Female To Quotes

#1. 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

#2. You are not the first female to strike me, my mate did it often. She grew testy at time.
Like perhaps when you opened your mouth ...

Laurann Dohner

#3. It takes a female to have a baby,
It takes a woman to raise a child,
It takes a mother to raise them correctly,
It takes a warrior to show them how to change the world.

Shannon L. Alder

#4. I was the first South Asian female to do comedy videos on YouTube. But at the same time, all races face their barriers, and I've learned through YouTube, if it's not race, it will be sexism, if it's not sexism, it will be homophobia. It will always be something, and all voices should be heard.

Lilly Singh

#5. Two children - one male, one female - to each family unit. It was written very clearly in the rules.

Lois Lowry

#6. Clinton is the first female to be taken seriously for the highest office in the land. She has the credentials, the stamina and she is a good campaigner. Her detractors in both parties like to say she can't win, but they may be proven wrong.

Helen Thomas

#7. Mack, don't you see how filling roles is the opposite of relationship? We want male and female to be counterparts, face-to-face equals, each unique and different, distinctive in gender but complementary, and each empowered uniquely by Sarayu from whom all true power and authority originates.

Wm. Paul Young

#8. To force a female to do things in male fashion is not equal opportunity, it is distorted idealism.

Gregory Hartley

#9. And so when the essential idea of love is lost there comes talk of fidelity. Actually, the only possible basis for two beings, male and female, to relate to each other is to grant each other total freedom.

Alan Watts

#10. If we end up creating a gameplay structure where it makes sense for, whether it's a female to go rescue a male or a gay man to rescue a lesbian woman or a lesbian woman to rescue a gay man, we might take that approach.

Shigeru Miyamoto

#11. For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

Robert Briffault

#12. 2. God commanded both male and female to have dominion (v. 27). Both men and women have been given the ability and authority to lead. Leadership is not gender specific.

John C. Maxwell

#13. He snagged two more pieces of wood from her load for good measure. "Martise, bearing children is woman's work. Gurn and I would be sitting in the dark every night if we waited for some wandering female to pick up sticks for us.

Grace Draven

#14. My brain I'll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

William Shakespeare

#15. I know that there are many essential biological differences between the sexes, of course. But not so many 'culturally-mandated' differences. In First World countries we've evolved beyond mere biology -it isn't the fate of the human female to be pregnant continously until she wears out and dies.

Joyce Carol Oates

#16. He feared what getting involved with her might mean, but he wanted this deal involving chocolate and would risk lying with something not entirely female to get it.

M. Pax

#17. I wonder, would I have transitioned from female to male if I was 30 years younger? Possibly. But if I had been born even 30 years later, because it seems like the technology will only get better, it seems like one might not ever need to settle down at all.

Eileen Myles

#18. It is a great mistake on the part of elderly ladies, male and female, to tell a child that he is seeing his happiest days. Do not you believe a word of it, my little friend.

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

#19. We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

James E. Faust

#20. Leave it to a female to break your heart.

Jennifer Probst

#21. I have an inviolable rule against employing nepots and spouses, because they breed politics. Whenever two people get married, one of them must depart - preferably the female, to look after the baby.

David Ogilvy

#22. And he wondered just how much teasing she had received - and why human males would train a female to shoot a gun and then tease her into being angry enough to shoot them. "I'm

Anne Bishop

#23. One of the glories of society is to have created woman where Nature had made only a female; to have created a continuity of desire where Nature thought only of perpetuating the species; and, in fine, to have invented love.

Honore De Balzac

#24. For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

Tori Amos

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

Kat Martin

#26. 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

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

Rainbow Rowell

#28. 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

#29. 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

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

Scarlett Thomas

#31. 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

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

Michelle Major

#33. 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

#34. 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

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

Patricia J. Williams

#36. 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

#37. 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

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

Naomi Wolf

#39. 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

#40. 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

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

Habeeb Akande

#42. 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

#43. 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

#44. 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

#45. 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

#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. 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

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

Shelley Winters

#50. 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

#51. 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

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

Donald Symons

#53. 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

#54. 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

#55. 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

#56. 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

#57. 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

#58. 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

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

Charles Dickens

#60. 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

#61. 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

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

Colleen Hoover

#63. 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

#64. 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.

#65. 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

#66. 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

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

Johann G. Seume

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

Nicole Gulla

#69. 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

#70. Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want to be seen as a female in our society, I'm also a drag queen and a performer - there are many levels there.

