Female Quotes · Page 66

“You are not born to follow the society, you are born to inspire it - you are born to teach it -…

— Abhijit Naskar

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

I don't think I set out to have a career in female groups, but it's just kind of happened, and by nature…

— Emily Robison

Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is…

— Waris Dirie

I've dated some very enthusiastic, attractive people and some very unenthusiastic, less attractive people. I see no correlation. But female friends of…

— Moby

A lot of women read male magazines. Of course, a lot of guys read female magazines, but they've got another issue to…

— Sylvester Stallone

I think that I'm going to be including a lot of anonymous female artists in what I look at and incorporate. Most…

— Laura Owens

I believe in celebrating the female figure and embracing what we've been given, not hiding that.

— Miranda Kerr

“I think if you had been born a boy, perhaps you would have been satisfied with what the world offered you. That…

— Kiersten White

I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting.

— William Gibson

Here the oppression of women is very subtle. If we take female circumcision, the excision of the clitoris, it is done physically…

— Nawal El Saadawi

For women to be supplying the soldiery with banners, flannel shirts and other material comforts was, superficially, all of a piece with…

— Linda Colley

I am Chelsea Manning. I am a female. Given the way that I feel, and have felt since childhood, I want to…

— Chelsea Manning

I’ll leave you guys to get acquainted. Somebody show Leo to dinner when it’s time?” “I got it,” one of the girls…

— Rick Riordan

I have a female colleague who gets annoyed that Tina Fey seems to go out of her way in her movies to…

— David Edelstein

I've always thought of beauty therapy, 'alternative' treatments and the like as the female equivalent of brothels - for essentially self-deceiving people…

— Julie Burchill

Did you hear this big scandal? Eight female badminton players were expelled from the Olympics for trying to lose on purpose. So…

— Conan O'Brien

The big lamas coming from Tibet, Ladakh, India - everywhere - have been very friendly. But I don't figure in their world.…

— Tenzin Palmo

I love writing about men. To get by in the world you have to know how men think. Not that all guys…

— Bonnie Jo Campbell

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

— Myriam Miedzian

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is…

— Angela Carter

The funniest things just come from honesty. We have a tendency to see female characters as representative of something larger than what…

— Elizabeth Meriwether

It doesn’t matter how old you are, what level of schooling you’ve had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female…

— Kristan Higgins

Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together,…

— Virginia Satir

I hope I'm one of many to come in the Dubai World Cup, and hope I see more women making it at…

— Chantal Sutherland

As a woman in Canada, I get to do whatever I want to do, and I'm used to that. I'm used to…

— Deborah Ellis

Contrary to popular belief, a good number of transvestites-both male and female-are also heterosexual. Just because they want to get dressed up…

— Peter McWilliams

If a man is a writer, everybody tiptoes around past the locked door of the breadwinner. But if you're an ordinary female…

— Barbara W. Tuchman

I want to try different genres. I think I'll still be looking at a strong female character in the center, and identity…

— Celine Sciamma

What I really enjoy is when someone who I used to have a crush on, a female from my industry, comes up…

— Rupert Penry-Jones

I don't fully understand my wife's emotions - and I'm supposed to write an excellent female character and unravel the secret of…

— Evan Goldberg

For the several thousands of years before they became firefighters and physicians, women were sirens, enchantresses, snares. At times it seems as…

— Stacy Schiff

The suffering of either sex - of the male who is unable, because of the way in which he was reared, to…

— Margaret Mead

“It's time to shop high heels if your fiance kisses you on the forehead.”

— Amit Kalantri

Most female CEOs have been more understanding than their male counterparts, of the stress that new mothers experience to 'do it all,'…

— Madeleine M. Kunin

I exist in the zine/small press community, which has always felt more even keel to me, when it comes to creators of…

— Liz Prince

So sometime the expectation of the female by a high expectation. Because peoples think that female were weak in term of, like,…

— Yingluck Shinawatra

“It was the hardest boyfriend I ever had to break up with [referring to crystal methamphetamines]”

— Fergie

I don't understand executives that pit women against each other, the fact that they brought in 'Body of Proof,' Dana Delaney is…

— Julianna Margulies

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

— Nina Jacobson