Female Quotes · Page 15

I'm really happy to be on the cover as a strong female who has created her own career.

— Katy Perry

It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

— Lisa Gardner

Male? Female? It's not always relevant to some people. They are who they are - they might not fit into a specific…

— Maxine Peake

African-American women account for 67 percent of all newly diagnosed female AIDS cases.

— Elijah Cummings

I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

— Elizabeth Hand

I'm for human lib, the liberation of all people, not just black people or female people or gay people.

— Richard Pryor

I think it's great that you have inspirational female roles, that it's not just the pretty girl on the arm of a…

— Hannah John-Kamen

Films made by women belong to the history of cinema; it's just that we get erased pretty quickly.

— Celine Sciamma

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

— David Brinkley

The female mind is certainly a devious one, my lord." Vetinari looked at his secretary in surprise. "Well, of course it is.…

— Terry Pratchett

For a female artist, it takes a lot more to be taken seriously if you're not sat down at a piano or…

— Dua Lipa

I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a…

— Christine Lagarde

We, who have had tender, perfect mothers, would like to make it law that the other kind should always be called 'she-parents,'…

— Florence L. Barclay

The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the…

— Carolyn Custis James

Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond…

— Cara Castronuova

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female.…

— Zoe Saldana

The center of life is female - we all come from our mothers. I've always drawn women or female spirits. I feel…

— Vali Myers

I feel like directing is more about who the individual is rather than if they're a man or a woman. It's kind…

— Reed Morano

In our male-oriented God phase, it's always about conquering and control of life and death. This power leads to a kind of…

— Andre Alexis

Most people view female directors as female only, that we only deal with women's issues and women characters. Although most of my…

— Shahad Ameen

According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent…

— William S. Burroughs

“When the Himalayan peasant meets the he-bear in his pride, he shouts to scare the monster who will often turn aside, but…

— Rudyard Kipling

I think the Internet really sussed things into perspective. Because twelve years ago, I could spend my days on writing and running…

— Amanda Palmer

I think that we're in a really amazing time, where there are really a lot of really fantastic female actresses and comedians.…

— Whitney Cummings

I haven't spent years, like Alyse Nelson of Vital Voices, toiling for female economic empowerment on five continents.

— Tina Brown

Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.

— Alfred Kinsey

The female always surpasses the male with stillness. In her stillness she is yielding.

— Laozi

“Lord help the female population if Kellan and I have a boy one day.”

— S.C. Stephens

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

— Sean Kinney

“Female Viagra has been around for years...it's called money.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

“Any book that spreads weakness in the heart of one gender, and authoritarianism in the other, must be burnt to ashes.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“In the end, I suspect, being female will do nothing for Sheba, except deny her the grandeur of genuine villainy.”

— Zoë Heller

Ain't but one kind of blues and that consists of a male and female that's in love.

— Son House

As far as women directors in India go, I think we should have more of them.

— Konkona Sen Sharma

Once a female, always a female. Nature is not always infallible but she always abides by her mistakes.

— Hector Hugh Munro

The female characters in 'Peep Show' are not 'strong': they are idiots. As idiotic as the men.

— Robert Webb

I've met real female NCIS agents who were smaller than I am. They were very petite.

— Daniela Ruah

I like strong female characters. I try to write them as role models for young girls.

— L. J. Smith

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

— Vestal McIntyre

It is very hard because there are not a lot of female driven scripts.

— Kristin Davis