Best 1058 quotes in «female quotes» category

The lady is proverbial for her skill in eluding definition ... she may be described merely as the female of the favored social class.

The leading distinction in magnets is the sex, male and female, and the next great difference in them is the colour. Those of Magnesia, bordering on Macedonia, are of a reddish black; those of Breotia are more red than black; and the kind that is found in Troas is black, of the female sex, and consequently destitute of attractive power.

The last thing I want to be is sanctimonious, but the thing that frustrates me is the deceit and betrayal, how there's one rule for males and another for females.

The memoir by women, read by female readers, is considered a market form, not "great literature.

The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Theology being the work of males, original sin was traced to the female.

The one person who will never leave us, whom we will never lose, is ourself. Learning to love our female selves is where our search for love must begin.

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

The overwhelming female protest to the presidential election perhaps is an accurate indicator of how essential it is to understand women, the issues they face, and the need to address women's rights, not just nationally, but globally.

The preoccupation with the choice of a mate both by male and female I regard as a continuing echo of the major selective force by which we have evolved.

The last western society to worship female powers was Minoan Crete. And significantly, that fell and did not rise again.

The male, for all his bravado and exploration, is the loyal one, the one who generally feels love. The female is skilled at betrayal and torture and damnation.

The male is a biological accident: the Y (male) gene is an incomplete X (female) gene, that has an incomplete set of chromosomes.

The male is an incomplete female, a walking abortion, aborted at the gene stage

The manlier you are, the harder it is to understand what a woman wants: there is not a hint of female brain in you.

The man of genius possesses, like everything else, the complete female in himself; but woman herself is only a part of the Universe, and the part can never be the whole; femaleness can never include genius. This lack of genius on the part of woman is inevitable because woman is not a monad, and cannot reflect the Universe.

The man takes a body that is not his, claims it, sows his so-called seed, reaps a harvest - he colonizes a female body, robs it of its natural resources, controls it.

The men who espoused unpopular causes may have been considered misguided, but they were rarely attacked for their morals or their masculinity. Women who did the same thing were apt to be denounced as harlots or condemned for being unfeminine - an all-purpose word that was used to describe almost any category of female behavior of which men disapproved.

The nationalism I seek is one that decolonizes the brown and female body as it decolonizes the brown and female earth

The problem of the female body is not something that I've studied, but my memoir does treat that theme.

The problem isn't that Silicon Valley is keeping women down or not doing enough to encourage female entrepreneurs. The opposite is true. No, the problem is that not enough women want to become entrepreneurs.

The range of variation in the female far exceeds the range of variation in the male.

The priests are debarred from female society, nor is any woman permitted to enter the religious houses.

The Ragamuffin rabble are the unsung assembly of saved sinners who are little in their own sight, conscious of their brokenness and powerlessness before God, and who cast themselves on His mercy. Startled by the extravagant love of God, they do not require success, fame, wealth, or power to validate their worth.  Their spirit transcends all distinctions between the powerful and powerless, educated and illiterate, billionaires and bag ladies, high-tech geeks and low-tech nerds, males and females, the circus and the sanctuary.

The ratio of male to female characters in movies has been exactly the same since 1946. So if you've ever had people say, you know, "It's better now, it's all changed, it's all different," it's not, it hasn't. Not yet.

There are a couple of poems I've written with masculine muses, very often the muse to me is a female.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

There are a lot of white female-led startups that are raising money without a tech founder. At the core of it is value.

There are a lot of female directors in Lebanon but we can't really talk about a true film industry, it's still very small. But we do have a few female directors.

The real female should be partly male and the real male should be partly female anyway.

There are many amazing female directors that made work in more skewed times, so we should be thankful for the boundaries they pushed through.

There aren't very many notable Native American female figures historically. That's the way that it's been. Pocahontas and Sacajawea.

There are male as well as female gossips.

There are so many incredible women on TV right now. Viola Davis, Kerry Washington, Ellen Pompeo. These are really incredible female leads that are on network TV. Hopefully, with what I do, and the generation of actors I'm working with, that'll make the lives of other girls coming in after me even better. I hope to aim for that.

There are so many female directors coming into the industry and a lot of them have important stories they want to tell that seem to fall a little bit more on the indie level.

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.

There can be no spirituality, no sanctity, no truth without the female sex.

Therefore God's universal law Gave to the man despotic power Over his female in due awe, Not from that right to part an hour, Smile she or lour.

There has never been a female director who has won an Oscar. There has only been one woman who won at the Cannes Film Festival.

There are clear differences between and some- and there may be protective factors in a female brain.

There is no question there are differences between male and female brains. They are called sexual dimorphisms and you can point to different anatomical structures.

There is not one female comic who was beautiful as a little girl.

There is something to be said for the power of figureheads. After Hillary Clinton became secretary of state, a record number of countries posted female ambassadors to the U.S. - some of whom have dubbed this 'the Hillary effect.'

There is only one good sex. The female one.

There have been so many nations around the world that have had female leaders, including India.

There's a reason why at most major universities and colleges the female-male enrollment is so out of whack. Thirty-five percent male versus 65% female. It used to be just the exact opposite. There's a reason.

The requirements of health, and the style of female attire which custom enjoins, are in direct antagonism to each other.

There's a sense of productivity which cripples us terribly. We either have to be doing something worthwile or not. We are back to our little binary male-female code.

There's no way you can use water to collect waste in zero gravity. So, basically, our toilet on shuttle operations is a vacuum cleaner. The urinal looks like a Shop-Vac hose. It has different-shaped fronts on it for males and females to use. The urine is sucked down that hose and goes into a tank.