Female Quotes - Page 13

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

It's fine to dress in polka dots and pink crinoline if you want. What I recoil from is the idea that that alone is the only way to be female.

Deeds are males, words females are.

Hegel held that the two sexes were of necessity different, the one being active and the other passive, and of course the female would be the passive one.

I would say I'm pretty well at ease with my sexuality, but I'm an individual before I am a female.

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.

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

I've always read broadly: literary fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, chick lit, historical, dystopian, nonfiction, memoir. I've even read Westerns. I prefer female protagonists.

We are born male or female, but not masculine or feminine.

I'm more of an 'erotic clown,' it doesn't fall into the female category.

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

My poetry definitely comes out of a female body.

Silence is deeply woven into the fabric of female experience.

Women in Jordan are participating in all aspects of civil as well as political life - as female judges, parliamentarians, businesswomen. And the evolution will continue. This is not something that happens overnight.

A girl should never disguise the fact that she's a girl. It's a lot easier to convince a man that you're a fascinating female if you look the part.

Neither Western donor countries like the U.S. nor poor recipients like Cameroon care much about Africans who are poor, rural and female

I had to educate myself about female circumcision, about the clitoris, about sexology. We studied gynecology only. Pregnancy, maternal care, etc.

I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.

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

It's good that people come to the shows because there's nothing fashionable about Swans. Never has been, really. We've never been part of a scene. So the people that come are really there for the music. Fortunately, there's a lot of young people and a burgeoning female contingent, which is good as well.

I would like Martin Scorsese to be interested in a female character once in a while, but I don’t know if I’ll live that long.

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.

The world needs scientists, engineers - and if a brain is qualified to do such work, it should be encouraged, not smothered because it is a female brain.

[When asked how it felt to be a female prime minister:] I don't know: I've never experienced the alternative.

People always ask how there are female priests, but in this world there are.