Best 1058 quotes in «female quotes» category

Don't be intimidated by what you don't know.

Elizabeth A. Johnson explains that including divine female symbols and images not only challenges the dominance of male images but also calls into question the structure of patriarchy itself.

Early in the phase of being in a female body, there's all this desire that comes at you, a lot of it hostile, a lot of it dangerous, a lot of it ruinous.

Emma Willard told the legislature that the education of women "has been too exclusively directed to fit them for displaying to advantage the charms of youth and beauty" The problem, she said, was that "the taste of men, whatever it might happen to be, has made into a standard for the formation of the female character." Reason and religion teach us, she said, that "we too are primary existences...not the satellites of men.

Driven, damaged and dangerous, FBI agent Mercy Gunderson is one of the best female leads to come down the pike since Eve Dallas. Lori Armstrong delivers the goods with MERCILESS.

Every animal on the planet attracts mates with the goal of reproduction. Frogs swell their bodies. Male gorillas beat their chests. Have you ever watched a male lobster rise up on the tips of his legs and snap his claws, demanding female attention? Attraction is the first element of all animal reproduction, humans included

Ensure that you do things differently from everyone else

Even if you don't release it, find a scream. It's so liberating. You can do anything then. It’s like you can fly. It gives you superpowers.

Every character that I play, even if it's a homemaker, there is an inherent, innate strength in her - you can find strength in every facet of a female personality. It doesn't just come from the physical strength of a woman.

Every man harbors an inner female territory ruled by his mother, from whom he can never entirely break free.

Everybody, male or female, needs to possess qualities that they expect others to uphold. Being aware of yourself and your actions allows you to assess your shortcomings in an honest way.

Everyone always says I'm a rapper, and that I'm exactly like Peaches and M.I.A. People just take any female artist and compare me to them.

Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.

Everyone needs to get more comfortable with female leaders-including female leaders themselves.

Every female wanna come up to me and show me how much they're not attracted to me... these minority women... they're the only women I can get cause everyone else is scared of me.

Exotic: meaning you're "desired." For madness is seductive, sexy. Female madness. So long as the female is reasonably young and attractive.

Every time I go out in London, I'm not always with my guys. I have three female friends that I'll go out with all the time. I'm the only guy there.

Every woman should recruit a female friend to take up golf so there will be more women available to play.

Far be it from me, my dear sister, to depreciate such pleasures. They would doubtless be congenial with the generality of female minds. But I confess they would have no charms for me. I should infinitely prefer a book.

Exploring female rage on film doesn't frighten me - it might frighten a lot of people in my business, but, gosh, I know a lot about that, from personal experience and friends' experiences.

Female athletes are supposed to be toned down. You're always supposed to talk about the team and never stand out.

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

Female, I give you fair warning: you are playing with fire" - Tegan to Elise (Midnight Awakening

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

Female performers have been doing this for years - pushing the envelope about sexuality - and the minute a man does it, everybody freaks out.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

Female masturbation is permissible unconditionally.

Female cats are very Lascivious, and make advances to the male.

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it.

FEMALE, n. One of the opposing, or unfair, sex.

Female roles in comedies are usually quite silly, I think.

Female schools might be comprised in the list of those worthy the public patronage, with great propriety.

Feminism is lesbian in the sense that lesbians have always hated the female role and coveted the male role. It is based on Marxist notions of "equality" and class conflict that have no relevance to mystical and biological phenomenon such as love.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Female beauty is an important Minor Sacrament which cannot be received too often; I am not at all sure that neglect of it does not constitute a sin of some kind.

Female exposure shouldn't be labelled as 'cheap.'

Female listeners are leaving traditional talk radio because of the rough-edged, shouting nature of it. Women want more light and less heat.

Females carry the marks, language and nuances of their culture more than the male. Anything that is desired or despised is always placed on the female body.

Female spies typically represented one of two extremes: the seductress who employed her wiles to manipulate men, and the cross-dresser who blended in by impersonating them.

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

Female adolescence is - universally - an emotionally and psychologically intense period.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Finally, when all was said and done, the certainty (so often experienced, yet always new) that female charms, the kind that inflame the senses, are no more than kitchen smells: they tease you when you're hungry and disgust you when you've had your fill.

For acting, if there's a strong female role and there is that action element, for me that just feels really natural.

For me the goddess is the female of God, She is powerful if different.

For me, I guess, just learning that just because there's not a whole lot of female MCs on the front lines being supported by major record labels doesn't mean they don't exist. It doesn't mean they don't have the drive and the competitive nature and the will and the way.

For a male and female to live continuously together is biologically speaking, an extremely unnatural condition.

For the most part, pianos are female to me. Sometimes they're dykes, and they're always good fun.

For some men the power to destroy life becomes the equivalent to the female power to create life.

Fortune, like other females, prefers a lover to a master, and submits with impatience to control; but he that wooes her with opportunity and importunity will seldom court her in vain.