Females And Males Quotes

• A lot of people [are] saying civil union," Faried told KDVR. "I don't like it being called that because I can get married to a female and it can be called a marriage. Why can't a female be married to a female and male be married to a male and it be called a marriage? You still have the same thing, same love and happiness.

  Kenneth Faried

  Gay, People, Happiness And Love

  "Kenneth Faried, Denver Nuggets Star, Supports Gay Marriage And His Two Moms", www.huffingtonpost.com. January 26, 2013.

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• I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.

  Zooey Deschanel

  Girl, Mean, Guy

  "Zooey Deschanel's Glamour Cover-Shoot Gallery", www.glamour.com. February 2013.

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• Maybe just as many women writers as male writers could be billed as the next great American writer by their publisher. Maybe book criticism sections could review an equal amount of female and male writers. Maybe Oprah could start putting some books by women authors in her book club, since most of her audience is women.

  Jami Attenberg

  Book, Criticism, Males

  "Interview With Jami Attenberg, Author of 'The Melting Season'". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• When you can find a strong character and a director that does want to protect the integrity of all characters, female and male, then you have a good deal.

  Amber Heard

  Strong, Integrity, Character

  "Harrison Ford, Liam Hemsworth, Amber Heard, Lucas Till, and Director Robert Luketic Talk PARANOIA, Real-Life Parallels, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 12, 2013.

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• It's really important to have life strategies and part of that is sort of knowing where you want to go so you can have a map that helps you to get there. And the traditional way tells us oh we get into school and someone else advises us, helps us, but that often does not work for African Americans female and male. Because what works for the dominant culture often does not work for us.

  Bell Hooks

  School, Knowing, African American

  Interview with Pierce Freelon, blackademics.org. October, 2006.

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• Imagine living in a world where there is no domination, where females and males are not alike or even always equal, but where a vision of mutuality is the ethos shaping our interaction.

  Bell Hooks

  Ethos, Vision, Males

  bell hooks (2014). “Feminism Is for Everybody: Passionate Politics”, p.14, Routledge

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• there are only two basic ways of structuring the relations between the female and male halves of humanity. All societies are patterned on either a dominator model - in which human hierarchies are ultimately backed up by force or the threat of force - or a partnership model, with variations in between.

  Riane Eisler

  Two, Humanity, Males

  Riane Tennenhaus Eisler (1987). “The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future”, Harpercollins

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• Femininity and masculinity are social constructs. Female and male are biological. We don't have to learn to be men or women but we do have to learn to be ladies and gentlemen.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Men, Gentleman, Males

  Rita Mae Brown (2009). “Rita Will: Memoir of a Literary Rabble-Rouser”, p.232, Bantam

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• Prostitution and robbery are two living protests, respectively female and male, made by the natural state against the social state.

  Honore de Balzac

  Two, Males, Female

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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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• You discovered yourself and what really mattered only after you passed through the lens of the fairy tale, imposed on every human female and male alike, that someone existed out in the forest of the world for you to love and marry.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Males, Female, Lenses

  Jonathan Lethem (2014). “Dissident Gardens”, p.156, Random House

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• Raising Black children-female and male-in the mouth of a racist, sexist, suicidal dragon is perilous and chancy. If they cannot love and resist at the same time, they will probably not survive.

  Audre Lorde

  Children, Suicidal, Dragons

  Audre Lorde (2012). “Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches”, p.74, Crossing Press

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• It is obvious that many women have appropriated feminism to serve their own ends, especially those white women who have been at the forefront of the movement; but rather than resigning myself to this appropriation I choose to re-appropriate the term “feminism,” to focus on the fact that to be “feminist” in any authentic sense of the term is to want for all people, female and male, liberation from sexist role patterns, domination, and oppression.

  Bell Hooks

  White, People, Focus

  "Ain't I a Woman?". Book by Gloria Jean Watkins, 1981.

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• As societies continue to loosen their standards regarding what is appropriate female and male behavior, I think we are going to realize we have not only underestimated women, but also men.

  Helen Fisher

  Men, Thinking, Males

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• I'd love to see more equal representation of female and male cartoonists on the comics page.

  Cathy Guisewite

  Glowing, Males, Female

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