't go down well with my boyfriend. Girls love it. Guys, not so into it.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Guys
  • Girls
  • Boyfriend

• I love watching old sitcoms. It's very inspiring to watch 'Mary Tyler Moore' and 'Golden Girls.' I have watched them over and over again for years.

  

  Valerie Azlynn
  • Girls
  • Inspiring
  • Watch

• I am drawn to those parts; I like the tough girls because they are not tough. It's a veil; it's a disguise. It's defenses. At the core, everybody is human, everybody is fragile, everybody is terrified, and the fear is what propels you to be tough.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Girls
  • Disguise
  • Fragile

• When it comes to swag, there's no gender involved.

  

  Young Thug
  • Involved
  • Gender

• Clearly, we are not programmed at birth to behave a certain way based on our gender. Instead, we are trained throughout our lives to conform to our gender norms.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Way
  • Birth
  • Gender

• We are a model country where gender equality is concerned.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Country
  • Model
  • Equality

• I have certainly been very front footed about increasing our gender representation at Westpac.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Very
  • Gender
  • Representation

• Grace Jones was an influence, because I was like, 'These shoulders! These pants! Girls can wear pants and be awesome.' That's something I definitely embody.

  

  Lorde
  • Awesome
  • Girls
  • Shoulders

• “When I was young I had all the advantages. My father worked for Howard Hughes, we lived in Bel Air. I went to the best schools, and got the best girls. My intelligence quotient was well above average; and yet I could be a rebellious, troublesome punk who brought more than a little anxiety to my parents.”

  

  Jan Berry
  • Father
  • Parents
  • Air

• What sort of girls do i like? - They are all angels.

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • Like
  • Girls
  • Angels

• I don’t care what gender someone is, or what race they are. Those things don’t matter to me.

  

  Louie Gohmert
  • Care
  • Gender
  • Don't Care

• ... People with great passions, people who accomplish great deeds, people who possess strong feelings, even people with great minds and a strong personality, rarely come out of good little boys and girls.

  

  Lev Vygotsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Girls are so often pitted against each other as enemies or adversaries. We even see it in 'Us' magazine: Who wore it better?

  

  Elizabeth Berkley
  • Girls
  • Enemies
  • Adversaries

• The result was magnificent . . . I became the father of two girls and two boys, lovely children by good fortune they all look like my wife.

  

  Arthur Rubinstein
  • Good
  • Children
  • Father

• As I said in the Times and will say again here, I do, however, believe that most members of our community - as well as the majority of heterosexuals - cannot and do not choose the gender of the persons with whom they seek to have intimate relationships because, unlike me, they are only attracted to one sex.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Believe
  • Community
  • Sex

• I'd find myself leading girls on when I didn't realize I was doing it. I try to distingush between groupies and a genuine fan that just wants to get to know you better. But sometimes I'd really f*ck up. I'd think I was on to a fan that just wanted to talk. Then I'd find out she's trying to ring me up in the next city and writing letters.

  

  Rick Savage Def Leppard
  • Girls
  • Letters
  • Genuine

• In these days, all girls are what is called highly educated. Girls and boys alike must go in for competitive examinations, must take out diplomas, and must pass certain standards of excellence. The system is cramming from beginning to end. There is no time for reflection. In short, my dear girls, you swallow a great deal, but you do not digest your intellectual food.

  

  L. T. Meade
  • Deal
  • Girls
  • Swallow

• They give her tractors and things to play with instead of dolls, just to prove that girls are exactly the same as boys. Mind you, they're a bit illogical, it seems to me, because they have never forced me to play with dolls, which I would have thought would have proved the point just as effectively.

  

  Celia Fremlin
  • Same
  • Boys
  • Girls

• "We like the wrong sort of girls", they wrote. "They are usually the ones worth writing about.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Writing
  • Like
  • Wrong

• I went to college because I felt like I was supposed to. I graduated from public high school and I did all the things that I was supposed to do.

  

  Mila Kunis
  • College
  • Public high school

• Gender data is important. If girls don’t have a birth certificate, how do we know how many are marrying as children?

  

  Kathy Calvin
  • Girls
  • Gender
  • Certificate