Academic Quote by Betty Friedan

I was never good at being a boy, but I was always a good student.

— Hari Nef

It was only when I went to sixth-form college that I encountered boys.

— Michaela Coel

In high school I was a nerd and very academic. On the weekends, instead of going out and partying, I’d close myself in my…

— Troian Bellisario

I wasn't like the rest of the kids. I was an artist. Living in a black society, when you're raised around a bunch of…

— Ashton Sanders

I just wasn't academic. I wanted to be in the real world.

— John Caudwell

Growing up with three boys in a heavily male-dominated world, I especially needed to express myself as a woman.

— Elisabeth Shue

In high school, during marathon phone conversations, cheap pizza dinners and long suburban car rides, I began to fall for boys because of who…

— J. Courtney Sullivan

When childhood ended, I had to suppress feminine characteristics and try and be a boy. I didn't want to grow up at all because…

— Andreja Pejic

I don't know why, but in my career and in my life, I often find myself in situations where I am the only girl…

— Emmanuelle Chriqui

For the longest time, you couldn't even say boys and girls were different. It was taboo in the educational world.

— Jon Scieszka

I felt alienated at school, and I never did well with girls.

— Burt Bacharach

Academics were not a challenge when I was fifteen in college. The challenge was figuring out how to fit in socially.

— Ian Bremmer