Female Quotes · Page 28

I love country, folk, and strong female voices, like Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, PJ Harvey, and Kate Bush.

— Alex Winston

You are not male nor female, but a plan deep-set within the heart of man.

— Marianne Moore

I have always fought against being gender specific. I just don't like being identified as female: I'm a person.

— Toyah Willcox

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

— Cassandra Clare

To me, hip hop will never be right until female rappers have a stronger voice in it.

— Queen Latifah

I'm supportive of anyone, male or female, feeling good about themselves.

— Brooke Elliott

He looks like a female llama who has been surprised in the bath.

— Winston Churchill

“Arise my Sister! Awake my Sister! Start walking in the path of building your own identity!”

— Abhijit Naskar

If I see a chick playing guitar, I'm drawn to that band immediately. I want to know everything, even if it's completely…

— Courtney Love

We're showing kids a world that is very scantily populated with women and female characters. They should see female characters taking up…

— Geena Davis

“She was born poor and powerless in a land where power is money and money is adored. Born black in a land…

— Maya Angelou

My books are based on emotions, feelings, relationships. In these areas women are experts, so it's not strange that the main characters…

— Isabel Allende

I'd say I got three or four offers for films that had female directors, so in my career I haven't had that…

— Natalie Portman

Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but…

— Rita Mae Brown

“She was not only a female, but a damned beautiful one.A gentleman would have turned away the moment her realized what was…

— Cecelia Mecca

It's fantastic that Congress has an increasing number of women. Experts call an increasingly female presence in a previously male space 'the…

— Craig Ferguson

Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to…

— Virginia Satir

We need more female directors, we also need men to step up and identify with female characters and stories about women. We…

— Geena Davis

Sex work may be an illegal thing, but it's far from being a bad thing. Quite a few of us on the…

— Kate Bornstein

I understand why some women/girls/ladies don't want to be women-identified 'cuz it totally complicates your band identity and no one seems to…

— Tobi Vail

I was raised primarily by women. I had a mother who almost killed herself to survive, I had a sister who was…

— James L. Brooks

The Tao gives birth to One. One gives birth to Two. Two gives birth to Three. Three gives birth to all things.…

— Laozi

There are some really amazing artists and people behind the scenes who are really effective in championing feminism in the music industry,…

— Charli XCX

You can point to a lot of women showrunners that have had long and successful careers. In terms of the kinds of…

— Callie Khouri

I model as male, female, and everything in between. I model as all genders.

— Rain Dove

It's not often you get female characters who don't fit into a box.

— Rebecca Hall

There shall be no slave in your home, male or female: Least of all the mother of your son.

— Franz Grillparzer

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

— Natalie Portman

Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?

— Don Whillans

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature."

— Kate Zambreno

I wouldn't go so far as to say I am a feminist, that can come off as a negative connotation. But I…

— Carrie Underwood

The essence of life is the smile of round female bottoms, under the shadow of cosmic boredom.

— Guy de Maupassant

You always hear how female artists don't get along, how they hate each other - but that hasn't been my experience.

— Sevyn Streeter

There are a lot of duets happening, but very few songs which are sung by only one woman.

— Neha Bhasin

In BMX, you need an inner mongrel, something that's a point of difference in the female category.

— Caroline Buchanan

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

— Anne Sexton

Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.

— Ava DuVernay

I love female-driven drama, and those kinds of characters. I really love complex women.

— Anna Silk

There were male colleges, and there were very few female colleges.

— Maggie Smith

“You crawled inside my ribs to die. Giant becomes squirrel becomes a dirt-wet girl feverishly alive.”

— Virginia Petrucci