Female Quotes - Page 9

• I never realized that as a woman I would be looked at as less than until I was pretty deep in this business and realized, 'Oh my God. I'm being treated this way because I'm female.

  Sandra Bullock

  Would Be, Way, Treated

  Interview with Cindy Pearlman, acttwomagazine.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I always want a challenge. My whole career has been based on trying to avoid female characters that don't get to do anything. And it's really hard to avoid those.

  Geena Davis

  Character, Careers, Challenges

  "Twenty-Five Years After 'Thelma & Louise,' Geena Davis Says She Wanted Susan Sarandon's Role". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've had countless jihadis shut me down straightaway and say, "I'm not allowed to speak to any woman who is not my relative." But among the few I'm able to get through to, I think that being female makes me more approachable, soft, all the stereotypes of what female means.

  Rukmini Maria Callimachi

  Mean, Thinking, Able

  Source: www.politico.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We don't have music that talks about sexuality from a female standpoint.

  Demi Lovato

  Sexuality, Standpoint

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If anything, being a female has afforded me opportunities on YouTube that I necessarily didn't have in doing traditional comedy and auditioning in TV and film, and that whole world.

  Grace Helbig

  Opportunity, Tvs, World

  Source: www.indiewire.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have an overwhelming majority of one sex over the other, and clearly in our case at the moment - and it has been like this for a long time - it is male over female, you tend to have group thinking. You tend to have common references, combined with competition, combined in this case with testosterone. I'm not suggesting it's a toxic mix, but I'm saying it needs to be tempered and altered and modified and made better by diversity.

  Christine Lagarde

  Sex, Thinking, Diversity

  "Christine Lagarde on slow growth, inequality and fighting cynicism". Interview with Kevin Carmichael, www.macleans.ca. September 12, 2016.

  13 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm the mother of two daughters, one of whom is going to get possessed. It's really spooky and great. I'm shooting it right now. That's why I'm in Chicago. I wanted to tell you about the other direction that this trying-to-get-more-female-characters thing has taken, which is that I launched my own film festival last year.

  Geena Davis

  Daughter, Mother, Taken

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It's funny when I look at my life; my primary school was two-thirds male to one-third female. So I started my life that way. I have two brothers. And when I did Harry Potter, the ratio was more often than not, at the very least, one-third female, two-thirds male.

  Emma Watson

  Brother, School, Two

  Interview with Geena Davis, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I've had people who see all my characters as Native, even if they aren't. It's kind of like assuming all a writer's characters are really female because the writer is a woman. I've learned to let that go.

  Eden Robinson

  Character, People, Kind

  "The Saturday Rumpus Interview With Eden Robinson". Interview With Helga Schimkat, therumpus.net. September 24, 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

  Roy Haylock

  Fall, Erotic, Clown

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• We live in an imbalanced society when it comes to encouraging male sexuality and discouraging female sexuality.

  Demi Lovato

  Males, Sexuality, Discouraging

  Source: www.glamour.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Growing up in Asia in a particular time period - the '50s and '60s - I attended a Catholic missionary school where I was taught by nuns and where consciousness of the body was repressed. Yet at the same time, the female body was a highly visible and sensitive site.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Growing Up, School, Catholic

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It so happens that the major relationships in the novel [The Kite Runner] are between men, dictated not by any sort of prejudice or discomfort with female characters, but rather by the demands of the narrative.

  Khaled Hosseini

  Character, Men, Prejudice

  17 Copy quote

• I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and the subject of not wanting a child is a very interesting subject, one that's not dealt with very much actually.However that complexity was not serving the story of what became the film [The Girl on the Train].

  Erin Cressida Wilson

  Girl, Children, Book

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Couple, Muse, Masculine

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Doe, Body, Problem

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As the only girl growing up for a long time with only boys, as you pointed out, it seems like I was always surrounded by guys. There was this sense in which my female body was a problem.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I feel like male patriarchy generally has been about repressing female sexuality because it's "scary."

  Ruth Wilson

  Scary, Males, Sexuality

  Interview with John Cameron Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 31, 2016.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• When the feminist movement was at its zenith in the late 60's and early 70's, there was a lot of moving away from the idea of the person. It was: let's talk about the ideas behind the work, and the people matter less. It was kind of a gimmicky thing, but lots of feminist women were doing it. Many of us took the names of our female ancestors - bell hooks is my maternal great grandmother - to honor them and debunk the notion that we were these unique, exceptional women. We wanted to say, actually, we were the products of the women who'd gone before us.

  Bell Hooks

  Moving, Grandmother, Unique

  Source: nefac.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You do not need to be female to be offended.

  Steven Petrow

  Needs, Offended

  Source: live.washingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My point was the world is missing female characters. A lot of times there is one female character, maybe even a cool one, maybe even an important one. But where are all the rest?

  Geena Davis

  Character, Missing, Important

  Interview with Emma Watson, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 25, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The consciousness of one's physical self had to be repressed because, socially, the female body was so visible, an ongoing provocation and incitement of specular curiosity and fascination.

  Shirley Geok-lin Lim

  Self, Curiosity, Ongoing

  "Walking with Her Muse: An Interview with Shirley Geok-lin Lim". Contemporary Women's Writing, Volume 8, Issue 2, 1 July 2014, Pages 123 - 135, academic.oup.com. June 22, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The way that I'm feeling the shift in movie industry is that women are allowed to be part of the development process. So I do feel like things are changing because I'm allowed to option books or write an original screenplay or direct. Those possibilities are really wide open. I think that males still struggle to write for females, which is totally fine because I don't think I could write a really impactful male role because that's not the life that I lived. So we'll just keep shouting and say we need more opportunities for not just women but people that are just different.

  Brie Larson

  Struggle, Book, Writing

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• The argument that it is difficult to find women is complete BS. Any bank will tell you that the No. 1 employee they lose the most money on is the mid-tier female they bring on when they are 22 who leaves in her mid to late 30s. These are women they spend a ton of money training, and a ton of money attracting and hiring. And then they lose them. And they lose them for many reasons. They're going to other sectors, other industries. So for us in the financial-services world to say we can't find women is ridiculous. They are out there. We've done it here at Anthemis.

  Amy Nauiokas

  Training, Done, World

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was being generous. Gia Coppola wasn't even a filmmaker at that time, but I asked her to do it, because I believed in her as an artist. And because I wanted a woman's take on the material. The book Palo Alto is very male-centric, but Gia carved out a bunch of the female characters, and brought them to the fore in the movie. And the project was richer for it.

  James Franco

  Book, Character, Artist

  Source: i-d.vice.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source