Female Quotes

Cooper wrote a novel which is absolutely indistinguishable from Austen, completely from a female point of view, completely English, no sense that he was an American.

Without the benefit of Google, ask anybody to name more than five female filmmakers that have made more than three films. It's shockingly hard.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

I guess the characters I play may be at the more destructive edge of the spectrum, more damaged or whatever, but I find a lot of female roles uninteresting.

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

I'm not the marrying kind -" St. Vincent snorted. "No man is. Marriage is a female invention.

I think for any director, male or female, it would be just to be prepared, work hard, and not give up! As my agent once told me, it's all about stamina before you ever end up on set!

A male director doesn't come to situations the same way that a female director would.

I think that there is just a deep and abiding sexism that's part of your life from the moment that you're conscious as a female.

I was a weird tomboy most of my life. I didn't see the power in my own female form for quite a long time. Maybe that's a good thing.

Power for men means the ability to make things happen ... The female definition of power is the ability not to have to please.

You needn't consult me about redecorating. I know no female can live two days in a house and leave anything as it was. I shall be much astonished if I can find my way about when I return.

Women don't have a sense of humor. They don't need one. The Almighty made them as a permanent joke on men. From which one may logically deduce tha the Almighty is a female.

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

I guess it's pretty diverse, but I do have quite a 30-and-older male audience coming out to the shows. I don't know if that's due to me being a female or what.

I'm a really restless person; I'm tired of the way I sounded or looked yesterday. So it's hard to hang onto this image of me as this young Swedish female in this world.

I hate to disappoint my haters, but I'm not the least bit interested in being a man. I'm perfectly satisfied with the female role.

My protagonists, male and female, are me.

When I ran for governor, was I ambitious? Yes. Anyone, male or female, who goes through the trials of a campaign must be ambitious.

There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home still lingers in some quarters.

People love pitting strong females against each other.

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or an elephant.

Aging is fraught with difficulties, most particularly for women who have been socialized to think of youth as beauty and the female role as reproduction.

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

I'm interested in the female dom/male sub dynamic, and how superficially it can seem like a total reverse of gender roles and maybe even subversive or something.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

A baroque art-rock bubblegum broadcast on a frequency understood only by female teenagers and bred field mice.

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

It's all too easy when talking about female gymnasts to fall into the trap of infantilizing them, spending more time worrying more about female vulnerability than we do celebrating female strength.

Since male and female incarnations are equally necessary for self-knowledge, it is not right to look upon one as being more important than the other.

I had a female business partner once. Didn't work.

I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

I love female singer-songwriters!

Sometimes I take a movie selfishly because it's a female lead.

Romance novels satisfy a very specific fantasy of romantic love that seems to be a powerful part of the female psyche.

Jessica Jones is the first female superhero Marvel's ever introduced as a lead.

I grew up in a family of predominantly female bread winners who are strong and are fierce and opinionated. There’s not enough women like that on the screen.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

Power is neither male or female.

My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way!

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

Honestly, I feel like I am a leading man, and it's just going to take the right project, the female and the right studio. It's got to all gel together, you know what I mean?

I think there will always be a double standard between males and females, so I think that an actress is more likely to protect her public persona, so to speak, than an actor would be.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

To your point earlier if a female movie does well they're like "Oohhhh! I can't believe it did well! Maybe the next one will do well, too."

I've never felt stigmatized in my profession, nor have I allowed myself to. I don't feel either male or female, I feel I am just me, and I should be able to do whatever I like.

There was a male sketch group in my college. I was like why isn't there a female sketch group? So then I started doing sketch comedy and all that stuff. It just happened.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.