She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
When I was growing up, softball had stereotypes along with other female sports. But society is definitely changing since the WNBA and… — Jennie Finch Copy Share Image
Some of this is unavailable to the male-female union: there is more likely to be greater understanding of the need for extramarital… — Andrew Sullivan Copy Share Image
..he continues to cling to the forlorn hope that I will turn into one of those swooning females...and fling myself squeeling at… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My biggest advice to an official who wants to pursue college or come into the NFL is to make sure you're doing… — Sarah Thomas Copy Share Image
I can't imagine writing a book without some strong female characters, unless that was a demand of the setting. I actually tend… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I have no control, of course, over how I'm marketed. It's a sad thing, though, that so many people perceive literature to… — Maggie O'Farrell 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
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You know, Mamet is not a huge writer of female parts. Most of his movies don't even have women in them, so… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
Statistically in the UK, there are so many fewer female composers than male songwriters and they're marketed in a way that -… — Kate Nash Copy Share Image
No woman's getting hired because of her potential. I hope that we can invest more in female potential. — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
The rise to prominence of the Saudi novel in Arabic is the great man-bites-dog of recent world literature. Saudi Arabia is a… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
I really think the range of emotions and perceptions I have had access to as a black person and as a female… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
Mothers and daughters have always exchanged with each other - beyond the verbally transmitted lore of female survival - a knowledge that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page. — Cathy Guisewite Copy Share Image
Madame Bovary is timeless. It is not just about the female condition in France in the 1840s. It's not a simple cautionary… — Sophie Barthes Copy Share Image
On one hand the eternal attraction of man towards femininity (cf. Gn. 2:23) frees in him-or perhaps it should free-a gamut of… — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
I'm really into strong, female roles - but they don't have to necessarily be loud - I'm just as interested in introverts… — Jessica Brown Findlay Copy Share Image
The Black female is assaulted in her tender years by all those common forces of nature at the same time she is… — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier. — Marya Mannes Copy Share Image
It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses. — Rose Byrne Copy Share Image
In order for me to engage in a revolutionary struggle for collective Black self-determination, I have to engage feminism because that becomes… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
For women... bras, panties, bathing suits, and other stereotypical gear are visual reminders of a commercial, idealized feminine image that our real… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway. — Bette Davis Copy Share Image
V rolled the Aquafina bottle between his palms. "How long have you wanted to ask me the question? About the gay thing."… — J.R. Ward 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've always been slightly hesitant about generalizing movies made by men and women being different in their nature; I think movies by… — Susanne Bier Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I'm saying that the depth of exploration of the male psyche and the female psyche is uneven. I see further, deeper renderings… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
“How dare a person tell a woman, how to dress, how to talk, how to behave! Any being who does that, is… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In individual industries where female labour pays an important role, any movement advocating better wages, shorter working hours, etc., would not be… — Clara Zetkin Copy Share Image
We humans are wired for empathy by evolution, but when children grow up in dominator families they internalize this male over female… — Riane Eisler Copy Share Image
Readers understand that the books celebrate female power. In the romance novel, the woman always wins. With courage, intelligence and gentleness she… — Jayne Ann Krentz Copy Share Image
We are permitted to suppose that the relatively small size of the female brain depends in part upon her physical inferiority and… — Paul Broca Copy Share Image
