Female Quotes

#1. The 'enduring theme' [in fiction] of male competition and female competition for the hero/survivor has taken us from the fittest surviving to the brink of no one surviving. Sex roles have gone from functional to dysfunctional almost overnight. This is why the enduring theme must be questioned now.

Warren Farrell

#2. Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to conform.

Margaret Mead

#3. 'Senior Citizen' and 'Silver Surfer' are the new euphemisms. Unless you're a female presenter on TV, in which case you're ready for the knacker's yard at 35.

Terry Wogan

#4. So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like, of the physically and compared to the men.

Yingluck Shinawatra

#5. Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of purpose in terms of the male character's narrative and it just isn't fully formed. But they will be very beautiful. Whether a secretary or a doctor or a vet, they will be very beautiful.

Andrea Riseborough

#6. That the female of the species was as cruel as, and more implacable than, the male, O had never doubted for a minute.

Pauline Reage

#7. I don't think in a male or female way. I don't differentiate between male and female. I never have. I'm not considered a feminist.

Martha Stewart

#8. You know, that kind of coldness, you know. And I think, yeah, I think that definitely helped. The female characters on the show, you can see some of them wanting to know what makes him tick. And I guess that translates into some of the fans outside. You know?

Matt Robinson

#9. When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and WUSA. Muscles on female athletes are OK now. Young
girls can look up to beautiful, athletic, fit women.

Jennie Finch

#10. We are creating a fabulous franchise with an incredible female action hero.

Jan De Bont

#11. Well, I think women across Australia, particularly, are a bit fed up with this constant attack and belittling of women in politics, and particularly the role of a female as a prime minister.

Christine Milne

#12. I am probably responsible for the odd fact that people don't seem to name their daughters Lolita any more. I have heard of young female poodles being given that name since 1956, but of no human beings.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. Do you honestly want credit because you didn't do anything to a helpless female?"
"No! Yes. No, damn it -

Kresley Cole

#14. So many other countries have had female leaders, in fact the U.S. ranks 61st in female representation in government and I think it is startling and sign of a change that needs to be made.

Geena Davis

#15. The male gay community seems to be very into female singers. I think it could be the songs we sing. They're more open with their feelings. And they have good taste!

Liza Minnelli

#16. voice said. "Doesn't that hurt now that he's coming around?" a second female voice asked.

Chuck Logan

#17. Women need the archetypal image of a Divine Female. We need to reconnect with the inherent sacredness of woman as creator and nourisher, rather than accept a vision of ourselves as less-than-divine inferiors.

Layne Redmond

#18. One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.

Mallory Ortberg

#19. I have often wondered if the irrational fear some men have of women that incites them to subjugate and oppress the female species begins in the adage: I brought you into this world, I can take you out!

Annastacia Dickerson

#20. There are no female geniuses because there are no female Jack-the-Rippers.

Camille Paglia

#21. We should be cultivating our female workers. The truth of the matter is that women just see problems and solutions differently, and that's valuable.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#22. In the history of the hip hop world ... there has been one, single, solitary human being in the history of the world. One female rapper to sell more albums than me in the first week.

Nicki Minaj

#23. I'm not interested in making movies only with female protagonists. I think it's ridiculous to think that a female director can't direct men. That makes no sense to me.

Elizabeth Banks

#24. And I, a vampire who had seduced countless mortals in his impossibly long existence, was forced to admit that it was she, this beautiful young human female, who had instead seduced me.

Krisi Keley

#25. Pornography is the undiluted essence of anti-female propaganda.

Susan Brownmiller

#26. White is associated with purity because the entire spectrum is functioning in unity. White is a healing color. White is appropriate for weddings because the unity of male and female symbolizes the unity of allness.

Tae Yun Kim

#27. The first Goddess, Gaia, who was the earth, wide hipped, big bellied, the womb of the human race, the nurturing breast of all humans, the opulent and voracious beginning of all things female.

Kerry Greenwood

#28. I'm not much interested in travelling scholarships for women - or in fact in scholarships, tout court! - they'd much better stay at home and mind the baby. Still less am I interested in scholarships for female Yids ...

Edith Wharton

#29. To embrace all things means also that one rids oneself of any concept of separation; male and female, self and other, life and death.

Brian Browne Walker

#30. Some women bristle, in certain contexts, at being called female: it seems to focus exclusively on the reproductive system, and makes you feel like a chicken, all thighs and breasts.

Mary Norris

#31. Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

Frans De Waal

#32. As a feminist, I consider the female pronoun to be an honorific, a term that conveys respect. Respect is due to women as members of a sex caste that have survived subordination and deserve to be addressed with honour. Men who transgender cannot occupy such a position.

