Female Icon Quotes

#1. When I created Buffy, I wanted to create a female icon, but I also wanted to be very careful to surround her with men that not only have no problem with the idea of a female leader, but were in fact engaged and even attracted to the idea.

Joss Whedon

#2. Reason has to be strengthened by suffering, and suffering opens the eyes of understanding.

Mahatma Gandhi

#3. Dinner will be served at the usual time and I am pleased to say there will be no discernible traces left of the recent occurrence by that time.

Kazuo Ishiguro

#4. To abandon your love for God is to disregard his command

Sunday Adelaja

#5. Too much wit makes the world rotten.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#6. The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the idea?

Gustave Flaubert

#7. Perhaps when it comes to it, no one is just the worst thing they ever did.

M.L. Stedman

#8. Marriage is worse than dying. Why stay with one person for fifty years? We advise against marriage.

Joey Ramone

#9. It is axiomatic that we should all think of ourselves as being more sensitive than other people because, when we are insensitive in our dealings with others, we cannot be aware of it at the time; conscious insensitivity is a self-contradiction.

W. H. Auden

#10. There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

Henry Fielding

#11. For any character, male or female, I think it's important to have ... it's cliche to say a flawed character, but to really think about the good and the bad and make sure that both are present, and it doesn't just become a glossed over icon of perfection.

Jane Jensen

#12. The British nation is unique in this respect: they are the only people who like to be told how bad things are, who like to be told the worst.

Winston S. Churchill

#13. The woman who thinks she is intelligent demands equal rights with men. A woman who is intelligent does not.

Colette

#14. Christmas is for children. But it is for grownups too. Even if it is a headache, a chore, and nightmare, it is a period of necessary defrosting of chill and hide bound hearts.

Lenora Mattingly Weber

#15. To look for some kind of insight or meaning in pop songs is not really - well there's plenty of other places where you should probably look first before you start looking for it in a pop song.

Jason Newsted

#16. And I'd be lying if I told you that as a black man in baseball I hadn't gone through worse times than my teammates.

Curt Flood