Female Quotes - Page 19

• What if more women, mothers, gave birth as an ecstatic celebration of female sexuality? Mothers who do will often declare, "Now I can do anything!" What would the world look like if half of our population felt empowered to make a difference with their lives?

  Jeannine Parvati Baker

  Mother, Differences, Empowerment

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• What I see is not a world of male oppression and female victimization, but an internation conspiracy by women to keep from men the knowledge of men's own frailty. A strange maternal protectiveness is at work.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Males, World

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Vamps & Tramps: New Essays”, p.47, Vintage

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• The female body is a chthonian machine, indifferent to the spirit who inhabits it.

  Camille Paglia

  Machines, Body, Spirit

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.37, Canongate Books

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• The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

  Camille Paglia

  Lasts, Worship, Western

  Camille Paglia (2018). “Free Women, Free Men: Sex, Gender, Feminism”, p.34, Canongate Books

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• Serial or sex murder, like fetishism, is a perversion of male intelligence. It is a criminal abstraction, masculine in its deranged egotism and orderliness. It is the asocial equivalent of philosophy, mathematics, and music. There is no female Mozart because there is no female Jack the Ripper.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Philosophy, Males

  Sexual Personae ch. 8 (1990)

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• Generally speaking, historically in this country, the care of a child has been thought of as female business.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Country, Children, Careers

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• LAP, n. One of the most important organs of the female system - an admirable provision of nature for the repose of infancy, but chiefly useful in rural festivities to support plates of cold chicken and heads of adult males.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Nature, Support, Important

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.68, Courier Corporation

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• Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

  Sheryl Sandberg

  Leader, Needs, Including

  Sheryl Sandberg (2014). “Lean In for Graduates”, p.59, Knopf

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• I've read that male dolphins try to have sex with humans, and female apes solicit sex from humans. What is wrong with giving them what they want, if that's what turns you on, or even just to gratify them?

  Richard Stallman

  Sex, Giving, Trying

  "Extreme Pornography Law in the UK". Personal Website, stallman.org. February 19, 2010.

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• I was gravely warned by some of my female acquaintances that no woman could expect to be regarded as a lady after she had written a book.

  Lydia M. Child

  Book, Acquaintance, Written

  "Concerning Women". Independent, October 21, 1869.

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• Through her paintings, she breaks all the taboos of the woman's body and of female sexuality.

  Diego Rivera

  Artist, Body, Painting

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• And we reduce almost all male-female problems by working on both the female and the male. And that usually means having both sexes take responsibility.

  Warren Farrell

  Sex, Mean, Responsibility

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• The erotic is a resource within each of us that lies in a deeply female and spiritual plane, firmly rooted in the power of our unexpressed or unrecognized feeling. . . .

  Audre Lorde

  Spiritual, Lying, Erotic

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.53, Crossing Press

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• Nothing can ever overcome that one enormous sex (female) superiority that even the male child is born closer to his mother than to his father.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Mother, Sex, Children

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• May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

  George Washington

  August, Males, Too Late

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• Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

  Joseph Lancaster

  School, Might, Lists

  Joseph Lancaster (1807). “Improvements in Education, as it Respects the Industrious Classes of the Community: Containing Among Other Important Particulars, an Account of the Institution for the Education of One Thousand Poor Children, Borough Road, Southwark; and of the New System of Education on which it is Conducted”, p.153

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• What vexes me most is, that my female friends, who could bear me very well a dozen years ago, have now forsaken me, although I am not so old in proportion to them as I formerly was: which I can prove by arithmetic, for then I was double their age, which now I am not. Letter to Alexander Pope. 7 Feb. 1736.

  Jonathan Swift

  Friendship, Years, Age

  Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1843). “The Works of Jonathan Swift ...: Containing Interesting and Valuable Papers, Not Hitherto Published ... With Memoir of the Author”, p.764

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• Search for role models you can look up to and people who take an interest in your career. But here's an important warning: you don't have to have mentors who look like you. Had I been waiting for a black, female Soviet specialist mentor, I would still be waiting. Most of my mentors have been old white men, because they were the ones who dominated my field.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Men, White Man, Careers

  "Condoleezza Rice – Former Secretary Of State". Interview with Ruchika Tulshyan, www.littlepinkbook.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Dating, Romance, Students

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• By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.

  Fatema Mernissi

  Beautiful, Children, Wall

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• Having children is not an act of God. It's not like you're walking down the street and pregnancy strikes you; children are a result of a conscious decision. For the most part, female-headed households are the result of short-sighted, self-destructive behavior of one or two people.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, Pregnancy, Self

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• A lot of panel programmes rely on men topping each other, or sparring with each other, which is not generally a very female thing.

  Victoria Wood

  Men, Toppings, Sparring

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• Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

  Hippocrates

  Life, Soul, Males

  Hippocrates, Heraclitus (of Ephesus.), Paul Potter, Edward Theodore Withington (1959). “Hippocrates”

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• A woman needs someone she can trust, someone who laughs when she laughs, but who has different ideas so she can learn from and teach to them. She needs someone who will stand up with her and encourage her to be a woman-not just a female. See where you are, admit what you know, and what you need, and search for a sister friend.

  Maya Angelou

  Ideas, Laughing, Black History

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• Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately things have changed, otherwise we would both already have been burned at the stake. When they stopped burning women, science found an explanation for our behavior, normally referred to as 'female hysteria.' We don't get burned anymore, but it does cause problems, especially in the workplace. But don't worry, eventually they'll call it 'wisdom.'

  Paulo Coelho

  Hysteria, Imagination, Worry

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