Female Quotes - Page 20

• The warfare between the unaroused male and female is constant and ferocious. Each blames the other for his loss of soul.

  John Steinbeck

  Loss, Men, Soul

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• Simple narcissism gives the power of beasts to politicians, professional wrestlers and female movie stars.

  Norman Mailer

  Stars, Simple, Giving

  Norman Mailer (2016). “Miami and the Siege of Chicago: An Informal History of the Republican and Democratic Conventions of 1968”, p.218, Random House

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• I used to go out with actresses and other female impersonators.

  Mort Sahl

  Acting, Actresses, Used

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• The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

  Jacob Bronowski

  Echoes, Choices, Males

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• No female iniquity was more severely condemned than the habit of plucking eyebrows and the hairline to heighten the forehead.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Eyebrows, Habit, Century

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• To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.

  Susan Faludi

  Marriage, Illness, Cures

  Susan Faludi (1991). “Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women”

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• A reader kindly pointed out to me recently that most of the quotes I include are by men. And it's true. Personally, I don't even consider whether the author is male or female, nor even care much who the author is - what's significant is the message. Of course, women are equally capable of great insights, however in our culture it's not so long ago that women could not even be published

  Charlotte Bronte

  Men, Long Ago, Males

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• In describing the honourable mission I charged him with, M. Pernety informed me that he made my name known to you. This leads me to confess that I am not as completely unknown to you as you might believe, but that fearing the ridicule attached to a female scientist, I have previously taken the name of M. LeBlanc in communicating to you those notes that, no doubt, do not deserve the indulgence with which you have responded.

  Sophie Germain

  Believe, Taken, Science

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• With pop music and pop musicians, you know everything about everyone all the time, particularly their physical appearance. With female musicians, that's made a big thing of, and I think people, certainly with me, have appreciated a bit of mystery.

  Lorde

  Thinking, People, Rock N Roll

  "Lorde, 16-Year-Old New Zealand Musician, Talks ‘Royals’ Video, Feminism And More" By Noah Michelson, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 24, 2013.

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• Relationship movies are often made for a female audience.

  Roman Coppola

  Made, Audience

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I don't have time to write a mom blog, but I'm not against it. I think it's great when women talk about things. I'm all about female empowerment. There's a lot of lonely, lost moms out there. Moms need to be encouraged to tell the truth. There's a lot of glamour mommy stuff. It's OK to get real.

  Kelly Cutrone

  Mom, Lonely, Real

  "Kelly Cutrone Speaks To Storked!". Interview with Christine Coppa, www.glamour.com. February 23, 2010.

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• There are many men - such as those often to be found among the Indians - who are refined until they have qualities often attributed to the female sex. Yet they are men, and strong ones.

  Agnes Smedley

  Strong, Sex, Men

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• Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

  Susan Griffin

  Culture, Kind, Slave

  Susan Griffin (2015). “Pornography and Silence: Culture's Revenge Against Nature”, p.168, Open Road Media

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• I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

  Jenny Eclair

  Thinking, Time Goes By

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• It's important to have female solidarity and support each other and other actresses.

  Rose Byrne

  Support, Important, Actresses

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• I do better singing female songs because my voice is so high-pitched.

  Chris Colfer

  Song, Voice, Singing

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• I was trained classically, and that's something that I want to do, but I do want to say that right now it's a good market for female comedians, and I want to explore that right now. I really do want to do dramas and meatier roles, especially film.

  Eliza Coupe

  Drama, Comedian, Roles

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Aww, whats the problem, gertrude? You mean to tell me that you can't walk into a bar with a $100 bill on your forehead and walk with anything, either male or female?

  Roddy Piper

  Mean, Wrestling, Gertrude

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• Aristotle, in spite of his reputation, is full of absurdities. He says that children should be conceived in the Winter, when the wind is in the North, and that if people marry too young the children will be female. He tells us that the blood of females is blacker than that of males; that the pig is the only animal liable to measles; that an elephant suffering from insomnia should have its shoulders rubbed with salt, olive-oil, and warm water; that women have fewer teeth than men, and so on. Nevertheless, he is considered by the great majority of philosophers a paragon of wisdom.

  Bertrand Russell

  Wisdom, Children, Winter

  Bertrand Russell (1943). “An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish: A Hilarious Catalogue of Organized and Individual Stupidity”

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• If any of us hopes to survive, she must meet the extremity of the American female condition with immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic.

  June Jordan

  Women, Political, Majority

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• I think there's something very lovely and hilarious about exploring the particular neuroses of the female mind. It's just not the same thing with men. I mean, there are exceptions, but for the most part, women beat themselves up in their heads more. They overanalyze stuff far more than men do.

  Lizzy Caplan

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  "Sundance Breakout Lizzy Caplan on "Save the Date" and Her Raunchy Comedy "Bachelorette". Interview with Bilge Ebiri, www.vulture.com. January 25, 2012.

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• Verily, I say unto you, that the wisdom of man, in his fallen state, knoweth not the purposes and the privileges of my hold priesthood, but ye shall know when ye receive a fullness by reason of the anointing: For it is my will, that in time, ye should take unto you wives of the Lamanites and Nephites, that their posterity may become white, delightsome and just, for even now their females are more virtuous then the gentiles.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Native American, Men, White

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• Because women and girls are not valued equally as human beings, they are treated as less than such. Female genital mutilation is one example of this that has to be stopped.

  Waris Dirie

  Girl, Example, Mutilation

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• I approach writing female characters the same why I approach writing male characters. I never think I'm writing about women, I think I'm writing about one woman, one person. And I try to imagine what she is like, and endow her with a lot of my own thoughts and history.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Writing, Character, Thinking

  "Jeffery Eugenides Discusses New Book: ‘The Marriage Plot’". Interview With Madeleine Crum, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 12, 2011.

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• I cannot believe that in all the years that there have been female stand-ups, there has never been a show just for them.

  Kate Flannery

  Believe, Years, Shows

  "Kate Flannery On ‘StandUp In Stilettos’: ‘The Girls Can Play Just As Hard As The Boys’" by Katla McGlynn, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 12, 2012.

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