Black Quote by Froma Harrop

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knight-odds to and still beat.

— Bobby Fischer

I enjoyed playing someone who is a professional, intelligent, defined by her work and not her role as a wife or mother.

— Miranda Otto

There isn't a woman player in the world I can't give knights-odds to and still beat.

— Bobby Fischer

The very purpose of a knight is to fight on behalf of a lady.

— Thomas Malory

I could give any woman in the world a piece and a move; to Gaprindashvili even, a knight.

— Bobby Fischer

It was really fun to play the woman in charge and in control. She's powerful and she uses the aspects of being a woman.…

— Ruth Wilson

I was certainly never conscious of 'playing the woman.' I would not have approved of that. It is not a winning tactic. I operated…

— Anonymous

“No effort could convince her that women could engage in such activities without loosing their feminity. Games seemed especially unfit for women. ..She was…

— Lynne Withey

I certainly relish the chance to play a woman who didn't have to conform in any way ever to expected behavior or desirable behavior…

— Rosamund Pike

I just feel honored to play Wonder Woman in some incarnation. She's got such history, and she's, like, the first female superhero.

— Cobie Smulders

“Of late she'd become impatient with the inexplicit needs of boys and men and their acting so rashly on what they could not fathom…

— Robert Olmstead

I have found things that I could have done better in 'The Woman Warrior.' But then I thought: Let the work of one's youth…

— Maxine Hong Kingston