I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I… — Celia Imrie Copy Share Image
Corporate engineers have looked at how women are with each other, borrowing the best tips from female neighborhood culture and then transporting… — Arlie Russell Hochschild Copy Share Image
Title IX is huge for sports but also its helped move our nation to a place where we can accept women in… — Maya Moore Copy Share Image
Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
Female genital mutilation targets little girls, baby girls - fragile angels who are helpless, who cannot fight back. It's a crime against… — Waris Dirie Copy Share Image
There's no shortage of female role models. They're everywhere - in history, in literature, in the news. Just look around. — Keri Russell Copy Share Image
This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
There are still people who have an issue working with a woman director. Women can be viewed as 'difficult' even though they… — Lucy Walker Copy Share Image
I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Television is also a great tool for women. As you know, the best female roles are often on television, so it's a… — Diane Kruger Copy Share Image
Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Bluebell,” she said, remembering from Erotique. “Pretty name.” “I call Dmitri Dark Overlord.” “Shae,” Dmitri said and the female vampire rose at… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
No wonder male religious leaders so often say that humans were born in sin—because we were born to female creatures. Only by… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
From a biological viewpoint, patriarchal religion denied women the natural rights of every other mammalian female: the right to choose her stud,… — Barbara G. Walker Copy Share Image
Any movie you see, if Tom Cruise is in an action movie or whatever it is, The Avengers, there's going to be… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
Rise above the way society is going to see you and society is going to see you at the absolutely bottom of… — Audra McDonald Copy Share Image
Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Before novels written by women were relegated to their own 'genre,' I was introduced to Jane Smiley by a dear professor who… — Emma McLaughlin Copy Share Image
I believe love - and its feminine, though not necessarily female, counterpart, romance, is a private thing. It's something I'm not willing… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
I'm getting more and more used to the fact that being a director and being a woman are two things that everyone… — Marielle Heller Copy Share Image
Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
When you see that 76 percent of teachers are female, I think you have to acknowledge that there's a cultural bias, and… — Dana Goldstein Copy Share Image
I hope one day people don't look at women like they're out of their minds when they want to pick up an… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I would play… — Billie Piper Copy Share Image
A female's career as an actor is very different from a male's career as an actor. That's just the way it is.… — Abbie Cornish Copy Share Image
Standardized personality differences between the sexes are of this order, cultural creations to which each generation, male and female, is trained to… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Some of the most powerful female performers I've seen balance the feminine and the masculine and are incredibly strong. Like, I think… — Lauren Mayberry Copy Share Image
It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's… — Orianthi Copy Share Image
Women, on average, earn less than men in almost every occupation, including traditional female orientated jobs like nursing and teaching. — Sander Levin Copy Share Image
I always thought that putting tons of reverb on my voice was kind of the equivalent of airbrushing. And I wanted other… — Kathleen Hanna Copy Share Image
Why does it take girls so long to shower?” he demanded. “Mortal girls, Shadowhunters, female warlocks, you‘re all the same. I‘m not… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Art is to be admired rather than explained. The jargon of these sculptors is beyond me. I do not precisely know why… — Ezra Pound Copy Share Image
My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
[On gender-rating by insurance companies:] They say the reason they get to charge more is we have children. I would say having… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
I thought about ["Summer Sisters" ] so often as I was writing about these female characters who love each other and hated… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
What's so great about playing a female lead, especially in law enforcement, is that these women do exist, and they're really quite… — Emily Rose Copy Share Image
I'm the female Simon Cowell. He said I'm the scariest woman he's ever met. I asked him why he never dated me,… — Janice Dickinson Copy Share Image
What's important is to have more women creators behind the scenes, being producers and being in charge. That will ultimately help push… — Phoebe Robinson Copy Share Image
Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave… — Maryse Alberti Copy Share Image