Best 1058 quotes in «female quotes» category

I'm the female equivalent of a counterfeit $20 bill. Half of what you see is a pretty good reproduction, the rest is a fraud.

In 1969, nationwide, female professors who had never been married and never published earned 145% of their counterpart male colleagues.

In actual fact, the female function is to explore, discover, invent, solve problems crack jokes, make music - all with love. In other words, create a magic world.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

In America, every female under fifty calls herself a girl.

In a universe animated by the interaction of yin (female) and yang (male) energies, the moon was literally yin visible. Indeed, it was the very germ or source of yin, and the sun was its yang counterpart.

In college, it's very easy to maintain your female friendships because you're in such close proximity all the time.

In country music, there are certain female artists, like Gretchen Wilson, where you're going to find lesbians because they're responding to that more aggressive side.

I never used to see anything on TV where the man was in the weaker position. It was always the female showing emotion, breaking down, being emotionally torn apart by men.

In fact, the males very rarely take permanent mates.' His skin was so tan. 'Why not?' 'Because we tend to kill the females.' Ah, well, okay. That wasn't cool.

In my own experience of male and female directors, people have a much, much harder time taking a direct command from a woman. It's somehow very difficult for people.

In movement there is balance. In balance there is movement. Yoga is all about balance. Within and Without. Above, Below. Front, Behind. Male, Female. In, Out.

In my life I do look up to actors, at my age I ask myself, who else is playing interesting parts at my age which is very difficult for a female actor. On top of it, being a minority, having come from China makes it harder.

... in the end, Goddess is just a word. It simply means the divine in female form.

In the beginning, the feminine principle was seen as the fundamental cosmic force. All ancient peoples believed that the world was created by a female Diety.

In my vast experience, I've found it always wiser to go along with female advice... First, you make them happy by doing what they tell you. That's the main thing. Let them think they're in control. They love it. Then, if it turns out they were right, everything's cool. If it turns out they were wrong... then you have the pleasure of basking in the glow of superiority.

In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

In the forming of female friendships beauty seldom recommends one woman to another.

In the grammar of the phallus -- the I, I, I -- [woman] can't utter female experience.

In the indications of female poverty there can be no disguise. No woman dresses below herself from caprice.

In the pregnancy process I have come to realize how much of the burden is on the female partner. She's got a construction zone going on in her belly.

In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.

I put everyone in my school on to Nicki Minaj before she blew up. I was obsessed with her and I was like, 'If she's the best female rapper then I've got to be better than her.

In those days, young stars, male and female, were all virgins until married, and if divorced, they returned magically to that condition.

In varying degrees and and upon different levels all gods and goddesses represent aspects of One God Which is both 'male' and 'female'.

In the USA there is no female equivalent to god.

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

I play a female Indiana Jones, a professor who hunts down precious objects, like a bowl that belonged to the Buddha. They tailored the role to me: I wanted to be smart, funny, and to kick some ass.

I started to watch Damages and all of these amazing, female-driven shows, and it was something that was always in the back of my mind. Then, once I had my daughter, I realized that I was done living the romantic lifestyle, and nothing offers that more than television.

I really don't separate male from female ever with music, I really don't.

I receive more fan mail from the females.

I resent having witnessed the survival of some very mediocre male actors and the professional demise of the very brilliant female ones.

I see myself as a comedian rather than a female comedian. I happen to be a woman, but I am a comedian by trade.

Is there a gender gap in the music industry? It is true that there are more professional male music creators than female. For some reason, it's taking a lot longer in music than in literature and the visual arts to reach equilibrium. It was almost acceptable by the 19th century for female writers to be published, yet it's only in the last couple of decades, since about 1980, that historical female composers have really emerged.

I really get fired up with female protagonists. I can really feel the difference in myself when I am writing a script that has a woman at the center.

I remember the mid-50s well. It was when my life changed, and I left acting to become one of the first female television news reporters in the UK.

I tend to lean toward strong female stories. I want to make things that don't already exist out there.

It doesn’t matter how old you are, what level of schooling you’ve had or where you live—stalking is innate to the female psyche. We’ve all been there.

It doesn't matter if you're the smartest person in the room: If you're not someone who people want to be around, you won't get far. Likewise for helping those in line behind you. I take seriously my role as a mentor to young female filmmakers - I make sure my time is tithed.

I think glamour is a female thing. I don't think that's a male fantasy. I think glamour's a female fantasy.

I thing for female filmmakers a big issue is making their second and third films. You see the statistics, and the dropoff on the second and third [films] , are dire.

I think being able to sit in the shoes of a woman and being able to manage products that are mostly sold to women, alongside a lot of female employees, is really helpful because you hold that empathy to the situation. You can understand where the customer is coming from.

I think doing a female Elf in the Woodland realm was a bit safer, because we haven't met one of those yet.

I think female drummers are great. I think there should more of them.

I think for anyone - male or female - in improv, the biggest thing to get over is the fear. I think every improviser has that.

I think as time goes by you'll get female comics who are weirder - you'll get a female Mighty Boosh.

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

I think I have a lot of voices in my head and I guess my inner critic is a female.

I think I may boast myself to be, with all possible vanity, the most unlearned and uninformed female who ever dared to be an authoress.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.