Female Quotes - Page 21

• It's cool to be a nerd. There's a general understanding that smartphones didn't come from jocks. The digital age was foreseen by a group of short-sleeved, buttoned-down, white-shirted guys and their female equivalents designing the very stuff that's now ubiquitous.

  J. J. Abrams

  Success, White, Smartphones

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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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• Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

  Caitlin Flanagan

  Intense, Periods, Adolescence

  "Hysteria and the Teenage Girl" by Caitlin Flanagan, www.nytimes.com. January 28, 2012.

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• If her functioning as a female is not enough to define woman, if we decline also to explain her through "the eternal feminine," and if nevertheless we admit, provisionally, that women do exist, then we must face the question: what is a woman?

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Faces, Eternity, Enough

  Simone de Beauvoir (1963). “Nature of the second sex”

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• I've admired Alicia Keys since before I got into the music industry, just everything she represents as a female artist.

  Melanie Fiona

  Artist, Keys, Music Industry

  "Melanie Fiona Looks Forward To 'Empowering' Tour With Alicia Keys" by Steven Roberts, www.mtv.com. January 08, 2010.

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• I have a lot of female fans.

  Lita Ford

  Fans

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• It is difficult to get men to pick up a female author. Women will read men, but men won't read women.

  Lisa Gardner

  Men, Difficult, Picks

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• If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being, we might believe that the whole treasure of morality and order is enshrined in the female character.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Women, Believe, Character

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• Generation by male and female is a law common to animals and plants.

  Herman Boerhaave

  Science, Animal, Law

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• If there is any kind of animal which is female and has no male separate from it, it is possible that this may generate a young one from itself. No instance of this worthy of any credit has been observed up to the present at any rate, but one case in the class of fishes makes us hesitate. No male of the so-called erythrinus has ever yet been seen, but females, and specimens full of roe, have been seen. Of this, however, we have as yet no proof worthy of credit.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Class, Males

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 1: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1150, Princeton University Press

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• I definitely am drawn to strong females who are successful, smart women because I am a woman like that. I think it's important to portray those kinds of women on film and television. Especially as a black woman, I think it's important.

  Megalyn Echikunwoke

  Strong, Smart, Successful

  Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 29, 2012.

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• Get shot down cuz your over zealous, play hard to get and females get jealous.

  Young MC

  Jealous, Play Hard, Advice

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• I absolutely adore Alessandra Rich, I think her dresses are stunning and she really knows how to cut and dress the female shape. Her stuff is really beautiful, stylish and a little bit quirky. I love it all!

  Jessica Brown Findlay

  Beautiful, Cutting, Thinking

  "Albatross's Jessica Brown Findlay Talks Style & Kate Middleton: EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW". Grazia Daily Interview, sg.news.yahoo.com. February 7, 2012.

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• All religions have always hated females.

  Peter Greenaway

  Hated

  "Peter Greenaway's pact with death" by Catherine Shoard, www.imdb.com. March 19, 2010.

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• I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.

  Angel Haze

  School, Rapper, Obsessed

  " Angel Haze: 'Right now, no one can beat me'" by Hermione Hoby, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2012.

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• I'm sort of like a T. rex in the world of female actresses. Every time a job is finished, I look at my car and think, 'Could I live in it?

  Lena Headey

  Jobs, Thinking, Car

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• Women didn't want to be on the stage with other women because they didn't want their bodies to be compared. They didn't want another female act opening for them because of this weird competitive and tokenistic attitude.

  Kathleen Hanna

  Attitude, Body, Want

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

  Sharon Horgan

  Men, Torn Apart, Tvs

  "Sharon Horgan: 'I love making men cry'". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 11, 2011.

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• I landed the role of Bravo 5, the only female fighter pilot in 'Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace.' I did my bit and fired my guns, but I haven't a notion of which side I was on or who I was firing the guns at.

  Celia Imrie

  Stars, War, Gun

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• There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

  Julia Jones

  Native American, Way, Notable

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• Well, I happen to believe all business is female business.

  Eddie Bernice Johnson

  Believe, Wells, Happens

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• Females do not have orgasms every time they have sex.

  Sue Johanson

  Sex

  "Talking sex with Sue Johanson". The McGill Daily Interview, www.mcgilldaily.com. April 6, 2009.

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• I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction between the two - are always dominated by fools, knaves, charlatans and bureaucrats.

  Harold Bloom

  Thinking, Two, Voice

  Interview with Imre Salusinski in "Criticism in Society", 1987.

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• Politics is traditionally a male domain in Russia. Until now, women have only been accessories. Now, female protest groups are emerging - not because men came up with the idea, but through their own efforts. That's something new for Russia.

  Alexei Navalny

  Men, Russia, Ideas

  "Pussy Riot Trial 'Reminds Me of the Inquisition'". Interview with Matthias Schepp, www.spiegel.de. August 20, 2012.

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• The bottom line is that female writers aren't being given enough opportunities by male producers.

  Chris O'Dowd

  Opportunity, Female Writers, Males

  "This much I know: Chris O'Dowd". Interview with Sarah Hughes, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2012.

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