Female Quotes · Page 19

[ Hollywood] is a patriarchy, headed by men and built for men.

— Ava DuVernay

It is fair to say there is a lot of pressure placed on female reporters.

— Kristen Welker

I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

— Paula Cole

Feminists are those who cannot stand female characteristics.

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

I've always idolized Amy Poehler, because I think she's the best of the best as far as female comedy.

— Kristen Bell

With a civilian target, female bombers tend to be more successful and cause more damage.

— Mia Bloom

Behind every beautiful female there's a guy who did her wrong and made her stronger.

— Anonymous

Male and female gossip also sounds different, as women use more animated tones, more detail and more feedback.

— Kate Fox

Years ago I wanted to buy an apartment in New York City. I was a single female - I had gone through…

— Diana Ross

Barbara Castle should have been Labour's - and Britain's - first female prime minister. What a role model she would have been:…

— Patricia Hewitt

In my experience as a director, I think there is obviously something of the way men - maybe that's a common point…

— Abbas Kiarostami

“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling…

— Roman Payne

Male aggression and lust are the energizing factors in culture. They are men's tools of survival in the pagan vastness of female…

— Camille Paglia

All humans need love, attention, and appreciation, and those can be very female traits. I feel like they should be male and…

— Kyra Sedgwick

If combat means living in a ditch, females have biological problems staying in a ditch for 30 days because they get infections...…

— Newt Gingrich

Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I think a lot of writers, male and female, write as if their parents were killed in a car accident when they…

— Mindy Kaling

The brutal soldiers satisfied their sensual appetites without consulting either the inclination or the duties of their female captives; and a nice…

— Edward Gibbon

My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same…

— Hilary Swank

At first, being a female role model really terrified me. But it hasn't turned out to be an awful burden. I get…

— Lucy Lawless

I love jeans and T-shirts, but for red carpets, I like Oscar de la Renta, who is timeless. Marchesa celebrates the female…

— Serinda Swan

The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline…

— Junot Diaz

Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty…

— Clare Boothe Luce

V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing."…

— J.R. Ward

“For my relationships with men to change, I needed to change my relationship to myself as a woman.”

— Gloria Ng

Scratch a female inmate, I've discovered, and you'll usually find a girl whose mother had terrible taste in men.

— Cammie McGovern

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

— Camille Paglia

As much as the female gossip, They do not say half of what in her heart

— Anonymous

There are still so few female directors. There are far fewer writers than we'd like to see.

— Nina Jacobson

Prettiness is not a rent you pay for occupying a space marked 'female'

— Diana Vreeland

Maybe I haven't done enough movies, but haven't found that men are more difficult than women.

— Michelle Pfeiffer

We applaud Congress for extending equitable abortion coverage to female Peace Corps volunteers.

— Cecile Richards

Our female bodies are connected with nature just like a garden.

— Christiane Northrup

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

— Lauren Hutton

Be empowered as a female, as a woman. Don't apologize. Don't lose yourself in another person's life.

— Pepa

We used to have a main female vocalist. But she had a baby. Now we do the singing ourselves.

— Bernie Worrell

People make such a big deal about how people in bands look, especially if you're a girl.

— Juliana Hatfield

We will have to be very vigilant that young female scientists have the same opportunities as their male colleagues.

— Fabiola Gianotti

People should start appreciating films where women are at the centre.

— Manoj Bajpayee

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

— Roy Haylock