I grew up in a household of women, they ran the show, they kept it all together. I credit my ability to… — Wally Lamb Copy Share Image
Often, in books, I find female power to be cartoonish - power is a process, an evolution - it has responsibilities. It's… — Deborah Harkness Copy Share Image
I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female… — Lynne Reid Banks Copy Share Image
Hollywood is a very strong machine that needs, and in... especially with female actors, fresh flesh. It's that cruel. But that's the… — Antonio Banderas Copy Share Image
I think behind every great man there's got to be a great woman, whether she's your wife, your girlfriend or not. I'm… — Prince Royce Copy Share Image
The good thing is that women have such high expectations of men that it inspires us to live up to them. That's… — Neil Strauss Copy Share Image
A high degree of intellectual refinement in the female is the surest pledge society can have for the improvement of the male. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
The female psyche is inherently self-sufficient, because female sexuality is inherently self-sufficient. I think women are maybe more comfortable, or women are… — Laura Marling Copy Share Image
One thing the humanitarian world doesn't do well is marketing. As a journalist, I get pitched every day by companies that have… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
As a female, you are often being asked by directors to be warmer, softer, flirt more, smile more etc... None of those… — Trieste Kelly Dunn Copy Share Image
Female Virtues are of a Domestick turn. The Family is the proper Province for Private Women to Shine in. If they must… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
In the United States, it is now possible for a person eighteen years of age, female as well as male, to graduate… — Urie Bronfenbrenner Copy Share Image
Polarity, or action and reaction, we meet in every part of nature; in darkness and light; in heat and cold; in the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Just look at the history of cinema. The most reproduced male character is probably the hero and the most reproduced female character… — Ruben Ostlund Copy Share Image
When you're a soul singer, I'm singing a lot of songs about love and relationships that I think a lot of girls… — Mayer Hawthorne Copy Share Image
On the surface, Wonder Boys seemed like such a departure from L.A. Confidential - it's funny, it's contemporary, and so on -… — Curtis Hanson Copy Share Image
Men need to change their mentality. Talent has nothing to do with gender. If you're making a good film, you should always… — Ankita Lokhande Copy Share Image
The majority of the film industry is, like, obsessed with a ridiculous gender binary and keeping with this stupid social binary. Like,… — Olly Alexander Copy Share Image
The vast majority of women musicians function under singular names like 'Cher' 'Madonna'. They have to get married almost immediately to preserve… — Ayshay Copy Share Image
Freedom is a double-edged ideal, because true freedom comes without the protection of laws that also enslave us by defining us--female, male;… — Ellen Hopkins Copy Share Image
The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they… — Lena Horne Copy Share Image
The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I was of the generation where most of the Disney princesses and female characters were not girls that I admired. They just… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
I definitely relate so much to a lot of women in comedy, but I don't love segregating the genders. I'm just as… — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
Paradoxically, in the field being a woman actually helps you: people often feel more comfortable talking to women, which is key in… — Cosima Spender Copy Share Image
“Erotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.” — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Behold the male beast roaring in the jungle for his mate," said Elphaba. "See how the female beast giggles behind a shrub… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
“The female is, as it were, a mutilated male, and the catamenia are semen, only not pure; for there is only one… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Most of the female-directed films, if they got distribution, would have fewer dollars to support the film and play in fewer theaters… — Catherine Hardwicke Copy Share Image
The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled… — Charles Bukowski Copy Share Image
Other women don't go around saying, 'Wow, I'm female.' They have room in their lives for other things. That's my goal. One… — Andreja Pejic Copy Share Image
If we do not mean that God is male when we use masculine pronouns and imagery, then why should there be any… — Carol P. Christ Copy Share Image
Q: Why are hurricans given female names? A: when they come they come fast and wild; and when they live they take… — Unkown Copy Share Image
I find it impossible to experience either pride or shame over accidents of genetics in which I had no active part. I'm… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and… — Anne Frank Copy Share Image
Well, another female child is born into the world! Last Sunday afternoon, Harriot Eaton Stanton - oh! the little heretic thus to… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
Directors have to come forward and give women a chance to show their potential; they have to create more lady superstars. — Vijayashanti Copy Share Image
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers… — Caleb Carr Copy Share Image
In inquiring concerning the benefits of the plan proposed, I shall proceed upon the supposition that female seminaries will be patronized throughout… — Emma Willard Copy Share Image
