Best Female Words
1624 Female quotes by 1137 unique authors
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The feminist anti-pornography movement, no less than the feminist movement of a century ago, encourages the assumption that male and female sexuality, and possibly morality,…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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Music is the key to the female heart.
— Johann Gottfried Seume
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It is the movement between the negative and positive poles that creates electricity. It is the attraction between the male and the female that creates…
— Margot Anand
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As Darwin puts it in The Descent of Man, 'Male snakes, though appearing so sluggish, are amorous.' Isn't that just like Darwin? It was one…
— Will Cuppy
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We're trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those categories when they actually don't fit neatly at all. But if…
— Minnie Bruce Pratt
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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 a group of…
— J. J. Abrams
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If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if…
— Simone de Beauvoir
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The primordial model of the family is to be sought in God himself, in the Trinitarian mystery of his life. The divine "We" is the…
— Pope John Paul II
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I must confess that I've never trusted the Web. I've always seen it as a coward's tool. Where does it live? How do you hold…
— Stephen Colbert
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Romantic love, in pornography as in life, is the mythic celebration of female negation. For a woman, love is defined as her willingness to submit…
— Andrea Dworkin
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Growing up female in America. What a liability! You grew up with your ears full of cosmetic ads, love songs, advice columns, whoreoscopes, Hollywood gossip,…
— Erica Jong
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The being who, for most men, is the source of the most lively, and even, be it said, to the shame of philosophical delights, the…
— Charles Baudelaire
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So it is naturally with the male and the female; the one is superior, the other inferior; the one governs, the other is governed; and…
— Aristotle
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If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe…
— Wilhelm von Humboldt
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Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.
— Herman Boerhaave
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If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a…
— Aristotle
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...The goal of abolishing the white race is on its face so desirable that some may find it hard to believe that it could incur…
— Noel Ignatiev
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A young lady is a female child who has just done something dreadful.
— Judith Martin
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Instead of wishing to see more doctors made by women joining what there are, I wish to see as few doctors, either male or female,…
— Florence Nightingale
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The elephant, not only the largest but the most intelligent of animals, provides us with an excellent example. It is faithful and tenderly loving to…
— Saint Francis de Sales
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In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend.…
— August Strindberg
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The will to domination is a ravenous beast. There are never enough warm bodies to satiate its monstrous hunger. Once alive, this beast grows and…
— Andrea Dworkin
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I don't like being under someone elses thumb. I'm very supportive of other female artists, especially those trying to make their own statement... trying to…
— Irene Cara
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The female brain is predominantly hard-wired for empathy. The male brain is predominantly hard-wired for understanding and building systems.
— Simon Baron-Cohen
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At what point must a female senator raise her hand or her voice to be recognized over her male colleagues?
— Unknown Author
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