I used to chase every spark of attitude I could find on TV; tomboy heroines became my compass. They swing swords, fix engines ...

I felt I would only be taken seriously as a young girl if I stuck adamantly to the tough character of a tomboy. I had to pick only one true label, to fit in a categorical box — even if I had to ...

A third explained that she refuses to use it because there is nothing boylike about being active, athletic or tough. Hundreds of readers commented on an article about the term “tomboy” and how ...

“It was tough, but afterwards it was the biggest rush ... She says: “At school I was a tomboy, I didn’t have a solid group of friends. When I was 9 I had a day off school sick and stumbled ...

Tomboy, sexist though the word may be ... The message to them is that if they veer too far toward masculine — being tough, rejecting dresses and skirts, wearing short hair — they’re no ...

Max was the cool tomboy skater who had the highest score on Dig Dug, and Sink, with her vibrant red hair and permanent scowl, embodied her tough girl attitude perfectly. In the next season ...

An utterly charming, smart, and tough tomboy, she becomes “the most important girl in the world” as the key to the cure for a fast-approaching global pandemic. Of course, the purported star of ...

She’s now revealing why she embraced a tomboy look in her early days ... has decided that she is allowed to be smart, beautiful, tough, sexy, bold, shapely, radical and have “strong thoughts ...

acting tough and even entertaining the idea of a girl being interested in her. The end of summer and the start of school promise an end to Laure’s dual identities. Tomboy is a touching coming-of-age ...

“A sexy tomboy dresses with a sense of ruggedness, and the effect is tough, not super skin-baring,” says Vogue.com Market Editor Kelly Connor. “Think a tight skirt balanced with an oversize ...