Sheila Jeffreys

#33. In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

Al Roker

#34. The stronger the participation of the female characters, the better the movie. They knew that in the old days, when women stars were equally as important as men.

Clint Eastwood

#35. But it is Bella, not the supernaturals she falls in with, who is the true horror show here, at least as a female role model.

Peggy Orenstein

#36. A society that does not use the intellectual power of its female population fully is not a wise society. Most women are not as tainted by mistakes in the conduct of the economy as the male population, and now they deserve an opportunity.

Johanna Siguroardottir

#37. Was Eve's sin so much greater and more unforgivable than Adam's that the entire female gender must forever be treated with suspicion and controlling measures?

Alan F. Johnson

#38. I don't check any particular box. I've never caught feelings for anyone because they were a male or a female. I feel for people because of who they are. Not what they are.

Tammy Ferebee

#39. Do you have anyone in mind, Hugo?" the duke asked. "Not really." Hugo sighed. "I have an army of female cousins and aunts who would be only too

Mary Balogh

#40. It's good to have female or minority role models. But the important thing is to have mentors who care about you, and they come in all colors.

Condoleezza Rice

#41. People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill - really unnerves people.

Caleb Carr

#42. I sat, head down, quivering furiously at their inferences of female sell-by dates and life as game of musical chairs where girls without a chair/man when the music stops/they pass thirty are 'out.'
Huh. As if.

Helen Fielding

#43. If God is Mother, then we need only gather together with people and adore her through rituals intended to satisfy the female soul, ritual involving dance, fire, water, air, earth, songs, music, flowers, and beauty.

Paulo Coelho

#44. If so few female geniuses are found in history, it is because society denies them any means of expression.

Simone De Beauvoir

#45. The triangle pointing downward is a female symbol corresponding to the yoni and the upward pointing triangle is the male, the lingam ... When the two triangles are interlaced, it represents the union of the active and passive forces in nature; it represents the male and female elements.

Albert Mackey

#46. I think that weird rumor or idea in Hollywood that people don't want to see female-driven movies couldn't be further from the truth. Women buy tickets to movies.

Michelle Monaghan

#47. There's nothing scarier than female unity.

Yoko Maki

#48. The disciplinary power that inscribes femininity in the female body is everywhere and it is nowhere; the disciplinarian is everyone and yet no one in particular.

Sandra Bartky

#49. In terms of language, there were no separate words for female genitalia for thousands of years. That was mostly because women were considered pretty much the same as men, only of course flimsier, more poorly designed, and incapable of writing in the snow.

Elissa Stein And Susan Kim

#50. One of the most striking features of karate is that it may be engaged in by anybody, young or old, strong or weak, male or female.

Gichin Funakoshi

#51. I don't know anything except being female, so I don't know the opposite of it.

Courtney Barnett

#52. The first class antagonism appearing in history coincides with the development of the antagonism of man and wife in monogamy, and the first class oppression with that of the female by the male sex.

Friedrich Engels

#53. We are all souls, and what I have learnt so far is that while God is male, the souls created by Him are female, so I always had women as my theme, as they are dedicated to Him.

Kailash Kher

#54. The experience of the human, male or female, cannot be completely defined by one startling, surprising, or gigantic life experience.

Jenny Slate

#55. Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

Richard Roeper

#56. Menstruating is the only part of being female I have ever disliked. Everything else feels like a unique and covetable privilege, but this?

Lena Dunham

#57. I enjoy female rappers, not because they're female but because I can connect to them more.

Lizzo

#58. Marlene Dumas is one of the two or three most successful female artists alive, if you judge by prices. I've never reviewed her work, because I find nothing in it to get excited about no matter how hard I look.

Jerry Saltz

#59. With surgical insight, Inside Madeline delves into the most complex female territory imaginable and dissects until every honest bone is revealed. Bomer's prose doesn't flinch, doesn't filter-the bravery of these stories left me breathless.

Alissa Nutting

#60. The noble calling to rule and subdue the earth in God's name was perverted, as male and female tried to rule and subdue each other.

Carolyn Custis James

#61. Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

Betty Dodson

#62. I think the book struck me in a few ways that I thought very interesting to pick it as my first martial arts film. It has a very strong female character and it was very abundant in classic Chinese textures.

Ang Lee

#63. In spite of all my efforts to create a neat, tidy, obedient, moderate, unexceptional persona, I was simply
too weird for them; until that is, my first female tutor was hired.

Salman Rushdie

#64. And there above all of these shops hung a blood soaked sign: a red hand, the hand of a child that was neither male nor female and yet roused feelings of the most dejected and criminal love

Georges Limbour

#65. Good female friendships are the strongest relationships in the world.

