Girls read everything. To them, it doesn't matter whether the main character is a boy or a girl. When one lets boys decide what to read, they always choose a book with a boy as its main character. Generally speaking, boys read less. A librarian once told me how a boy always came up to her and asked for an adventure book for himself and a girl's book for his sister. When he was ill, his mother came instead and asked for an adventure book. The librarian asked the mother if she didn't want to take anything for the sister. The woman replied that there was no sister.”

Paraphe Christine Nöstlinger