So when I was at work during these times, I always felt like I was shortchanging my girls.

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But I feel like those girls that are on top at the moment, they're playing very aggressively, and that's the way you have to play in order to win.

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"I came back so girls don't have to negotiate like I did to achieve their dreams, " she said.

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"I was seeing books out there like Nice Girls Don't Get The Corner Office, " says Kahlon, 34.

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It may be true that girls like the California, but I have it on good authority that plenty of boys do too.

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And I never was like really, at that age, around a lot more black girls at a day-to-day basis.

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Just like mothers of girls have reacted against the passive princess role, I wish I could see more parents of boys reacting against things like the skull-and-crossbones pirate ghetto.

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While the other girls in Thanh's basement learned to dress like Jenny, I found comfort in the girl whose parents were as stubborn as mine: Loan, who remained Loan, which carried a lovely double syllabic.

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The main idea that the girls are the monsters was there, but it still doesn't feel like I'm done with it.

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At the tennis clubs across the country, I was the New York City private school kid who spent weekends at tournaments like the rest of the girls.

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BLACKMAN-MATHIS: I think they were kind of expecting us to be, you know, just a group of little girls, like, complaining about something.

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