Best 1058 quotes in «female quotes» category

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female.

Just because I'm a woman doesn't mean I'm the same as every other female singer.

Just being around the awareness field of the male or female imprinter, the child is imprinted.

Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.

Kinsey Millhone is a female Sam Spade; a thorough professional, a loner, clear-headed and unsentimental.

Leigh did what any sane female faced with such an e-mail would do: deleted it to resist the temptation of replying, cleared her trash to resist the temptation of recalling it, and then called tech support to restore all her recently deleted e-mails. (Chasing Harry Winston)

Let God be some tribal female who is known but forbidden.

Let not men then in the pride of power, use the same arguments that tyrannic kings and venal ministers have used, and fallaciously assert that women ought to be subjected because she has always been so.... It is time to effect a revolution in female manners - time to restore to them their lost dignity.... It is time to separate unchangeable morals from local manners.

Let the men do their duty & the women will be such wonders; the female life lives from the light of the male: see a man's female dependants, you know the man.

Madness and witchery as well as bestiality are conditions commonly associated with the use of the female voice in public.

Lovely female shapes are terrible complicators of the difficulties and dangers of this earthly life, especially for their owners.

Let the world feel your compassion: Help save kidnapped Yazidi females!

Male conspiracy cannot explain all female failures. I am convinced that, even without restrictions, there still would have been no female Pascal, Milton, or Kant. Genius is not checked by social obstacles: it will overcome.

MAMMALIA, n.pl. A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.

Male and female are the first things we learn because they represent the polarity of existence.

Male female slave or free; peaceful or disorderly; maybe you and he will not agree; but you need him to show you new ways to see.

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

Male and female have the power to fuse into one solid, both because both are nourished in both and because soul is the same thing in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.

Male philosophers coin phrases -- 'virtue is its own reward' -- and female workers embody them.

Male science disregards female experiences because it can never share them.

Many of my books are written from a female perspective. I rather enjoy the take that women have on the world, and certainly I enjoy the conversations that women have.

Many comedians - both male and female - do have an "I will never date another comedian" rule.

Maybe there is a feeling that women get judged more about how they look and how they present themselves visually as opposed to what they are thinking and feeling. Especially as a female performer that happens a lot, and I think that is regressing even more, which I find really sad.

Masculinity cannot exist without femininity. On its own, masculinity has no meaning, because it is but one half of a set of power relations. Masculinity pertains to male dominance as femininity pertains to female subordination.

May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

Many writers over the centuries simply do not have the reputations they deserve because they were female, and that is an act of suppression.

Maybe it's the culture, maybe it's the cliché of Latino machismo, but the Mediterranean male character is more dull than the female character. Women are more surprising and they have fewer prejudices.

Michael Taylor is not being executed for homicide. Michael Taylor is being executed for raping a white female.

Men have never really been encouraged to listen to their intuition, or told that they have an intuition. It's been more of a female thing, at least according to our society, but that's not true at all.

Meryl [Stripe]spoke out about the low percentage of female critics on Rotten Tomatoes. Why are there 760 male critics and just 168 women? You are immediately [biased] on what kind of films you are being told to go see. What are you told are good films? Male films.

Men always say there is no female Shakespeare.' 'Humph! You study the fellows who say that, and you'll see they are a long way from being Shakespeares themselves. Why shouldn't women have the same privilege?

Men have constructed female sexuality and in so doing have annihilated the chance for sexual intelligence in women. Sexual intelligence cannot live in the shallow, predestined sexuality men have counterfeiteed for women.

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

Modesty used to be considered a natural female attribute. No more.

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

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

Most companies target women as end users, but few are effectively utilizing female employees when it comes to innovating for female consumers. When women are empowered in the design and innovation process, the likelihood of success in the marketplace improves by 144%!

Money is not an aphrodisiac: the desire it may kindle in the female eye is more for the cash than the carrier.

Moreover, I wish to assure you both that I did not make any amorous advances on female monkeys.

Most male painters have historically admired the female form. It's got a lot going for it.

Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.

Most of the times to be honest with you, I get sexually harassed certainly more than I do to females, because... they are comfortable with me, and because they know I can't take it to a dangerous place.

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

Most women can't handle the reality of what comes with being with me. It takes a very secure woman to be backstage at a concert hearing 15,000 females going crazy.

My advice for other female directors: don't think of your gender as a handicap. Don't think about it at all. Just tell the best story you can, and don't stop until you do.

Much of the demand for women in combat comes from female officers who are eager for medals and promotions.

Much female conversation is, in fact, about survival - but in code.

My advice to all new writers - male or female - it isn't easy, but forge ahead and be true to your originality.

My favorite sport is female and my favorite food is beer.