Female Quote by Anne Carson

“Madness, not just physical abuse, was the punishment for too much talk if you were female. Yet even as this fear of madness haunted…

— Bell Hooks

Women are often told to have to be a certain way, to speak a certain way. The "norm" has been defined for many, many…

— Priyanka Chopra

A voice can also repel, infuriate or actually make a listener ill.

— Johnny Olson

Why do gentlemen's voices carry so clearly, when women's are so easily stifled?

— Sarah Waters

There's something very sinister about a woman who is predatory but has an absurd voice working as a disservice to her.

— Claudia Black

My family was always wondering why I ended up playing people who were mentally ill, insane, downtrodden, and a little crazy. I think what…

— Carrie Coon

We have for too long been taught that the sight of a man speaking to himself is a sign of eccentricity or madness; we…

— Teju Cole

“Not only is the actual word "hysteria" gendered — it once referred to an exclusively female disease, a mental illness thought to be caused…

— Sady Doyle

“A woman’s voice is considered a sexual provocation (kol be-ishah ervah), so that a woman may not read or recite before men.”

— Rachel Biale

“Don't you find it odd that two of the foremost symptoms of insanity are the hearing voices and talking to oneself? Is it any…

— Mort W. Lumsden

Madness is rare in individuals, but in groups, parties, nations and ages is it the rule

— Friedrich Nietzsche

The fear of public speaking is a primal fear. You can train your body to not be crazy when you're doing it, but it…

— Neal Brennan