Female Quotes · Page 21

There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter.

— Thomas Carlyle

How you look has become ridiculously disproportionate to what you do. Critics are more harsh on female presenters.

— Carol Vorderman

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

— Sheryl Sandberg

While complex acting roles are lacking for actresses, what's even more rare are female directors.

— Phoebe Robinson

That which commands admiration in the white woman only hastens the degradation of the female slave.

— Patricia Hill Collins

I'm attracted to strong female roles: females that aren't necessarily defined by their relationships with men.

— Shari Sebbens

The members of the court were just delighted to have a ninth member - male or female. They were all kind and…

— Sandra Day O'Connor

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

— Susan Faludi

My mom is an art teacher and is very much into the performing arts. What can I say? She is the female…

— Erin Andrews

Female directors, directors of color are a big thing for me, which are both important voices and potent voices that need to…

— David Oyelowo

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone…

— Siouxsie Sioux

Female empowerment really is important to me. I'm a big nerd of the books from the 15th Century and 16th Century, when…

— Ariel Winter

A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very…

— Victoria Wood

The females don't respect themselves; they only think materialistically. They want money, but they don't think, I'm gonna get this money on…

— Queen Latifah

A woman director is not obliged to make a feminist film. She can make what she wants, a thriller, an action film,…

— Shabana Azmi

Yes, I am transgendered but I also am a cross-dresser - I dress as a woman. It's not that I just want…

— Alexis Arquette

As conscious adult women, we need to instill a different value system. Actually, it is an innate value system. We need to…

— Kamala Lopez

I don't like every other musician's work. The same way that filmmakers don't like every other filmmakers' work. Just because I'm a…

— Kathleen Hanna

Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns,…

— Erica Jong

I know it's trash: just another story made up to scare wicked females and correct unruly children. But it's all I have.…

— Toni Morrison

Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they…

— Stacy Schiff

“Truth is, there comes a time when turning a new page in your life is the most liberating and empowering feeling you…

— Emma Mildon

Aggressive and hard-charging women violate unwritten rules about acceptable social conduct. Men are continually applauded for being ambitious and powerful and successful,…

— Sheryl Sandberg

I was sent this thing called 10 Things I Hate About You, which I thought was really sweet and female-centric and kind…

— David Krumholtz

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

— Myriam Miedzian

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.

— V. E. Schwab

Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex.

— Karl Marx

Male, female, it doesn't matter. All I see when I look across the ring is an opponent.

— Beth Phoenix

I'm a female but I have a masculine side and I'm not going to negate that part of myself.

— Annie Lennox

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

— Valerie Solanas

It was the first female-style revolution: no violence and we all went shopping.

— Gloria Steinem

I'm not sure why my muse is female, except when I am deliberately playing against that figure.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Christianity gave eroticism its savor of sin and legend when it endowed the human female with a soul.

— Simone de Beauvoir

To make a good film is an art. Gender is irrelevant when it comes to craft of filmmaking.

— Zoya Akhtar

We were called, male and female, to do great works with separate approaches and separate assignments.

— James E. Faust

It is wrong if how we see women on TV is largely determined by male directors.

— Lenny Henry

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

— Tori Amos

The average full-time working male works more than a full-time working female.

— Warren Farrell

“No, I have no desire to be a feminist, I just want to be a female,”

— Gyula Krúdy

My whole life I've never felt, as a female, I was up to scratch.

— Shirley Ballas