Female Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

The notion of having your muse was not something that was built for women originally. That's not to say women don't have muses. I…

— Abi Morgan

From the world of the muse and writing, there will come, hopefully, the book. You're right, for me, that the muse is always female,…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

My muse can take the form of a landscape, an era, a style of writing, a piece of music, and, perhaps that which I…

— Quentin S. Crisp

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and…

— Quentin S. Crisp

What happens when a female writer invokes a female muse? Does something else happen? With Sappho's figures of desire, we have a different lesbian…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I'm quite drawn to women artists who use themselves in their work. There is a very feminine point of view, the use of female…

— Roisin Murphy

I used to think I was a gay man with this idea of a muse in my head, like a woman that I thought…

— Hari Nef

I'm surrounded by men, and the muse is complaining that I have neglected her.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

I don't want there to always be this stigma of the "female" artist. "Oh, what does it feel like to be a female doing…

— Willow Smith

I use femaleness as another lens, so I don't even think all my creatures are women; I just think that I bring out the…

— Wangechi Mutu

When the sexes differ in beauty, in the power of singing, or in producing what I have called instrumental music, it is almost invariably…

— Charles Darwin

As an artist, I never wanted to be fettered by gender nor recognized or defined as a female poet, musician or singer. They don't…

— Patti Smith