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Female Quotes by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- About 52% of the world's population is female. But most of the positions of power and prestige are occupied by men. The late Kenyan Nobel…
- We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
- Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is…
- We teach girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. We say to girls: 'You can have ambition, but not too much. You should aim…
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- If I were going to convert to any religion I would probably choose Catholicism because it at least has female saints and… — Margaret Atwood
- The ballet is a purely female thing; it is a woman, a garden of beautiful flowers, and man is the gardener. — George Balanchine
- 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
- I have a man and a woman in the same body; I have the male and female values in the same body. — Javier Bardem
- Why have I been chosen to deliver the message of female intelligence and its divinity to a deaf world of males? I… — Roseanne Barr
- It is a well-documented fact that guys will not ask for directions. This is a biological thing. This is why it takes… — Dave Barry
- Man is defined as a human being and a woman as a female - whenever she behaves as a human being she… — Simone de Beauvoir
- I find the female tragedy of insecurity to be hilarious. We get obsessed over issues like the tiny skin tags on our… — Lake Bell
- Sometimes it's more difficult to exist as a female lead, especially in action movies because all those men are around you. They… — Monica Bellucci
- Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity… — Ambrose Bierce
- It's incredible how nature sets females up to take care of people, and yet it is tricky for them to take care… — Bjork
- Usually when you see females in movies, they feel like they have these metallic structures around them, they are caged in by… — Bjork