Best 1058 quotes in «female quotes» category

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.

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

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

Males shouldnt be jealous. Thats a female trait.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Modesty is a diamond setting to female beauty.

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.

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

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

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

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

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%!

Most female models don't have any muscle mass.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

My female protagonist will not be this promiscuous, beautiful, dark-haired, thin lady. It will be a plump, blond, healer and so forth.

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

My mother, unlike yours, never exchanged sexual favors for a piece of silver," he said, addressing the first insult by banging the boy's head against the trunk of the tree. "And," he said with another resounding thump, "although I'm very familiar with that part of the female body, I take offense at being labeled one.

My mother didn't teach me lessons about being Chinese as strongly as she did the notion of who I was as a female.

My mother was in the kind of late-sixties, early-seventies origins of female emancipation. And she was very much like, "You're not going to be defined by how you look. It's going to be about who you are and what you do.

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

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?

Never noticed a female monkey not climbing as well as a male, have you?