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• It was just really, really tough getting anything when you were a female. Basically, I just took advantage of everything I could. But when people are going to flat out tell you they're not going to hire anyone that's female, there's not much you can do about it.

  Shannon Lucid

  People, Tough, Advantage

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• Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

  Rachel Simmons

  Silence, Woven, Fabric

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• Lawrence Hill, a cultural and spiritual descendant of West African griots, has used his vast storytelling talents to create an epic story that spans three continents. The Book of Negroes recites the pain, misery and liberation of one African woman, Aminata Diallo, who was stolen from her homeland and sold into American slavery. Through Aminata, Hill narrates the terrifying story of slavery and puts at the centre a female experience of the African Diaspora. I wept upon reading this story. The Book of Negroes is courageous, breathtaking, simply brilliant.

  Afua Cooper

  Spiritual, Pain, Book

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• In light of the strong correlation between female education and demographic decline, a purely empirical perspective on Malala Yousafzai, the poster girl for global female education, may indicate that the Taliban's attempt to silence her was perfectly rational and scientifically justifiable.

  Theodore Beale

  Girl, Strong, Light

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• Shaka Zulu had an all-female force of fighters. Women have been part of every resistance movement. Women dressed as men and went to war, went to sea, and participated actively in combat for as long as there have been people.

  Kameron Hurley

  War, Men, Sea

  Kameron Hurley (2016). “The Geek Feminist Revolution”, p.263, Macmillan

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• Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Males, Sin, Theology

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.211, Random House

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• Certain women because of their female power and seductiveness could bring destruction to a family.

  Margaret Way

  Destruction, Certain, Female Power

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• We know from the book of Genesis that God created men and women 'in His image and likeness.'  We know from the first letter of John that 'God is Love.'  Therefore, men and women are made in the image and likeness of Love.  This isn't hard to see.  Look at the design of the male and female bodies. They are made for each other. In fact, neither one makes complete sense apart from the other.

  Jason Evert

  Book, Men, Design

  Jason Evert (2014). “Theology of His Body / Theology of Her Body (2 Books, 1 Volume): Discovering the Beauty and Mystery of Femininity / Discovering the Strength and Mission of Masculinity”, p.47, Ascension Press

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• I'll pit my God against your god any day, I say to the Calvinists. It's not their god I'm praying to.... The God I'm praying to is neither male nor female. My God is the one who exists apart from all of men's agendas, the God who takes you away when there is no possible place you can go.

  Brunonia Barry

  Men, Males, Agendas

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• SNSD is a group of 9 girl female students. We’re pretty one by one as well,but its when we’re all together that we can really shine.

  Jessica Jung

  Girl, Shining, Together

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• You know, right now, they say - I don't know who says this, but somebody told me - there's three male roles to every female role. And I guess I'd work on evening that up. Making great roles for women. It's just such a huge challenge

  Anna Faris

  Challenges, Males, Three

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• I am indeed willing to acknowledge what I have done, an error and presumption. I will call it an error and presumption because I swerved from the accustomed flowery path of female delicacy, to walk upon the heroic precipice of feminine perdition!

  Deborah Sampson

  Errors, Done, Delicacy

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• I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them.

  Kathy Acker

  Half, Body, Piercings

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• There's only room for one dominant female in the McMahon family... and that's me!

  Stephanie McMahon

  Rooms, Dominant

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• Boys don't make passes at female smart asses.

  Letty Cottin Pogrebin

  Smart, Boys, Ass

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• That's why real awareness always leads you beyond sex, and celibacy happens on its own accord. Because to be in sex you have either to be identified with the male or identified with the female. A real celibate is one who has gone beyond, who is neither.

  Rajneesh

  Sex, Real, Males

  Osho, Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Yoga Rabiya (Ma.), Ananda Vandana (Ma.), Prem Pankaja (Ma.) (1978). “The Discipline of Transcendence: Discourses on the Forty-two Sutras of Buddha”

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• Of the female black authors, I really like Morrison's early books a lot. But she's really become so much a clone of Faulkner. He did it better.

  Leslie Fiedler

  Book, Black

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• There is a great reform required in the education and habits of females.

  Ezra Cornell

  Reform, Habit, Economy

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• Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in the shade of a stricken elephant, had handed around the little gold chocolates while trolls were trying to break into the compound, or had merely stayed at home and nursed such bits of husbands and sons as made it back from endless little wars. The result was a species of woman who, when duty called, turned into solid steel.

  Terry Pratchett

  Husband, War, Home

  "Thud!".

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• Her companion's discourse now sunk from its hitherto animated pitch, to nothing more than a short, decisive sentence of praise or condemnation on the face of every woman they met; and Catherine, after listening and agreeing as long as she could,with all the civility and deference of the youthful female mind, fearful of hazarding an opinion of its own in opposition to that of a self-assured man, especially where the beauty of her own sex is concerned, ventured at length to vary the subject.

  Jane Austen

  Sex, Men, Self

  Jane Austen, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Jane Austen: All novels, short stories, letters and poems”, p.974, GENERAL PRESS

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• Can a selfish egocentric jealous and unimaginative female write a damn thing worthwhile?

  Sylvia Plath

  Jealousy, Selfish, Writing

  Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Frances Monson McCullough (1991). “The journals of Sylvia Plath”

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• The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

  Charles Bukowski

  Betrayal, Males, Damnation

  "Charles Bukowski: Locked in the Arms of a Crazy Life". Book by Howard Sounes, 1998.

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• My male counterpart will get paid ten times more than me - 10 times. Not double, but 10 times for the same job. We only have this much left for the female actress. I mean, there’s two genders on this Earth. Both are compelling, interesting, diverse, wonderful in all their own separate ways. And yet there’s an influx of male roles and there's just not for women.

  Hilary Swank

  Jobs, Mean, Two

  "Hilary Swank on Why Hollywood Still Favors Men and Her 60-Eggs-a-Day Diet for 'Million Dollar Baby'". Hilary Swank's speech to the students at the Loyola Marymount University School of Film & TV in Los Angeles, California, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 12, 2014.

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• 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.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Girl, Legs, Shame

  "We should all be feminists". TED Talks, www.ted.com. December 2012.

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• There are many female gods recognized and honored by the tribes and Nations. Femaleness was highly valued, both respected and feared, and all social institutions reflected this attitude. Even modern sayings, such as the Cheyenne statement that a people is not conquered until the hearts of the women are on the ground, express the Indians understanding that without the power of woman the people will not live, but with it, they will endure and prosper.

  Paula Gunn Allen

  Inspiring, Attitude, Heart

  Paula Gunn Allen (2015). “The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions”, p.172, Open Road Media

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