Gender Quotes - Page 4

• O! how short a time does it take to put an end to a woman's liberty!

  Fanny Burney

  Liberty, Doe, Ends

  Diary, 20 July 1768

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• Real feminism is spinsterhood.

  Florence King

  Real, Feminism, Spinsterhood

  Florence King (1990). “Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye”, p.47, Macmillan

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• Maybe in that earlier phase I was painting the woman in me. Art isn't a wholly masculine occupation, you know.

  Willem de Kooning

  Art, Phases, Occupation

  Willem De Kooning, Gagosian Gallery (2004). “De Kooning: a centennial exhibition”

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• A female artist friend of mine recently told me that she was advised to 'look more slutty.' I asked her boyfriend what the equivalent advice for a man would be. He said to be more muscular. That made me rush to the gym.

  Mark Kostabi

  Artist, Men, Advice

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• Women don't paint very well. It's a fact. There are, of course, exceptions. Agnes Martin or, from the past, Paula Modersohn-Becker.

  Georg Baselitz

  Past, Facts, Paint

  "My Paintings are Battles". Interview with Susanne Beyer, Ulrike Knöfel, www.spiegel.de. January 25, 2013.

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• Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an otherwise flawless stone. It is, quite spectacularly, art which is not based on the subjugation of one half of the species.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Running, Art, Real

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• For a woman to go out alone into architecture is still very, very hard. It's still a man's world.

  Zaha Hadid

  Men, World, Architecture

  "I don't do nice". Interview with Jonathan Glancey, www.theguardian.com. October 9, 2006.

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• Women can also be creative in total isolation. I know excellent women artists who do original work without any response to speak of. Maybe they are used to lack of feedback. Maybe they are tougher.

  Elaine de Kooning

  Artist, Creative, Isolation

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• Women anchor me. They're there when I need them. They're sensitive to me, and I'm sensitive to them. I'm not saying I've loved that many women.

  Ray Charles

  Anchors, Needs, Sensitive

  Ray Charles, David Ritz (1978). “Brother Ray: Ray Charles' Own Story”

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• Writing as a woman presents enormous problems but I have attempted it several times and haven't had many complaints.

  Jim Harrison

  Writing, Literature, Problem

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• Women to whom one has just been introduced think that it breaks the ice if they scream, 'Goodness, you're tall!' How would they like it if I broke the ice first, by screaming 'Goodness, what thick ankles!' or 'Goodness, what a bust!

  Tyrone Guthrie

  Thinking, Ice, Ankles

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• Study the lives of our great women, who were models of patience, fortitude, compassion and sacrifice.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Sacrifice, Compassion, Study

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• I was a liberated woman long before there was a name for it.

  Peggy Guggenheim

  Names, Long, Liberated

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• A woman or a man creating feel very much the same way.

  Grace Hartigan

  Men, Creating, Way

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• A learned woman is thought to be a comet that bodes mischief whenever it appears.

  Bathsua Makin

  Comets, Mischief

  1673 An Essay to Revive the Antient Education of Gentlewomen In Religion, Manners, Art and Tongues,With An Answer to the Objections against this Way of Education.

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• Just because a woman is silent does not mean she agrees.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Mean, Doe, Silent

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• A basis for much of the pain women suffer in real life is they must somehow resolve their devotion to men.

  Billy Cannon

  Pain, Real, Men

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• Even if so inclined, an artist has no business to marry. For a man, it may be well enough, but for a woman, on whom matrimonial duties and cares weigh more heavily, it is a moral wrong, for she must either neglect her family, or her profession.

  Harriet Hosmer

  Artist, Men, Care

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• To me gender is not physical at all, but is altogether insubstantial. It is soul, perhaps, it is talent, it is taste, it is environment, it is how one feels, it is light and shade, it is inner music.

  Jan Morris

  Light, Soul, Shade

  Jan Morris (2011). “Conundrum”, p.26, Faber & Faber

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• We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership

  William J. Clinton

  Needs, Generations, New Generation

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• In our hearts and in our laws, we must treat all our people with fairness and dignity, regardless of their race, religion, gender or sexual orientation. . . .

  William J. Clinton

  Heart, Race, Law

  Clinton, William J. (2000). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 2000-2001”, p.2953, Best Books on

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• There's no question that many more women artists are showing worldwide now than they were when I was a young woman, and that's really great.

  Judy Chicago

  Artist, Young, Really Great

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• Women hear rhythm differently than men.

  Elvis Costello

  Men, Rhythm

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• The men resent a woman getting any honour in what they consider is essentially their field. Men painters mostly despise women painters. So I have decided to stop squirming, to throw any honour in with Canada and women.

  Emily Carr

  Men, Canada, Fields

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.383, D & M Publishers

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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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