Female Quotes

#1. Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

Naomi Watts

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

Michel De Montaigne

#3. I'm naturally athletic, and I think playing strong, female roles just kind of happened.

Adrianne Palicki

#4. You, woman, are without a doubt the most senseless female I could have picked to fall in love with.

Kat Martin

#5. I read the script for 'Guncrazy' in 1985 and loved it because it was one of the few scripts I'd come across that revolved around a strong female character.

Tamra Davis

#6. When I look at my life and the lives of my female friends these days - with our dizzying number of opportunities and talents - I sometimes feel as though we are all mice in a giant experimental maze, scurrying around frantically, trying to find our way through.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#7. All the men's clothes she wore just called attention to how much of a girl she was.

Rainbow Rowell

#8. In the long history of male and female relations all the way back to the Garden, I can't think of one in which a woman's anger ever won over a man.

Marie Arana

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

Jennifer Lawrence

#10. A kind Providence has so skilfully adapted sex to sex and the mass of individuals to each other, that, with certain obvious exceptions, any male and female may be moderately happy in the married state.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

#11. Nothing means anything but you still have to follow the rules.

Scarlett Thomas

#12. I am blessed to live and work in [France,] a country where women filmmakers are by and large not unfairly treated. So I wouldn't have much to contribute regarding issues faced as a female director.

Anne Fontaine

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

Jenny Eclair

#14. she didn't get the subtle nuances of female friendship that other women seemed to have been born knowing. She

Michelle Major

#15. Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

Camille Paglia

#16. I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature of having worked with my sister - growing up with a sister who also plays, and being in communication with other female musicians.

Emily Robison

#17. The nerds are my favourite sort of boys - any guy with a passion - whether it be physics or film or writing or poetry even, I think it's super sweet and it's very attractive for a female.

Teresa Palmer

#18. The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether she's wearing a bikini or a burqa. We don't stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.

Rachel Held Evans

#19. To speak as black, female, and commercial lawyer has rendered me simultaneously universal, trendy, and marginal.

Patricia J. Williams

#20. I was a twenty-two-year-old single white female alone in a strange country where my sister had been killed.

Karen Marie Moning

#21. SNSD is a group of 9 girl female students. We're pretty one by one as well,but its when we're all together that we can really shine.

Jessica Jung

#22. The life of a female politician makes it hard to combine personal life and work, but I think it is almost a patriotic duty to have children.

Marion Marechal-Le Pen

#23. But you have so much in common. You're both from strange little backwater planets. You both have odd powers. You're male and she's female. What more do you need? Believe me, buddy, if I were you, I'd go right up there and ask her if she wants to ride on my rancor.

Dave Wolverton

#24. Take the tail of the female tuna - and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.

Mark Kurlansky

#25. God, I hate my voice! Everyone thinks I'm a female, probably ... I am actually a male!

Ray Toro

#26. something important is indeed at stake that has to do with the relationship between female liberation and female beauty.

Naomi Wolf

#27. Unlike femininity, relaxed masculinity is at bottom empty, a limp nullity. While the female body is full of internal potentiality, the male is internally barren. Manhood at the most basic level can be validated and expressed only in action.

George Gilder

#28. I think that freshness and that innocence is something that is missing from a lot of female singers. I'm certainly not denying that I'm young, but I'm not fluff.

Jessica Simpson

#29. I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at this level. There are a lot of great female jockeys.

Chantal Sutherland

#30. You have to let her know you're in charge!"
"I thought I was!" Typical female. The mare had only let him THINK he was in charge.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#31. What makes a strong female character is a character who has weaknesses, who has flaws, who is maybe not immediately likable, but eventually relatable.

Tavi Gevinson

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

Susan Elizabeth Phillips

#33. A king without a queen is not a king. The main point of creation is the union of male and female.

Yosef Yitzchak Jacobson

#34. People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.

