Female Quotes - Page 21

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

When looking at female body builders and reading about the industry and the culture, their bodies just break down. They end up having to get breast implants and not having menstrual cycles. The obsession of pushing your physical self way beyond what nature is expecting is really interesting. I liked the idea of these women; it's their career, but it's also their obsession.

I'm reminded of a female patient who was particularly aroused by the shape of her husband's shoulder. And this hint of perversion should ideally remain a secret for both partners.

The sexual revolution produced cultural convulsions that were unparalleled in the 20th century. The female sex was historically sexualized and required to have orgasms for the first time. Sexual "deviants," particularly homosexuals, achieved partial emancipation.

Hollywood is more concerned about its male actors being in shape than its female actors.

Female friendships are important because they help define us in a particular time and place.

I've always written stories from female perspectives. That it's one of the reasons I write, to have that experience.

I tend to lean toward female leads who have their guard up, their spikes out.

And also I think particularly as a female, you're taught to be defensive your whole life. You're taught not to be aggressive.

When the charge first came up, I hated black women. Then, going to trial, I started seeing the black women that was helping me. It's mostly black female guards. They treat me with human respect.

James Patterson has a way with female characters. He understands women in a way that a lot of male writers don't.

Women were wearing the men's button-downs so I added men's touches into women's shirts. They're basically the same - just sexier. They're reshaped to the female body.

He was on his knees before this female, and he'd gladly stay there for the rest of his life.

The conversation of human beings seldom interested him, but it crossed his mind that the males and females always got along best when neither actually listened fully to what the other one was saying.

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

I don't know why I got reborn as a female. Maybe in my past life I had some sympathy or something for women, but I certainly wasn't a female last time.

I'm glad that I'm female.

I think we females have a lot of work to do for each other.

It's not a lack of competence that is preventing the [Barack] Obama administration from stopping these attacks. It is political correctness. We didn't monitor the Facebook posting of the female San Bernardino terrorist. She made a public call to jihad, and they didn't target it.

Guinevere is not the Morgan type, where she's sultry and she knows she has this incredible female energy that she can use and utilize, and she's not necessarily used to having this power over men.

What happens to each of my female heroes, certainly, is they find something bigger than themselves that they are honored to serve. It's not giving up your family.

I think the culture today is very, very different from what it was in the '60s, and I feel lucky that I grew up at a time when I had these very strong female role models.

I am very aware of being black and female because that's what I am.

Approximately seventy percent of the female population is on a diet at any given time. More women diet than vote.

To be unwed and female was to succumb to an illness with only one known cure: marriage.