Raising Boys Quotes

“As mothers raising sons, we have the power to change the trajectory of not only our own sons’ lives, but also of the culture at large.”
― Melia Keeton Digby, The Hero's Heart: A Coming of Age Circle for Boys

“Instead of simply teaching our sons that girls are meant to be protect, we need to get them excited about helping to to create a world where girls don't have to be afraid anymore. We need to make it very clear to our sons that they are not just doing women a favor by standing up against sexism. They are actually fighting for a stronger, smarter, kinder world, one that is possible only if women are treated equally. Let's raise incredible guys who will know their worth as decent, responsible men and capable, involved, loving dads.”
― Kristina Kuzmic, Hold On, But Don't Hold Still

“It is no better if your son rapes a woman than when your daughter gets raped. It is equally painful, may be more.

~ Rudransh Kashyap”
― Kirtida Gautam, #iAm16iCan

“Everyone's afraid that their daughters might be hurt. No one seems to be scared that their sons might be the ones to do it.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“It's impossible to examine the conditioning that leads boys and men to exhibit some of the more harmful aspects of the 'boys will be boys' mentality later on in life without critiquing the mindset and practice from which this evolves.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Again, not every spurned man will respond to his own unexamined rage by grabbing a gun or a knife or even just a well-organised online harassment squad and slaying whichever women has pissed him off that day. But enough of them do for us to know that it's a problem. We don't stop by isolating them from each other and passing their deeds off as a result of mental illness or depression. We understand it by recognising it as part of a culture of learned entitlement in which the logical endpoint for falling short is violence and retribution.

We change it by going back to the beginning, and starting again.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship

“Boys will be sensitive. Boys will be soft. Boys will be kind. Boys will be gentle. Boys will respect girls. Boys will be accountable for their actions. Boys will be expressive. Boys will be loving. Boys will be nurturing.

Boys will be different from everything the world has so far told them they have to be in order to be a man.”
― Clementine Ford, Boys Will Be Boys: Power, Patriarchy and the Toxic Bonds of Mateship