Maggie Q

#35. It is noteworthy, however, that this areas also contains neurons which when stimulated can trigger female sexual posturing (Benson, 1988; Rose, 1990); i.e. the lordosis (or "doggie") position. These latter neurons are interconnected with the amygdala and ventromedial hypothalamus--nuclei

R. Joseph

#36. No country will reach its full potential if its female citizens do not enjoy full equality.

Helen Clark

#37. Two things a wise man never discloses to the public; his money and his women.

Habeeb Akande

#38. Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through my divorce - I had three children, I was in show business and black. It was, like, impossible.

Diana Ross

#39. The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

Lydia Lunch

#40. I love basketball. I love football. And to me, I think that's a dimension that you don't see with a lot of female leads, especially. I have a genuine love for it, and I always thought it was very interesting to show that side of me.

Cristela Alonzo

#41. Because men, compared to male chimps, have such relatively small testicles (large testicles indicate a species where many males mate, one after the other, with the same female), we might guess that promiscuous societies were uncommon in the immediate human past.

Carl Sagan

#42. And if he presses, tell him it's a female matter. That stops any question.

Elizabeth Hoyt

#43. Why must the power of the female body cancel the power of the female mind? Are we so afraid of having both?

Marya Hornbacher

#44. I wish that there were more female driven films, female-centric films being made.

Heather Graham

#45. The Goddess is not just the female version of God. She represents a different concept.

Merlin Stone

#46. I want to keep playing strong female roles. I don't mean superheroes, but women who are really alive.

Bel Powley

#47. I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of women?

Evan Goldberg

#48. If the poetry world celebrate its female stars at the true level of their productivity and influence, poetry would wind up being a largely female world, and the men would leave.

Eileen Myles

#49. Women are often meeker in meetings and afraid to ask for raises and promotions. I've told countless female colleagues to stop apologizing when they ask for more. It's not personal, it's business.

Katharine Weymouth

#50. You are the Worst Kind of Animal. A Butcher by Day and a Pussy Cat by Night.

Monroe Ariel

#51. Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

Victor Hugo

#52. I'm Trey. And you are ... ?"
"Intolerant of jackasses who fuck with my female.

Larissa Ione

#53. In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

Shelley Winters

#54. Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I'm talking about, I knew Janis.

Roger Daltrey

#55. I have no prejudice against male or female.

John Lone

#56. I don't really consider myself a female director, and I don't want to do so for other women. Female directors are just directors.

Alante Kavaite

#57. Hasten Little Maiden
...
stop and listen
for pearls of wisdom
stop and listen
as the river glistens ...

Muse

#58. Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

Roddy Piper

#59. Everywhere sex is understood to be something females have that males want.

Donald Symons

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

Samuel Johnson

#61. I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).

Debra Webb

#62. It is during fertility that a female loses herself and enters that cloud overly rich in estrogen.

Sandra Tsing Loh

#63. The world we live in is made up of polar opposites, black/white, male/female, night/day, and a human being who possesses both masculine and feminine - vulnerability and strength - is intriguing to us, whether they be a singer or actor or dancer, intrigues us, because THAT Is who we really are.

RuPaul

#64. Manufacturing offspring had damaged his female's emotional system. He

Cynthia Sax

#65. The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

Anne Sexton

#66. I couldn't shake this feeling that I had uncovered more than something ordinary.

Nicole Gulla

#67. There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

Jillian Mayer

#68. For a man it's like if something goes on on-stage you'll have a drink at the bar and talk about it. With a female artist it's a big deal, you have a meeting and she's mad at you for the next couple of shows!

Chris Johnson

#69. I want to be a Huntress when I grow up!" shouted a voice from the throng.
Kyna rolled her eyes and shook her head. "You can't be a Huntress, Liam. You're not a centaur and you're not a female.

P.C. Cast

#70. I think there is a wonderful trend of strong female characters on television right now.

Amanda Schull

#71. When it comes to getting more women into parliament, politicians have at least started to take active measures. The British Labour Party introduced all-female shortlists in 1997.