Jessie Elliot

#66. I am a black British female artist, so I must be like Ms Dynamite, I must be like Shystie, I must be like Jamelia, but we're all different.

Estelle

#67. This trash rots the female mind! Only a man could possibly write a book where a woman falls in love with her rapist!

Shannon Hill

#68. Life doesn't change when you meet a guy and life doesn't fall apart when you break up with one. We are teaching young female readers the wrong things through books not only expressing this point, but also using these two concepts as turning plot points of novels.

Meghan Blistinsky

#69. There's still prejudice and that resistance regarding women, not only on female football but in various activities. Men think that women are a bit fragile to perform some types of activities or don't have the ability and aren't strong enough.

Marta

#70. I don't really want to play parts that I think are not fully developed or fleshed out, especially with female roles.

Romola Garai

#71. I completely identify as female, believe it or not.

Amy Schumer

#72. At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?

Leticia Van De Putte

#73. The female suspect, you said someone she'd counseled. You have her records?

J.D. Robb

#74. Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as quickly promoted as a male schlemiel.

Bella Abzug

#75. When I was growing up, my mom told me every story that was happening to her. Most of the stories that come to me are through a female voice in my head. My stories seem to naturally be about females.

Natalie Portman

#76. 'Elizabeth' is something I've looked to a lot for a strong female leader.

Emilia Clarke

#77. I don't set out to write female lead shows, necessarily. I like deeply flawed characters. When they come to me, or when I'm introduced to them, I follow the stories and the people, rather than setting out to do a female lead thing.

Jenji Kohan

#78. I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

Chloe Grace Moretz

#79. Another female observer found Madison entertaining in private but "mute, cold, and repulsive" in company.

Ron Chernow

#80. What's with the beard and the horse mane? You look like Rent-a-Villain."
The volhv's eyes widened. He raised his hand at me. "Well you don't look ... female ... in your pants."
"That's a hell of an insult. Did you think of it all by yourself or did you ask your god for help?

Ilona Andrews

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

Shirley Manson

#82. The realization that God could be female required the consideration that the Devil could be also.

Thomas Lynch

#83. Many of the signals that either stoke or diminish female desire have to do with the female brain's question: Is it safe here?

Naomi Wolf

#84. It's funny, everywhere I go some people ask me whether it's going to be a Latino breakthrough, some people ask me whether it's going to be a female breakthrough, and then I'm reminded that five years ago we didn't even know Barack Obama's name.

Gwen Ifill

#85. Regardless of the business aspect of things, is there a reason that there isn't a female Hitchcock or a female Scorsese or a female Spielberg? I don't know. I think it's a medium that really is built for the male gaze and for a male sensibility.

Bret Easton Ellis

#86. I connect with an aura, with energy. And if the person with whom I connect happens to be a female, that's just the way it is.

Kristanna Loken

#87. Female artists I love the most are Fiona Apple, Paramour and Regina Spektor - those girls that really write amazing songs themselves, and they're younger and cool. I'm not quite sure I could ever write songs like any of them, but if I could, I would.

Jennifer Damiano

#88. My method is based on female psychology, so it works regardless of your looks or money

Erik Von Markovik

#89. There is a particular whir of agitation about female hunger, a low-level thrumming of shoulds and shouldn'ts and can'ts and wants that can be so chronic and familiar it becomes a kind of feminine Muzak, easy to dismiss, or to tune out altogether, even if you're actively participating in it.

Caroline Knapp

#90. The great news is we have an all-female shortlist with no positive discrimination or anything, isn't that fantastic?

Andrea Leadsom

#91. Driven, damaged and dangerous, FBI agent Mercy Gunderson is one of the best female leads to come down the pike since Eve Dallas. Lori Armstrong delivers the goods with MERCILESS.

Cindy Gerard

#92. Yeah, he's just a huge flirt. He flirted with me, every female reporter within eyeshot, some of the men, and a pot plant on the way into his office. It's pathological.

Ally Blake

#93. A lot of time it is hard to break into the commercial world and that has only to do with money and that has nothing to do with being female or male.

Anne Fletcher

#94. This house has endured three of my Dad's four wives, and so over the last few decades it's been a home-size mood ring, changing to the styles and temperaments of its female inhabitants.

Matthew Norman

#95. So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.

Bayard Taylor

#96. Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

Lara Adrian

#97. I've always said that Adele has turned so many people on to British singers - whether female singers or just like music from this country in general.

Ellie Goulding

#98. Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

Aeschylus

#99. I have never told a lie or modulated my natural voice ... I can't help what people think sounds male or female.

Alice Hastings Bradley

#100. The dragon shifter mating call was a powerful, magical thing that once initiated was impossible to break unless the female denounced her mate.

Julia Mills