Intensive mothering is the ultimate female Olympics: We are all in powerful competition with each other, in constant danger of being trumped… — Susan J. Douglas Copy Share Image
The first census in 1790 asked just six questions: the name of the head of the household, the number of free white… — Tom G. Palmer Copy Share Image
This is going to sound cliché perhaps, but I would say to not second-guess yourself. It's difficult to talk about because gender… — Julia Loktev Copy Share Image
There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know. But everyone's really different. I've worked with women who I've… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
Not all bodies are born in male or female. There is a continuum of bodies and it seems to me that trying… — Judith Butler Copy Share Image
Because I had some roles that resonated with women, I immediately noticed that there were far more male characters than female characters… — Geena Davis Copy Share Image
“It is important to note that research has shown that men who have abusive mothers do not tend to develop especially negative… — Lundy Bancroft Copy Share Image
Be wary of feeling as through there is not enough room at the table. Oftentimes a female Chinese-American might feel as through… — ZZ Packer Copy Share Image
I think Memento movie was hard because people didn't get it, they just didn't understand it. Not from the stage when we… — Suzanne Todd Copy Share Image
You also said in Rolling Stone that your look is based on mine. The look I chose, I chose on purpose at… — Sinead O'Connor Copy Share Image
There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Women still routinely get passed over when everyone sits around the table and says, "What's our list of 10, 20, 30 directors… — Karyn Kusama Copy Share Image
There was a pause, static, a muttered "Give me that," by an indignant female. Then the normally quiet reserved Ashlyn was demanding,… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
People who would not be using the word gender or thinking about gayness or trans-ness may actually, without even thinking about it,… — Miranda July Copy Share Image
It can be frustrating when you're put in a category with others. Women do get lumped together in this reductive grouping, and… — Felicity Jones Copy Share Image
My husband is always accusing me of being a context-free individual. He asks something and he has no idea where it came… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
There is a thing about beauty. Beauty is always associated with the male fantasy of what the female body is. I don’t… — Jenny Saville Copy Share Image
In 1996, Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' was removed from classrooms after a school board passed a 'prohibition of alternative lifestyle instruction' act. Apparently,… — Richard LaGravenese Copy Share Image
I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago,… — Melissa Rosenberg Copy Share Image
Let's start working towards wellness, a healing in our community, a healing in relationships, so male and female can finally sit down… — Pam Grier Copy Share Image
In the African matrilineal society, the lineage of the bloodline comes down through the female side. The Arabs who invaded East Africa… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
The first female DPs that I was aware of were Ellen Kuras, Mandy Walker, Nancy Schreiber, Amy Vincent, Sandi Sissel, Maryse Alberti… — Rachel Morrison Copy Share Image
I love jeans and T-shirts, but for red carpets, I like Oscar de la Renta, who is timeless. Marchesa celebrates the female… — Serinda Swan 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
Know what Freud wrote in his diary when he was 77? "What do women want? My God, what do they want?" Fifty… — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
The one thing about being a dude and writing from a female perspective is that the baseline is, you suck. The baseline… — Junot Diaz Copy Share Image
I always think that people think that women in music are always angry. I'm not angry. Rock 'n' roll music made by… — Beth Ditto Copy Share Image
Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female.… — Barbara Harbach Copy Share Image
Films with female protagonists don't attract many eyeballs. Most of them are perceived as feminist films. If Bollywood starts giving women major… — Bipasha Basu Copy Share Image
Families and societies are small and large versions of one another. Both are made up of people who have to work together,… — Virginia Satir Copy Share Image
It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by… — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
The Blood She Betrayed is unique, and Shahkara, the character, is one of the most engaging strong female role models I’ve seen… — L. J. Smith Copy Share Image
When I began writing in the mid-1960s, I thought it was not important for readers to know whether I was male or… — E. L. Konigsburg Copy Share Image
Mankind occurs as male or female, as something or nothing. Woman has no share in ontological reality, no relation to the thing-in-itself,… — Otto Weininger Copy Share Image
I don't know if other people have found it difficult relating to me, certainly that's not the feedback I've had. I don't… — Jill Douglas Copy Share Image
I have male friends. I'm the type of girl that always had male friends, more male friends than female friends. So just… — Jessica White Copy Share Image
To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Wolfe scowled at her. I could see he was torn with conflicting emotions. A female in his kitchen was an outrage. A… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
