Female Quotes · Page 17

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

— Christine de Pizan

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love…

— Lauryn Hill

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

— Louise Bernikow

There's a lot of young females doing R&B in England who are extremely talented and deserve more light on their stories.

— Ella Mai

“Female magazines were rubbish--most of them were candy-floss for the brain.”

— Jess C. Scott

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

— Vera Farmiga

“Who says there have been no female prophet on earth, what about your mother.”

— M.F. Moonzajer

Even if there are a lot women in films, there are few who are lesbians, that people know about.

— Catherine Deneuve

“Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid,... thou female tongue-running, smile-smoothing, heart-opening, wind-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe…

— Colley Cibber

Publishers are in business to make money, and if your books do well they don't care if you are male, female, or…

— Margaret Atwood

Male and female represent the two sides of the great radical dualism. But in fact they are perpetually passing into one another.…

— Margaret Fuller

I have been lucky in getting a lot of the projects I've wanted, maybe because I'm really, really driven. But there is…

— Reed Morano

The music industry is dominated by guys. I work with men 98 percent of the time - producers, arrangers, musicians, engineers.

— Shakira

I only really understand myself, what I'm really thinking and feelings, when I've talked it over with my circle of female friends.…

— Anna Quindlen

Sometime female characters, especially in the genre of something that people consider rom-com, make mistakes in a cute way or they're a…

— Greta Gerwig

Sometimes I try to sell shows with a female lead to networks, and that isn't something that's been a proven formula for…

— Kristen Schaal

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

— Callie Khouri

We must never allow demagogues to divide us up by race, by religion, by national origin, by gender, or sexual orientation. Black…

— Bernie Sanders

Man...heats up like a lightbulb: red hot in the twinkling of an eye and cold again in a flash. The female, on…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafon

...black women write differently from white women. This is the most marked difference of all those combinations of black and white, male…

— Toni Morrison

A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally,…

— Charlotte Bronte

Most of us, I believe, admire strength. It's something we tend to respect in others, desire for ourselves, and wish for our…

— Fred Rogers

Should or can there be a single standard of behavior for both sexes? Is there such a thing as a biologically rooted…

— Phyllis Chesler

Childbearing is the most consistent of human events. Male and female alike, we have all been gestated inside a woman's body. As…

— Joan Raphael-Leff

Shave off your beard and wear a dress. You would be a great female impersonator.

— Simon Cowell

Sometimes I don't think that I'm the most relatable female artist.

— Tones and I

People have made me so big now, which I never thought I can be as a female singer.

— Neha Kakkar

I say that male and female are cast in the same mold; except for education and habits, the difference is not great.

— Michel de Montaigne

The hamadryas baboon is a harem holder where one male mates with multiple females.

— Frans de Waal

No man of any intelligence would pretend to know a female mind.

— Julia Quinn

Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.

— Roger Daltrey

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat.

— Don Marquis

I think all industries are sexist in nature and I don't think the film industry is any different.

— Christine Lahti

Art itself is female - it is full of graciousness, cadence, color, rhythm. It's full of love and grace.

— Juan Gabriel

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

— Pipilotti Rist

How can women be in the image of God if God cannot be imaged in female form?

— Anonymous

It's not odd to be a female in a band anymore. It's not odd to be a girl carrying a guitar case…

— Nita Strauss

The strangest thing [to sign] has to be parts of [fan's] anatomy. But mostly female.

— Henry Winkler

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

— Christian Dior

I'm not sure that it's easy to find very interesting female characters in Hollywood movies.

— Audrey Tautou