Female Quotes

1624 Female quotes by 1137 unique authors

I'm listening to a lot of Katy Perry, Taylor Swift, and Rihanna. A lot of pop female artists. I have to say I'm pretty well-versed… — Steve Carell
I hate organized religion. I think you have to love thy neighbor as thyself. I think you have to pick your own God and be… — Julia Child
The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl. — Shirley Chisholm
The simplest and most basic meaning of the symbol of the Goddess is the acknowledgment of the legitimacy of female power as a beneficent and… — Carol P. Christ
I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists. — Sandra Cisneros
I was not supposed to be in any way a liberated person. I was a female born in the '40s in a patriarchal family; I… — Isabel Allende
For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun. — Tori Amos
The fact that the adult American Negro female emerges a formidable character is often met with amazement, distaste and even belligerance. It is seldom accepted… — Maya Angelou
Women have a thirst for order and beauty as for something physical; there is a strange female power of hating ugliness and waste as good… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What makes a kingdom great is its being like a down-flowing river,--the central point towards which all the smaller streams under Heaven converge; or like… — Laozi
On consideration, it is not surprising that Darwin's finches should recognize their own kind primarily by beak characters. The beak is the only prominent specific… — David Lack
The Holy Koran tells us, 'O mankind! We have created you male and a female; and we have made you into nations and tribes so… — Barack Obama
People are disturbed enough by serial killers, but the whole notion of female violence, particularly maternal violence - the idea of mothers who kill -… — Caleb Carr
Our struggle today is not to have a female Einstein get appointed as an assistant professor. It is for a woman schlemiel to get as… — Bella Abzug
Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the… — Audre Lorde
Even when educators survey grade school texts and create new bibliographies to help teachers include Asians, Eskimos, and other Americans, females in and out of… — Gloria Steinem
The more legal and material hindrances women have broken through, the more strictly and heavily and cruelly images of female beauty have come to weigh… — Naomi Wolf
We put limitations on the way that we think about things, on ourselves, think about all the boxes we live in, male or female, you're… — Brit Marling
female education ... has occupied my attention so far only as the education of my own daughters ... I thought it essential to give them… — Thomas Jefferson
Biologically speaking, if something bites you it's more likely to be female. — Desmond Morris
I can beat anyone, either male, female, animal, vegitable, or mineral. — Jim Cornette
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'… — Alistair Cooke
There are female dandies as well as clothes-wearing men; and the former are as objectionable as the latter. — Thomas Carlyle
Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The… — Ambrose Bierce

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