Female Quotes - Page 24

• The female format is a beautiful one in which to function. Foolhardy as it may be. I change my image all the time, it's whatever suits me at the moment.

  Lydia Lunch

  Beautiful, Lunch, May

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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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• A female piano player is always pretty cool to me.

  Chrisette Michele

  Player, Piano

  "Chrisette Michele shocked at No. 1 standingMay 20, 2009". Interview with Shanon Cook, www.cnn.com. May 20, 2009.

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• Musically, I have more things in common with tons of bands that have no female members.

  St. Vincent

  Band, Common, Members

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• Malandrinas' means 'bad girls,' but not bad in a negative way. I wrote it in homage to my female fans.

  Jenni Rivera

  Girl, Mean, Fans

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• A female vocal can lift a song.

  Jessie Ware

  Song, Lifts, Vocal

  "One to watch: Jessie Ware" by Morwenna Ferrier, www.theguardian.com. February 25, 2012.

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• Strong female leads are important.

  Chris Hemsworth

  Strong, Important, Strong Female

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• It's been suggested that most women fail to write significantly because the female mind is viscerotonic, and occupied almost exclusively with the moment-to-moment reality of emotions. If this is true, literature's loss is science fiction's gain, for Out of Bounds, Judith Merril's collection of short stories, is a warm and colorful rendering of the minutiae of the future.

  Alfred Bester

  Writing, Loss, Reality

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• It was given out that the animals there practised cannibalism, tortured one another with red-hot horseshoes, and had their females in common. This was what came of rebelling against the laws of Nature, Frederick and Pilkington said.

  George Orwell

  Animal, Law, Hot

  George Orwell (2016). “Animal Farm”, p.14, Hamilton Books

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• I wanted to have very strong female characters. I just thought it was always the way the world should be.

  Elizabeth Hand

  Strong, Character, World

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• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  Zoe Kazan

  Children, Thinking, Giving

  "Ruby Sparks writer-star Zoe Kazan on love, relationships, and biology". Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. July 25, 2012.

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• Everyone has a different training style and being a female, sometimes you find you have to get really aggressive. Some people respond really well to aggression, some people don't.

  Cara Castronuova

  People, Style, Training

  "'Biggest Loser': Meet the mystery trainers!". Interview with Dan Snierson, ew.com. January 18, 2011.

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• Because I am female, I’m expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important.

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Mutual Support, Choices, Mind

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (2014). “We Should All Be Feminists”, p.15, Vintage

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• The best introduction by far to representation of the human figure in art. The Nude is a beautifully written work of sophisticated connoisseurship that analyzes art in its own terms rather than imposing strident, politicized categories on it. It outlines the major body types, male and female, in Western art and, via a wealth of illustrations, trains the reader's eye to detect and evaluate proportion. This book reveres art

  Camille Paglia

  Art, Book, Eye

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• Today, the ideal male is the gay man and the ideal female is the worker female, the woman who can work in a coal mine just like all the other men.

  Camille Paglia

  Gay, Men, Males

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• If, Sir, I possessed the power of conveying unlimited sexual attraction through the potency of my voice, I would not be reduced to accepting a miserable pittance from the BBC for interviewing a faded female in a damp basement.

  Gilbert Harding

  Voice, Interviews, Miserable

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• I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson

  School, Thinking, Directors

  "Angelina Jolie and Jennifer Yuh Nelson: Newest Members of a Very Small Club". Interview with Pamela McClintock, www.hollywoodreporter.com. December 8, 2011.

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• It must be hard to be a female in a David Mackenzie movie. I feel like women in his films are portrayed a certain way - like broken people.

  Jamie Bell

  People, Broken, Way

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Deeds are males, words females are.

  Sir John Davies

  Males, Deeds

  "Scene of Folly", p. 147, as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 184-87, 1922.

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• Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

  John Milton

  Men, Law, Hours

  John Bell, Joseph Addison, John Banks, Michael Arne, John Brown (1796). “British Theatre: Caractacus”

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• I hate to say there are female and male ways of dealing with power, because I think each of us has a male and a female part. But based on my own experience, women will tend to be inclusive, to reach out more, to care a little more.

  Christine Lagarde

  Hate, Thinking, Males

  "A Study in Power: Christine Lagarde" by Camilla Webster, www.forbes.com. August 24, 2011.

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• Male menopause is a lot more fun than female menopause. With female menopause you gain weight and get hot flashes. Male menopause ? you get to date young girls and drive motorcycles.

  John Wayne

  Funny, Movie, Girl

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• Was it possible I'd labeled him incorrectly? Shallow jocksdidn't overcome adversity and accomplish the things Leif had. I'd labeled him, not even knowing him. Just because girls went gaga over him andevery boy wanted to be him didn't make him a jerk. The only jerk in the room happened to be the judgmental, elitist female. Me.

  Abbi Glines

  Girl, Adversity, Boys

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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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• Women hold the power because we have the vaginas. If you're in a heterosexual relationship and you're a female, you win.

  Megan Fox

  Winning, Ifs

  "Megan Fox Has Vagina Power, Self-Loathing" By Katy Hall, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 16, 2009.

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