Female Quotes

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

When I was making films [early in my career] there were very, very few female directors, and there were certainly no women on set, which made taking one's clothes off all the more difficult.

Paradoxically, when females reject the male, they usurp the masculine role and abandon the feminine one.

The strangest thing [to sign] has to be parts of [fan's] anatomy. But mostly female.

Strange as it may seem, there is nothing in which a young and beautiful female appears to more advantage than in the art of smoking.

Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

Thank Heaven, the female heart is untenantable by atheism.

Novels without female characters were a lifeless desert.

I think it's kind of crazy that we're still calling comedians "female comedians." That seems more like a sneak attack.

I tried to picture a female version of Jim and got Jim in a dress instead. The image was disturbing.

Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole?

I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I was supposed to marry and make everyone around me happy.

I don't try and write strong female characters or strong male characters, I just try and write, hopefully, strong characters and sometimes they happen to be female.

What was said about him, what the females needed to believe about him, was just oral masturbation for mouths that needed to be otherwise occupied.

You are perfect for a female." "Not where I come from." "Then they're using the wrong standard.

This was the gift of recovery, he thought. The ability to be here in this moment with the female he loved and be fully aware, fully awake, fully present. Undiluted.

By patting somebody on the back, a boy or a girl, a professional dancer, male, female, it really makes people feel good and I know it certainly made me feel good.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

I think boys don't always like to read books with female protagonist - I don't even know what to say about this.

You just don't really rehearse kissing scenes, whether it's male or female.

No male can beat a female in the long run because they have it over us in sheer, damn longevity.

It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body.

Carrying a baby is the most rewarding experience a female can enjoy. A father shares in that experience, knowing that he caused it to happen.

Marriage is a big adjustment for anyone - male or female. There is no guarantee that a person who has become set in his or her ways can successfully make that transition.

Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French.

You hit the wall almost right when you get up to the top. If there's a female writer being suggested to do a rewrite on a script, it's always the big boys going, "Mm, let's go with [a man]..."

Look, Mother, I am never going to be thin. I'm Norwegian. If you wanted a thin daughter, you should not have married a man whose female ancestors carried cows home from the pasture

Why would people have confidence in a female director when there are so few?

Being a novelist is hard for anyone - male or female. You don't get to quit your day job.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

When I criticize Joseph Beuys or Francis Bacon, nobody calls those opinions anti-male. Putting female artists or their subject matter off-limits is itself sexist and limiting.

There are a lot of male directors who are directing female-driven pieces. I think that its good to get the girl's point of view and they should write stuff that they know.

I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts too.

My first quote was, I don't want to hurt God's people. Jim Bakker's quote was, I was set up by a female...

A female vocal can lift a song.

In general, I think the best thing to do is to connect with other females. I love meeting other female artists and feeling like we're all rooting for each other. I think that's shifted even more.

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because you're trying to create an identity; you look to others to model.

I was thinking about what I wanted to write next, after my first novel, and had decided that I wanted to write a story with a lot of strong female characters in it.

I love British female directors lately.

It's hard to tell whether the ship or airplane - they're all the same, I'm convinced - is male or female; it may shift back and forth.

I've always had difficulties with female characters.

I have no prejudice against male or female.

I'm not involved with the female world.

I have male fans, but I'm persuading them to become female!