Alexis Arquette

#71. You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

#72. In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play her - she would be crafty in a clever kind of way.

Billie Piper

#73. I do not scruple to employ mendacity and a fictitious appearance of female incompetence when the occasion demands it.

Elizabeth Peters

#74. The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I've seen in a long time. This girl can handle herself! The plot is full of ingenious twists, turns and surprises, and I look forward to reading the next book in the series.

L.J.Smith

#75. Very learned women are to be found, in the same manner as female warriors; but they are seldom or ever inventors.

Voltaire

#76. I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

Miranda Hart

#77. At the opening of the Odyssey, Telemachus, inspired by the male-born Athena, searches for his father by turning against his mother. Jesus too publicly spurns his mother to be about his father's business. Male adulthood begins with the breaking of female chains.?

Camille Paglia

#78. It was the reward of the loyal female disciples who had accompanied Jesus to the place of crucifixion and stayed with him through the horror of his execution, to be entrusted by him with the most powerful message that has ever impacted the world: 'He is risen.

Gilbert Bilezikian

#79. Staring down at his button fly, he tried to find another explanation. Maybe he'd thrown a clot? A cock clot ... or maybe ... shit ... There was no way he could be attracted to another female.

J.R. Ward

#80. 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.

Sally Potter

#81. I always try so hard to find a male doll and shoot a male doll, and it always kind of implodes. Whenever I use men, they're so scary and so dark, and I can never find this sort of lightness or this place between doll and human that I find with female dolls.

Laurie Simmons

#82. I'm definitely very interested in doing female narrators that aren't typically feminine or emotional or soft - especially teenage girls - because I have such a hard time relating to so many of them that I read. They feel psychologically cuter to me than I ever was.

Andrea Seigel

#83. In becoming archaeologists of the world of our mothers, we are trying to retrieve the female past and to invent a future.

Louise Bernikow

#84. One of the greatest gifts of Black feminism to ourselves has been to make it a little easier simply to be Black and female.

Barbara Smith

#85. A brown trout sips one off the surface. Beneath the trout, mica-flecked sand gleams white. Come fall the female's caudal fin will nudge the grains to make a nest, the eggs spilling like pearls into a purse.

Ron Rash

#86. A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to deal with. But a lot of women read men's magazines and think, 'Oh, this is what these guys are thinking? Studying up on the enemy here.'

Sylvester Stallone

#87. The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

Camille Paglia

#88. The phlegamtic female is a weepy, bug-eyed, fat, lumpy, fleshy German. She looks like a sack of flour. She is born in order to become a mother-in-law. That is her whole ambition.

Anton Chekhov

#89. How do we represent female pain without producing a culture in which this pain has been fetishized to the point of fantasy or imperative?

Leslie Jamison

#90. I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don't know if I'll live that long.

Meryl Streep

#91. Anyone who believes we're living in a postfeminist age will learn that violence against females - from female infanticide and child marriage to honor killings and sex trafficking - has now produced a world with fewer females than males, a first in recorded history.

Gloria Steinem

#92. Prior to Schneemann, the female body in art was mute and functioned almost exclusively as a mirror of masculine desire.

Jan Avgikos

#93. James II's second wife, an Italian Catholic princess called Mary (at the time, there was an edict whereby all female royals were to be called Mary to confuse future readers of history books),

Stephen Clarke

#94. Female hysteria is a subject I'm very fond of. I always try to bring it in somewhere. For me, it is the finest part of the line between comedy and tragedy.

Rachel Cusk

#95. Male authors always take care to make their heroes at least one inch taller than they are, and considerably more muscular. Just as female authors give their heroines better hair and slimmer thighs.

Lee Child

#96. Recently we've been hearing a lot about women "having it all." Myself, I think that is not really an accurate description of female lives today. It seems to me that what we have been up to is DOING it all.

Sylvia Ann Hewlett

#97. Female artists are the perfect example of a creator: They know how to make life and art with their bodies. Life comes from their bodies, so on a very basic level, they have more to write about.

Brandon Boyd

#98. Because I didn't have any queer, lesbian, female role models I hated my own femininity and had to look deep within myself to create an identity that worked for me. Pop culture just doesn't hand us enough variety to choose from.

Beth Ditto

#99. We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and in part upon her intellectual inferiority.

Paul Broca

#100. On Writing About Nora Hawks
I write about a female character to try, in vain, to understand two things: the purpose of life, and women.

Dennis R. Miller