Female Quotes

Once you're a parent, male or female, every single thing that happens in your life is seen through the prism of being a parent.

The female struggle implies the black struggle, it implies the struggle with anti-Semitism, it implies all of the other struggles. That is the only possible way to think about human liberation.

I had both male and female heroes.

Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

I have had many more close women friends than men, and I've always assumed that comes from the fact that in my family there was such a disproportionate female element.

Sometimes writing a novel is not unlike having a baby. You'd have to ask a female novelist to compare the pain.

What is the reason that women servants ... have much lower wages than men servants ... when in fact our female house servants work much harder than the male?

When female minds are embittered by age or solitude, their malignity is generally exerted in a rigorous and spiteful superintendence of domestic trifles.

Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching.

There weren't roles for females in comedies for a really long time.

If a studio sees that a female can bring in audiences, then they're going to make movies with that person.

I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and welcoming.

Un momento con una donna capricciosa vale undici anni di vita noiosa. A single moment with a fiery female is worth eleven years of a boring life.

I would tell any actress that the trick is to play all the female characters on your show, and then all the men are yours.

I believe young female directors in particular should always remind themselves of the truths of their own stories and not let outsiders influence the authenticity of their films.

It's rare that you get to work with actors, female or not, where you all get along. Just because of the nature of humanity.

I want to do a little bit of everything. I want to play a good, strong female character.

He offers you a chance to surrender. (Female Gallu) I told him to quit sucking the blood of idiots. It’s now infected his own intellect. (Stryker)

So who was she? (Vane) Why do you assume it was a female? (Fang) Didn’t know you were fond of men. I’ll file that under my special Fang folder. (Vane)

I know I’m Charonte and we defer to our females, but you have to respect the fact that I’m Charonte and we protect our females to the end. You be my female. I be protecting. (Xedrix)

Female authors were still using male names when I was young, or they were neatly shoehorned into womens books except for those few that men could always point at when the disparity was pointed out.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

I guess my writing through time has focused on a number of dimensions that reflect separately on the meaning and social place of the female body.

The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.

When I write, I put aside the heterosexual world to admit a muse that is a woman-loving-woman female.

Pop music seems to be the way radio programming has chosen to support female artists. They have chosen not to support a more provocative voice from women, which I find disappointing.

You don't really hear a female perspective on the radio, because so many of the songs are being written by men.

When it comes to female fan attention, I'm married, so obviously I avoid the places where you might get unwanted female attention - clubs and social environments, bars and public spaces.

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

The music business is a place where the artists are all treated like we're working for the people who are working for us. That can obviously be exaggerated when you're a female.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

I'm gonna be real - there's no female rappers in the game.

I'm still confounded by how few female directors there are. I don't get it.

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

I’m listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I’m pretty well-versed in the pop female category.

You do not need to be female to be offended.

We just need a strong female perspective, especially in the world now...when the degrading of women has become such a popular thing.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

A beautifully-designed coat that drapes magnificently on the female form.

Make-up? What happened? You look almost female." "Thanks. You look almost straight.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

Then I get it, what it means. At least, for me. District 12 only has three existing victors to choose from. Two male. One female... I am going back into the arena.

Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

My mum is Croatian, and obviously she's female and she's very emotional, very hot-blooded, very touchy-feely, whereas I think my dad's quite British.