Female Quotes - Page 27

• The greatest percentage of poverty is found in female-headed households. Over 70 percent of female-headed households are poor. A large percentage of poor people are children (17 percent); fully 85 percent of black children living in poverty reside in a female-headed household.

  Walter E. Williams

  Children, People, Black

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• The first class opposition that appears in history coincides with the development of the antagonism between man and woman in monogamous marriage, and the first class oppression coincides with that of the female sex by the male.

  Friedrich Engels

  Sex, Men, Class

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Philip Gasper (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.184, Haymarket Books

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• Of course, we can distinguish between males and females; we can also, if we choose, distinguish between different age categories; but any more advanced distinction comes close to pedantry, probably a result of boredom. A creature that is bored elaborates distinctions and hierarchies. According to Hutchinson and Rawlins, the development of systems of hierarchical dominance within animal societies does not correspond to any practical necessity, nor to any selective advantage; it simply constitutes a means of combating the crushing boredom of life in the heart of nature.

  Michel Houellebecq

  Crush, Heart, Mean

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• As a young woman in politics, it also gives me great pleasure to see additional female cabinet representation here today. You know, these are very high levels of representation for women around the cabinet table and I think that that's something that's very important to me.

  Michelle Rempel

  Thinking, Giving, Important

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• I've always had difficulties with female characters.

  John le Carre

  Character, Literature, Difficulty

  Interview with Adrian Wootton, www.theguardian.com. October 5, 2002.

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• In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.

  Nikolai Berdyaev

  Sex, Men, Males

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• Measure her rights and duties by the unerring standard of moral being… and then the truth will be self-evident, that whatever it is morally right for a man to do, it is morally right for a woman to do. I recognize no rights but human rights – I know nothing of men’s rights and women’s rights; for in Christ Jesus, there is neither male nor female. It is my solemn conviction, that, until this principle of equality is recognised and embodied in practice, the Church can do nothing effectual for the permanent reformation of the world.

  Angelina Grimke

  Jesus, Men, Rights

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• The female of genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply.

  Charlotte Perkins Gilman

  Males, Dependent, Food Supply

  "The Humanness of Women".

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• Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above.

  Virginia Woolf

  Sex, Opposites, Clothes

  Virginia Woolf (2012). “Orlando: A Biography”, p.207, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The uncomfortable truth seems to be that the amount of talk by women has been measured less against the amount of men's talk than against the expectation of female silence.

  Gloria Steinem

  Men, Expectations, Silence

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.281, Open Road Media

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• All animals are sad after coitus except the female human and the rooster.

  Galen

  Sex, Animal, Roosters

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• Coming to terms with the rhythms of women's lives means coming to terms with life itself, accepting the imperatives of the body rather than the imperatives of an artificial, man-made, perhaps transcendentally beautiful civilization. Emphasis on the male work-rhythm is an emphasis on infinite possibilities; emphasis on the female rhythms is an emphasis on a defined pattern, on limitation.

  Margaret Mead

  Beautiful, Mean, Men

  Margaret Mead (1975). “Male and female: a study of the sexes in a changing world”, William Morrow & Co

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• The capitalists speculate on the two following factors: the female worker must be paid as poorly as possible and the competition of female labour must be employed to lower the wages of male workers as much as possible.

  Clara Zetkin

  Two, Competition, Males

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• Let's be realistic - 90% of superheroes are male. Personally, I prefer Superman, Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman. Not that I don't like female superheroes, but watching male superheroes gives me a high.

  Kajol

  Men, Giving, Superhero

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• When one is required to preside over the Church, and be entrusted with the care of so many souls, the whole female sex must retire before the magnitude of the task, and the majority of men also.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Sex, Men, Soul

  Saint Augustine (Bishop of Hippo.), Saint John Chrysostom (1983). “A Select Library of the Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers of the Christian Church”

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• I have been feeding pigeons, thousands of them for years. But there was one, a beautiful bird, pure white with light grey tips on its wings; that one was different. It was a female. I had only to wish and call her and she would come flying to me. I loved that pigeon as a man loves a women, and she loved me. As long as I had her, there was a purpose to my life.

  Nikola Tesla

  Beautiful, Men, Light

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• I am not able to instruct you. I can only tell that I have chosen wrong. I have passed my time in study without experience; in the attainment of sciences which can, for the most part, be but remotely useful to mankind. I have purchased knowledge at the expense of all the common comforts of life: I have missed the endearing elegance of female friendship, and the happy commerce of domestic tenderness.

  Samuel Johnson

  Able, Comfort, Common

  Samuel Johnson (1850). “The history of Rasselas, prince of Abyssinia, a tale”, p.33

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• The ocean, whose tides respond, like women's menses, to the pull of the moon, the ocean which corresponds to the amniotic fluid in which human life begins, the ocean on whose surface vessels (personified as female) can ride but in whose depth sailors meet their death and monsters conceal themselves... it is unstable and threatening as the earth is not; it spawns new life daily, yet swallows up lives; it is changeable like the moon, unregulated, yet indestructible and eternal.

  Adrienne Rich

  Ocean, Moon, Monsters

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• It's rather fun writing a female spy, because she has so much more kit. Bond never carried a hair dryer or a makeup bag. And he certainly didn't wear an uplift bra.

  Helen Fielding

  Uplifting, Fun, Writing

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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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• I would not say that female cosmonauts are not welcomed in the Russian space program. I must say, however, that all spaceflight hardware, including spacesuits and spacecraft comfort assuring systems, were designed mostly by men and for men.

  Valentina Tereshkova

  Men, Space, Comfort

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• The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

  Cherrie Moraga

  Earth, Body, Brown

  Cherríe Moraga, Irma Mayorga (2001). “The Hungry Woman”

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• My mother always told me,”hide your face- people are looking at you”. I would reply,”It does not matter; I am also looking at them.

  Malala Yousafzai

  Life, Mother, Work

  Malala Yousafzai (2013). “I Am Malala: How One Girl Stood Up for Education and Changed the World (Young Readers Edition)”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• I hope and believe we are paving a better future for female artists to come

  Paula Cole

  Believe, Artist, Paving

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• Anthropology in general has always been fairly hospitable to female scholars, and even to feminist scholars

  Clifford Geertz

  Feminist, Anthropology, Scholar

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