Female Quote by Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology. They're wrong. In…

— Kathleen Tessaro

“Madame smiled indulgently. ‘Most people assume that a muse is a creature of perfect beauty, poise and grace. Like the creatures from Greek mythology.…

— Kathleen Tessaro

When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art…

— Jackie DeShannon

I’m only able to write poetry, for the most part, when I have a Muse, a woman who focuses the world for me.

— May Sarton

There is still a great deal of self-hatred that we refuse to deal with because we are still measuring ourselves against the norms of…

— Tituss Burgess

There's a lot of healing that needs to happen between the LGBT community and the cisgender heterosexual world. There's a ton of misunderstanding.

— Carmen Carrera

Black and Third World people are expected to educate white people as to our humanity. Women are expected to educate men. Lesbians and gay…

— Audre Lorde

“Fifteen years to make Muse the woman. A few hours with Damien to unmake me.”

— Pippa DaCosta

As I grew older - and even when I was younger - it had puzzled me why I continued and continue to be heterosexual.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

Some Asian American male scholars have claimed this muse to be Guong Goong, God of Literature, and, simultaneously, although not coincidentally or triflingly, God…

— Shirley Geok-lin Lim

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