Cleaning Quote by Vincent Cassel

I read interviews saying women can bring a femininity to a song, a delicacy, but some women make really aggressive music.

— Shura

When I imagine feminine characters in my songs, they're often bold, strong, passionate, militant, witty, sensual, dangerous. I see those characters as skillful witnesses,…

— Yasmine Hamdan

It's tragic that you can define a whole movement in music by gender alone. People are like, 'Oh, look, another quirky girl.'

— Paloma Faith

It's not often that a woman of color gets to sing material from the golden age or material that was inspired by the time…

— Ariana DeBose

There were musicians that influenced me, but they weren't all women. Teena Marie was a big influence because she wrote and produced her own…

— Queen Latifah

All the great artists of the world slowly slowly start growing a quality of feminineness, grace, elegance, exquisiteness. A certain flavor of softness, relaxedness,…

— Rajneesh

As a woman, you listen to more female singers, like guys listen to more rock bands. So in that way, they influence you because…

— Joan Cusack

There were definitely songs in the past that were me dealing with living this gender dysphoria, and sometimes they were really direct and no…

— Laura Jane Grace

I've a kinship with women. That's why I've always put women in strong positions in music.

— Tricky

I wanted to talk about women artists but I wanted to depart from the biopic dynamic, that trope where a strong woman succeeds in…

— Celine Sciamma

I am an African-American woman of dark skin tone, and there are very specific roles that are usually given to African-American women of a…

— LaChanze

I hear the singing of the lives of women. They clear mystery, the offering, and pride.

— Muriel Rukeyser