The Female Brain Quotes

#1. 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

#2. It's hard to negotiate the present landscape with a brain and a female body

Meryl Streep

#3. There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

Gerald Fischbach

#4. This specter of the female politician, who abandons her family to neglect for the sake of passing bills in parliament, is just as complete an illusion of the masculine brain, as the other specter whom Sydney Smith laid by a joke,
the woman who would forsake an infant for a quadratic equation.

Frances Power Cobbe

#5. The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

Marguerite Rawalt

#6. Here I sit like a brainless robot writing the uncensored, chaotic, evil thoughts springing about in my temperamental female brain.

Coco J. Ginger

#7. One can make more enemies as a female with a brain I think.

Bette Davis

#8. As we all know, a fierce female mind is a passion-killer. Men prefer the breast to the brain.

Hannah Mary Rothschild

#9. The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.

Simon Baron-Cohen

#10. Dopamine can be read as the ultimate feminist chemical in the female brain.

Naomi Wolf

#11. Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty years this giant brain spends analyzing women. And he still can't find out what they want. So this makes him the world's greatest expert on female psychology?

Clare Boothe Luce

#12. Female magazines were rubbish
most of them were candy-floss for the brain.

Jess C. Scott

#13. 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

#14. The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

Criss Jami

#15. There is no female mind. The brain is not an organ of sex. As well speak of a female liver.

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

#16. Come here, female. I mention lately how sexy your brain is.

J.R. Ward

#17. Oh yeah, I think about kids all the time. I feel like the next person I commit to, that's going to be the guy who I'm going to have kids with. That's in my crazy female brain. So that's why I'm like, 'I can't commit.'

Amanda Seyfried

#18. 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

#19. There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.

Gerald Fischbach

#20. neuropsychiatrist Louann Brizendine, The Female Brain and The Male Brain, which point out that a man has two and a half times as much brain space devoted to sexual pursuit as a woman, while the female brain's empathy system is considerably more active than the male's.3)

Marilyn Yalom

#21. Girl be blowed!" I snapped. "I'm here as a brain, not as a female.

Alan Bradley

#22. Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

A. N. Wilson