Female Quotes

Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.

Obviously, as an adult I realize this girl-on-girl sabotage is the third worst kind of female behavior, right behind saying "like" all the time and leaving your baby in a dumpster.

Sacrifice, sacrifice, sacrifice! That's the condition of the female. Women have been conditioned to sacrifice for centuries.

I know what you need as a female to feel not just comfortable but powerful.

It will probably take several more generations before the female body can be considered a stand-in for the human body.

Irish people give big hellos and very little goodbyes. Unless they're female, and then they spend five hours talking in the doorway to the person that's leaving their house.

If you ask me, I'd like to become the first female president. That would be really cool. The first thing I would do is redecorate the White House, it doesn't look very cozy.

The sea is mother-death and she is a mighty female, the one who wins, the one who sucks us all up.

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.

In the tradition of great female artists, Karla Bonoff, Bonnie Raitt, Christine McVie, Shawn Colvin, Sarah McLachlan....now enter Maia Sharp.

Nobody bores any man as much as an unhappy female.

Prostitution is really the only crime in the penal law where two people are doing a thing mutually agreed upon and yet only one, the female partner, is subject to arrest.

Nikki Lamborn has the best female rock voice since Janis Joplin and I know what I’m talking about, I knew Janis.

The only safe male rebuke to a scornful female is to stay away from her - especially if that is what she desires.

I like so many different kinds of chick flicks. I like rom-coms, I like female friendship movies.

Two phrases I hate in reference to female characters are 'strong' and 'feisty.' They really annoy me. It's the most condescending thing. You say that about a three-year-old. It infantilises women.

I can't stand [female] characters that are not empowered in a certain way, or at least don't come to a conclusion at the end of the movie where they find empowerment in themselves.

I'd like to think of myself as somebody who has a voice for liberating female sexuality.

So many female characters are the girlfriend of the person having the adventure. I want to play baseball, I don't want to be the girlfriend of the one [who plays].

I was the female Marlon Brando of my generation.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

There are some strong female performers out there. But the industry's pre-occupation with the packaging of how a woman looks has gone completely the other way, back to almost the 60s, early 70s.

To be sure he's a Man, the male must see to it that the female be clearly a Woman, the opposite of a Man, that is, the female must act like a faggot.

Idiocy is the female defect ... It is no worse than the male defect, which is lunacy.

Wiles and deceit are female qualities.

It's about time that people forget that image of strip clubs as seedy places...Rather, today's clubs are capital-intensive female-empowerment zones.

Cartooning is a wonderful career, and I'd like more women to get to have it. I can't think of any reason why we won't see more syndicated female cartoonists in the future.

When I try to describe myself to God I say, 'Lord, remember me? Black? Female? Six-foot tall? The writer?' And I almost always get God's attention.

Miranda Lambert! She not only has amazing music, but she is an awesome role model for females and rescues lots of animals!

It's a guy thing, playing the guitar. Being a female and trying to go to the same auditions as the guys, it's pretty hard.

The young-old polarization and the male-female polarization are perhaps the two leading stereotypes that imprison people.

When you encounter sophistication in the creation of a female character, you thank the writers and you claim it.

I'm an Air Force officer first, a pilot second and then Nicole. The female part is last. . . . My job is to be the best right wingman that I can be.

[On being asked how it felt to be the first female conductor of the Boston Symphony:] I've been a woman for a little more than fifty years, and I've gotten over my original astonishment.

I do believe female directors, as well as our female writer, can bring out male vulnerability that some men can't because they can't face it.

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.

[Feminist:] One who believes in the liberation of that which has been suppressed as female in a man.

Freedom from discrimination for women, ensuring that female children can learn to read, these are human needs for half the human race, not western values.

The female body was designed as a source of pleasure, fertility, movement, strength and wellbeing.

I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

Qhuinn gave in immediately, as he was categorically incapable of denying the female anything — most certainly not one of her hugs. They were even better than her lasagna.

The female, not the male, determines all the conditions of the animal family. Where the female can derive no benefit from association with the male, no such association takes place.

I think it killed my sister as the times she was living in were so conformist. This is a subject I really want to deal with. I want to start making films about female rage.

Female bonobos form a strong sisterhood. They rule through female solidarity.

I'm sick of the media making female sports athletes into supermodels, when they're clearly sixes at best.

I think having a fighter in the lead, a female fighter in the lead, is exactly what America needs.

It's no coincidence that female interest in the sport of baseball has increased greatly since the ballplayers swapped those wonderful old-time baggy flannel uniforms for leotards.

Being young and female in America, you watch a lot of TV and you grow up on false images of what love truly is.