Noreena Hertz

#72. There are female artists I can look at that I find more in common with than the male artists, because they're blending the pop, dance and theatricality ... but currently there aren't a lot of guys who go there.

Adam Lambert

#73. The Butcherettes are led by a female singer, and they're sort of wild.

Chino Moreno

#74. Piper!" Frank yelled. "Counter those empousai! We need some chaos."
"Thought you'd never ask." She started catcalling at the female demons: "Your makeup is smeared! Your friend called you ugly! That one is making a face behind your back!

Rick Riordan

#75. My aspiration to become a jurist had been laid to rest in the Graveyard of Failed Hopes, an all-female establishment. The sorrow of it had faded, but regret remained, and I'd taken to wondering if the Fates might be kinder to a different girl.

Sue Monk Kidd

#76. A word of advice, Will Henry. When a person of the female gender says she wants to show you something, run the other way. The odds are it is not something you wish to see.

Rick Yancey

#77. Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to desecrate that holy holiday - opened her soft blue eyes on this mundane sphere.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

#78. He knew he was being overbearing as hell, but he couldn't help it. He was a bonded male. With his pregnant female. There were few things on the planet more aggressive or dangerous. And those bastards were called hurricanes and tornadoes.

J.R. Ward

#79. The "sharp female newly-born, and called La Guillotine," was hardly known to him, or to the generality of people, by name.

Charles Dickens

#80. I have always contended that girls are the sturdier of the genders and wondered in secret if the One that Is might not best be identified with the creativity of the female heart.

Tosca Lee

#81. In other words, for purposes of sex discrimination law, to be a woman means either to be like a man or like a lady. We have to meet either the male standard for males or the male standard for females.

Catharine A. MacKinnon

#82. His female didn't belong in this foul place. And since he belonged with her, then neither did he. He didn't care what he had to do, he'd find a way to get her home.

Kresley Cole

#83. For the female of the species is more deadly than the male.

Rudyard Kipling

#84. 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.

Loretta Chase

#85. With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

Lorde

#86. If I have chosen the female form in particular, it is because beauty has been debased and exploited in our sensual 20th century.

Ruth Bernhard

#87. Using you as a standard is completely unfair to the rest of the female population

Colleen Hoover

#88. As a female I think it's a terrible hindrance in business. I think it's a terrible hindrance for any female to have a lot of intelligence in private life, but I think in business sometimes it's even worse because there's deep resentment.

Bette Davis

#89. It may be something to do with my having been to a girls' school, but I'm far more comfortable making male friendships than female ones. My friends tend to be men and their significant others.

Joanne Harris

#90. Again, the male is by nature superior, and the female inferior; and the one rules, and the other is ruled; this principle, of necessity, extends to all mankind.

Aristotle.

#91. I've always thought that there is a great female James Bond movie to be done. I'm not literally calling her Jane Bond, I mean, but a female secret agent.

Aaron Sorkin

#92. Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A woman criticizing his or Fritz's cooking was an insult. But corned beef hash was one of life's toughest problems, never yet solved by anyone.

Rex Stout

#93. I'd like to be in a female version of The Fugitive. Something where I don't have to be ripped up like an action star, but be a normal, healthy lady who is framed and on the run. I'd have to run from explosions and punch people in the face but not rappel down a building.

Jenny Slate

#94. When I reached the bar, I ordered a Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster from the female Klingon bartender and downed half of it.

Ernest Cline

#95. 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.

Salman Rushdie

#96. Music is the key to the female heart.

Johann G. Seume

#97. If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts.

Camille Paglia

#98. He could deal with hatred, but he couldn't deal with fear.
A crying, cowering female in his bed just didn't do it for him. On the other hand, angry sex could be fucking hot as shit.

Larissa Ione

#99. No one wants to rattle the cage of a "crazy" person whose family tends to snap.

Nicole Gulla

#100. At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get a lot of letters from women who tell me that, after watching Xena, they have bought the Harley-Davidson they always wanted or left an abusive relationship.

Lucy Lawless